About me

until 2003: studies of physics at the RWTH Aachen University

2004 to 2007: Ph. D. in physics at the Chair of Biophysics at the Ruhr University Bochum

2008 to 2009: Assistant to the CEO of S.A.G. Solarstrom AG at the location of the subsidiary meteocontrol GmbH in Augsburg, Germany

2010 to Feb. 2013: Head of technical operations management at meteocontrol GmbH

since March 2013: Professorship "Technologies of Renewable Energies" at the Environmental Campus Birkenfeld at Trier University of Applied Sciences. Main research areas: Energy model development, quality assurance of renewable energy systems. Vice Dean of the department of Environmental Planning & Technology. Head of bachelor's program "Renewable Energy"

since Jan. 2019: Member of the Management Board of Ecoliance Rheinland-Pfalz e. V.

since April 2021: Head of the Executive Board of the Institute for Operations and Technology Management (IBT)

since Jan. 2022: Vice President for Research of the Trier University of Applied Sciences

Prof. te Heesen is a member of the following institutions and a registered energy auditor:

• Energy auditor according to DIN EN 16247-1
• IEEE CIS Task Force Computational Intelligence in the Energy Domain
• COST Action PEARL PV 
• Member of the reviewer board of the journal "Energies"
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sonnenenergie e. V. (DGS)

•     Teaching Award of the Trier University of Applied Sciences 2018

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