Team

Prof. Dr. Lion Hirth is founder and director of Neon. He is also assistant professor at Hertie School of Governance, a public policy school and research fellow at MCC, a think tank. He is an energy economist and expert in wind and solar power, power market modeling, and electricity market design. Previously, Lion spent five years with the Swedish utility Vattenfall, where he was concerned with long-term price projections. His latest projects were a model-based assessment of system-friendly wind power for the International Energy Agency, the construction of an open data platform for the German government, and wholesale power price modeling for the Swedish electricity trade association. He also consults the German government on wholesale and balancing market design. Lion acts as secretary of Strommarkttreffen, a network of energy professionals in science, policy, and industry. He has developed and maintains the open-source power market model EMMA. Lion holds a Ph.D. in energy economics, a Diploma in economics, and a Magister in political science. His academic articles, published inter alia in Energy Economics, The Energy Journal, and Applied Energy, have won several awards (certificate) and are heavily cited. Lion has a daughter and lives in Berlin. Contact: hirth@neon-energie.de or +49-157-55 199 715.

Dr. Ingmar Schlecht is a director of Neon and policy consultant in the fields of market design, electricity market modelling and open data. Before starting to work at Neon, he finished his PhD in economics at University of Basel, where he studied electricity markets in the context of the energy transition and developed the DC load flow electricity market model Swissmod.

Jonathan Mühlenpfordt is a data specialist and programmer at Neon. He previously worked at NORD/LB, the European Parliament and the Lüneburg-Wolfsburg Chamber of Industry and Commerce. Jonathan holds a degree in economics and political science from University Lüneburg.

Juliane Reimann is responsible for Strommarkttreffen. She also works on re-analysis weather data and its application to energy system modeling. Juliane previously worked at the management consultancy CSP Consult & Strategy GmbH.