Dr. Diamantis Koutsandreas

Diamantis Koutsandreas is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Transformation Pathways at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). He holds a PhD in decision support models and multi-criteria methods for energy planning from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece. Before joining PIK, he was a postdoctoral researcher in integrated assessment modeling at Aalto University's School of Engineering, Finland, and a research scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria.

His research focuses on integrated assessment modeling of energy and climate strategies with an emphasis on technoeconomic, macroeconomic, and distributional impacts. He has extensive experience with open-source energy system modelling frameworks (e.g., OSeMOSYS and MESSAGEix) and Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) models (e.g., GTAP and GEM-E3). His research portfolio also includes time series forecasting and machine learning-based decision support. At PIK, he contributes to the NEWPATHWAYS and GeomClim projects, with a primary research focus on incorporating financial market imperfections into integrated assessment models.