Nick Harder

Data Scientist European Electricity Markets at TransnetBW

Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

About

Experience

  • Data Scientist European Energy Markets at TransnetBW GmbH
    Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr

    I am currently a member of the Market Development team within the Department of Energy and Balancing Markets at TransnetBW, a transmission system operator. My responsibilities encompass the analysis of both current market dynamics and prospective market developments.

  • Scientific Researcher at INATECH
    Dec 2025

  • Chair of Control and Integration of Grids, INATECH, University of Freiburg (6 yrs 9 mos)
    • Research Associate
      Oct 2019 - Dec 2025 · 6 yrs 3 mos

      Lead of the project ASSUME, developing open‑source software for electricity market design analysis (https://github.com/assume-framework/assume) Co‑lead and developer of the CO2Map.de, an open‑source platform visualizing regionalized CO2 electricity intensities in Germany (https://co2map.de) Implementation of reinforcement learning algorithms for agent‑based models Lecturer of the ”Energy Systems Modeling with Python” course Tutor for the ”Solar Energy Integration and Economics” course

    • Masters Student
      Apr 2019 - Sep 2019 · 6 mos

      Development of generic flexibility model using model predictive control Simulations on flexibility quantification Sensitivity analysis of flexibility availability

  • Student Research Assistant at Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems
    Jan 2018 - Mar 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos

    Investigation of atomic layer deposition processes Research on experimental tandem perovskite solar cells Measurements of laser finger contacting for solar cells Optimization of laser contacting processes