Timon Wehnert has been working in energy and climate policy research for more than twenty years. Since 2011 he has been working as a senior researcher at the Wuppertal Institute, Germany. Since 2022 he co-leads the Research Unit International Energy Transitions of the Department Future Energy and Industrial Systems.

His current work focuses on structural change and regional innovation systems in the context of climate policy-driven transition processes, such as the phase-out of coal and decarbonisation of the industrial sector. Among other issues, he coordinates the activities of the Wuppertal Institute within the framework of the Secretariat of the Coal Regions in Transition Initiative of the European Commission and Wuppertal Institute’s activities on Just Transition in coal regions globally.

Prior to his engagement with the Wuppertal Institute (between 1999 and 2011) he was a research fellow at the Institute for Futures Studies and Technology Assessment (IZT), Berlin, working on matters relating to sustainable energy systems: long-term energy foresight and scenarios for the energy sector, potentials of renewable energy technologies as well as European energy research policy.