Chen ("Chris") Gong is a postdoctoral researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK).
Dr. Gong was trained as a physicist at California Institute of Technology and University of Potsdam. She is currently part of the energy system lab and global energy transition team at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. Her work currently focuses on the energy transition pathways for China and India as well as technological pathway globally for the energy transition. In the past she has worked on two topics: 1) modeling power sector transition in long-term climate mitigation models, iteratively coupling integrated assessment model REMIND to an hourly power sector model DIETER (DIW), 2) national transition pathway for China.
She is currently working on two projects, with Indian and Chinese stakeholders respectively on designing nationally determined contribution pathways (NDCs), and on technology choice related to electrification and hydrogen using hourly high resolution models. In addition, she is working on China's power sector transition scenario with REMIND and hourly multi-nodal power sector model PyPSA.
Her research interests are international and national climate policies, international collaborations on achieving ambitious climate pathways, international political economy, energy system modelling, sector coupling, renewable energy storage, hydrogen and industrial energy transition. She is part of the China power sector project PANDA (with Energy Foundation), Indian green growth pathway (ClimateWorks), 1.5 National Pathways (Climate Analytics), EU horizon projects NEWPATHWAYS, COMMITTED and ELEVATE, Germany's energy transition project ARIADNE and Germany-Sino collaboration project INTEGRATE.
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam, Germany
I received a double degree in B.A. in mathematics from Ohio Wesleyan University and a B.Sc. degree in applied physics from California Institute of Technology in 2012. I received a M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in Physics titled "Synchronization of coupled phase oscillators" [link] from the University of Potsdam in 2021.
Mitigation scenario pathway modeling
- Power sector model and transition scenario using REMIND and PyPSA
- Renewable energy integration, sector-coupling
- Integrated Assessment Model (IAM) REMIND
- China and India's energy transition pathway
Computational methodologies and physics
- Soft-coupling optimization problems of two-scales
- Network dynamics, coupled oscillatory systems
- Nonlinear dynamics and dynamical systems
- Theoretical astrophysics
- Theoretical biophysics
Political economy
- Greening the growth models of world economies (collaboration with Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung and Brown University)
- C. C. Gong, F. Ueckerdt, C. Bertram, Y. Yin, D. Bantje, R. Pietzcker, J. Hoppe, R. Hasse, M. Pehl, S. Moreno-Leiva, J. Duerrwaechter, J. Muessel, G. Luderer, “Multi-level emission impacts of electrification and coal pathways in China's netzero transition“, preprint (2024)
- C. C. Gong, F. Ueckerdt, R. Pietzcker, A. Odenweller, W.-P. Schill, M. Kittel,
G. Luderer, “Bidirectional coupling of the long-term integrated assessment model REgional Model of INvestments and Development (REMIND) v3.0.0 with the hourly power sector model Dispatch and Investment Evaluation Tool with Endogenous Renewables (DIETER) v1.0.2”,
Geoscientific Model Development, 16, 4977–5033, (2023) - L. Baumstark, N. Bauer, [et al., including C. C. Gong, “REMIND2.1: transformation
and innovation dynamics of the energy-economic system within climate and sustainability
limits”, Geosci. Model Dev., Issue 14, 6571–6603 (2021) - C. C. Gong, R. Toenjes and A. Pikovsky, “Coupled Moebius Maps as a Tool to Model Kuramoto
Phase Synchronization”, Physical Review E, Vol 102, Issue 2, Page 022206 (2020) - C. C. Gong and A. Pikovsky, “Low-Dimensional Dynamics for Higher Order Harmonic Globally Coupled Phase Oscillator Ensemble”, Physical Review E, Vol 100, Issue 6, Page 062210 (2019)
- F. Peter, C. C. Gong and A. Pikovsky, “Microscopic Cross-correlations in the Kuramoto Model of Coupled Oscillators”, Physical Review E, Vol 100, Issue 3, Page 032210 (2019)
- C. C. Gong, C. Zheng, R. Toenjes and A. Pikovsky, “Repulsively Coupled Kuramoto-Sakaguchi Phase Oscillators Ensemble Subject to Common Noise”, Chaos, Vol 29, Issue 3, Page 033127 (2019)
- C. C. Gong, N. I. Libeskind, E. Tempel, Q. Guo, S. Gottlöber, G. Yepes, P. Wang, J. Sorce and M. Pawlowski, “The Origin of Lopsided Satellite Galaxy Distribution in Galaxy Pairs”, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 488, Issue 3, Pages 3100--3108 (2019)
- C. C. Gong and S. Klumpp, “Modelling sRNA-Regulated Plasmid Maintenance”, PLoS ONE 12(1): e0169703 (2017)
- Seminar on New Research in Energy System Modelling, Teaching Assistant, Technical University Berlin, 2021/2022 Winter Semester, 2022/2023 Winter Semester
- Energy and Climate Change, Teaching Assistant, Technical University Berlin, 2020 Spring Semester
- Python Programming, Teaching Assistant, University of Potsdam, 2017/2018 Winter Semester
- Chaos Theory, Teaching Assistant, University of Potsdam, 2016 and 2017 Summer Semesters
- Nonlinear Dynamics, Teaching Assistant, University of Potsdam, 2017 Summer Semester
- Theoretical Physics II - Electrodynamics, Teaching Assistant, University of Potsdam, Oct. 2016 to Feb. 2017
- Ph7 Physics Laboratory - Experiments in Atomic and Nuclear Physics, Lab Teaching Assistant, Caltech, Apr. 2012 to June 2012
