Johannes Reichl is the scientific director of the Department of Energy Economics. He earned his PhD in Statistics from Johannes Kepler University Linz in 2009, and obtained his habilitation in Econometrics in 2022. His research focuses on developing methods and tools for a better understanding of the role of households in the energy and climate sector, as well as methods and tools for analyzing the economic impacts of new technologies on our daily lives and on the economy. He has led numerous research projects on energy and climate topics, and is currently the coordinator of the H2020 projects CAMPAIGNers and eCREW, was the coordinator of the project PEAKapp (H2020), the vice-coordinator of the FP7 project SESAME, and the legal, ethical, data protection, and policy officer of the FP7 project SPARKS. He is a Lead Author of the 2nd Austrian Assessment Report on Climate Change and is involved in the BRIDGE initiative of the European Commission.