Lukas Schirren

I am a researcher at Imperial College London in the Department of Chemical Engineering, supervised by Prof Adam Hawkes. My work focuses on modelling future energy systems with an emphasis on industrial decarbonisation. Part of CCG, SHIELD, and HI-ACT.

Current Research Projects

• Reconstruction of Power and Industry in Ukraine: Modelling short- and long-term reconstruction of the energy system of Ukraine, with an extended version of PyPSA-Eur. This is part of the SHIELD project.

• Defossilising Petrochemical Production: Analysing the global petrochemical industry with a focus on European value chains, exploring technology pathways, infrastructure needs, and policy instruments for defossilisation.

• Future Electricity Prices in Europe: Analysing industrial tariffs, wholesale price formation, and the role of taxes, levies, and negative prices in a decarbonised power system.