Christian Sölch

Dr. Christian Sölch
Phone +49 (0)911 5302 95157
Fax +49 (0)911 5302 95168
Room 5.116
Office hours by appointment
Email christian.soelch@fau.de
About
Christian Sölch has been a research associate at the Chair of Economic Theory at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) since 2013. Until the end of 2016, he worked at the Center for Applied Energy Research (ZAE) Bavaria within the project “Smart Grid Solar” and until the end of 2021 at the Energy Campus Nürnberg (EnCN) within the research area “Energy Market Design”. He studied business mathematics with a focus on optimization and process management at FAU and at Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María in Valparaìso, Chile. He completed his PhD in 2019 on “The impact of market design on transmission and generation investments in liberalized electricity markets with zonal pricing”. Since then, he has been working as a post-doc in various projects and committees, including as a collaborator of Prof. Grimm in the Expert Commission on the Energy of the Future Monitoring Process. Currently he is head of the research area “Energy Market Design and Policy”.
Research interests
  • Energy Economics
  • Energy market designs and investment decisions
  • Operations Research in Energy Economics
  • Industrial Organization
  • Experimental Economics
Teaching
  • Seminar Energy Markets (Bechelor & Master)
  • Supervision of bachelor, master and project theses on energy market topics

Before:

  • Advanced Game Theory (Master)
  • Advanced Industrial Organization (Master)
  • Quantitative Methods in Energy Market Modelling (Master)
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