Roland Zink received his doctorate at the University Passau on the subject of the transition of the energy sector and the designing of a sustainable energy supply under a spatial perspective. Since 2013 he has been professor for Spatial Sciences and Information Technology at Deggendorf Institute of Technology, scientific head of the research group “Applied Energy Research” at the Technology Campus Freyung and also spokesman of the research group “Energy Systems and Technologies”. Besides the further development of spatio-temporal energy models, his current research focuses on innovative opportunities for participation of stakeholders in spatial planning processes through new media.
Previously published articles in the Bavarian Journal of Applied Sciences:
Modell zur regionalen Optimierung der Stromversorgung aus Photovoltaik (Issue 1 / December 2015)