• 2017- present

Munich School of Public Policy at the Technical University of Munich, Chair of Environmental and Climate Policy

Senior lecturer and research group leader

• 2012-2017        

Freie Universität Berlin, Environmental Policy Research Centre

Senior Researcher / managing director with teaching duties

• 2009-2012

German Federal Government's Advisory Council on the Environment

Research assistant

• 2003-2008

Freie Universität Berlin

PhD in Political Science

• 1999-2012        

Center for Technology and Society at TU Berlin

Scientific Associate

• 1993 – 1996

Environmental Conflict Resolution, Mediation LtD Berlin

• 1988-1993

Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Political and Social Sciences, Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science

Diploma in Political Science

Winter semester 2017/2018

• Exercise course: Comparative policy analysis
• Bachelor: Energy Transition in Germany and Europe
• Elective module Master: Energy Transformations and Societal and Political Responses

Summer semester 2018

• Exercise course: Policy field analysis advanced training
• Bachelor: Policy fields of sustainability
• Elective module Master: Governance of big transformations: Environmental and Climate Transformation

Winter semester 2018/2019

• Exercise course: Policy Field Analysis and Comparison I
• Elective module Master: „Ethics and Politics of Existential Global Risks”
• Master: Introductory Lecture Politics and Technology

Summer semester 2019

• Exercise course: Policy field analysis advanced training
• Bachelor: Governance in a multi-level system
• Elective module Master: Environment and Climate Transformation

Winter semester 2019/2020

• Exercise course: Analysis and comparison of political systems, basics
• Master: Introductory Lecture Politics and Technology
• Elective module Master: Energy Transformation

Summer semester 2020

• Exercise course: Policy field analysis advanced training
• Bachelor: Governance in a multi-level system
• Elective module Master: Environment and Climate Transformation

Winter semester 2020/2021

• Exercise course: Analysis and comparison of political systems, basics
• Elective module Master: Ethics and Politics of Existential Global Risks

Summer semester 2021

• Exercise course: Policy field analysis advanced training
• Bachelor: Energy transition in Germany and Europe
• Elective module Master: Environment and Climate Transformation

Winter semester 2021/2022

• Exercise course: Analysis and comparison of political systems, basics
• Master: Introductory Lecture Politics and Technology
• Elective module Master: Energy Transformation

Summer semester 2022

• Exercise course: Policy field analysis advanced training
• Bachelor: Energy transition in Germany and Europe
• Elective module Master: Environment and Climate Transformation

Winter semester 2022/2023

• Exercise course: Analysis and comparison of political systems, basics
• Elective module Master: Ethics and Politics of Existential Global Risks

Summer semester 2023

• Exercise course: Policy field analysis advanced training
• Bachelor: Energy transition in Germany and Europe

• Power2U; funded by BMWi, 2021-2024

Empowerment of households to participate in decarbonization - processed in a transdisciplinary research perspective (psychology, economics and political science).

• ARIADNE; funded by BMBF, 2020-2023

Collaborative national project to shape the German energy transition; Examination of local negotiation arenas with a focus on the distribution of benefits and burdens in society and the role of intermediary, coordinating and supporting actors and organizations.

• Trans4Real; funded by BMWi, 2021 – 2026

Scientific transfer research for the real-world laboratories of the energy transition on sector coupling and hydrogen technologies; Based on (inter)national developments, various hydrogen paths, future business models as well as socio-technical and regulatory framework conditions for the future marketability of green hydrogen in the Federal Republic of Germany are analyzed.

• Ohlhorst, Dörte (2016). „Germany’s Energy Transition Policy between National Targets and Decentralized Responsibilities.” Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences, vol. 12, no. 4, 2016, pp. 303-322.
• Vogelpohl, Thomas; Ohlhorst, Dörte; Bechberger, Mischa, Hirschl, Bernd (2017). German renewable energy policy – independent pioneering versus creeping Europeanization? In: Solorio, Israel, Jörgens, Helge (Hrsg.). A Guide to EU Renewable Energy Policy. Comparing Europeanization and Domestic Policy Change in EU Member States. Cheltenham, UK/ Northampton MA, USA: Edward Elgar. S.45-64.
• Ohlhorst, Dörte (2018). Akteursvielfalt und Bürgerbeteiligung im Kontext der Energiewende in Deutschland – das EEG und seine Reformen. In: Radtke, Jörg; Holstenkamp, Lars (Herausgeber): Energiewende und Partizipation – Transformationen von Gesellschaft und Technik. Springer VS, Wiesbaden, S. 101-124.
• Krug, Michael; Ohlhorst, Dörte (2019). Optimizing the Local Embedding of Renewable Energy Plants. In: Journal of Environmental Policy and Administration. Vol.27, Special Issue, pp. 77-102.
• Ohlhorst, Dörte (2019). Biographie der Energiewende im Stromsektor. In: Canzler, Weert; Radke, Jörg (Hrsg.): Energiewende. Eine sozialwissenschaftliche Einführung. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. S. 97-122.
• Ohlhorst, Dörte (2019). Energiewende im Wärmesektor – noch ein langer Weg. In: Canzler, Weert; Radke, Jörg (Hrsg.): Energiewende. Eine sozialwissenschaftliche Einführung. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. S. 171-192.
• Gundula Hübner, Johannes Pohl, Jan Warode, Boris Gotchev, Patrizia Nanz, Dörte Ohlhorst, Michael Krug, Steven Salecki und Wolfgang Peters (2020). Akzeptanzfördernde Faktoren erneuerbarer Energien. Bonn/ Bad Godesberg: Bundesamt für Naturschutz. BfN Skripten 551.
• Ohlhorst, Dörte (2020). Germany: from feed-in-tariffs to auctions and the question of diverse actors. In: Burger, C., Froggatt, A., Mitchell, C. and Weinmann, J. (eds.) Decentralised Energy — a Global Game Changer. Pp. 82–100. London: Ubiquity Press.
• Reitz, Sybille; Goshen, Lauren; Ohlhorst, Dörte (2022). Trade-Offs in German Wind Energy Expansion: Building Bridges Between Different Interests, Values and Priorities. In: Energy, Sustainability and Society volume 12, Article number: 39 (2022).
• Ohlhorst, Dörte; Schreurs, Miranda A. (2023). “Global Sustainable Cities: Berlin Aims at Climate Neutrality,” in Danielle Spiegel-Feld, Katrina Miriam Wyman, and John J. Coughlin, Global Sustainable Cities: City Governments and Our Environmental Future.   New York: New York University Press. Chapter 13. Pp 234-258.