Dr. Benjamin Lux

Since 2017, Dr. Benjamin Lux has been working as a researcher and project manager in the Business Unit Electricity Markets and Infrastructures within the Department of Energy Policy and Energy Markets. He took over the position as coordinator of the Business Unit in February 2025. 

His work focuses on the modeling of the supply-side of the European energy system, specializing in the representation of power-to-X technologies. 

Benjamin Lux studied physics and management at the Universities of Ulm and Leeds (UK). In 2023, he completed his PhD in Economics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). His dissertation entitled «Supplying Europe with Hydrogen and Negative Emissions - A Model-Based Assessment» addressed the interactions of hydrogen systems and the supply of negative emissions via Direct Air Carbon Capture and Storage (DACCS) with the conversion sector in the context of a greenhouse gas-neutral European energy system.