Rebecca Peters
Address:
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Environmental Systems Analysis
Schnarrenbergstr. 94-96
D-72076 Tübingen
Office: 4U12, Schnarrenbergstr. 94-96
phone: +(49) 7071 / 29 - 72495
email: rebecca.peters@uni-tuebingen.de
Main research interests:
Renewable electricity development in Africa
- Spatially explicit and open-accessible data on renewable power plants in Africa (RePP Africa)
- Implementation of sustainable renewable based electricity systems in Africa
- Electricity access in rural and urban areas
- Ecological, socioeconomic, and political impacts of solar, wind and hydropower plants
- Potential for wind, solar and hydropower (run-of-river, pumped storage)
- Optimized renewable electricity systems that relieve the dam building pressure on African rivers
Scientific Career
Since 09/2020
Doctoral Candidate, University of Tuebingen, Germany
Sustainable Renewable Energy Development in Africa (Environmental Systems Analysis Research group)
11/2020
Sustainability Award for Theses (University of Tuebingen)
04/2017 – 03/2020
M. Sc. Geoecology, University of Tuebingen, Germany
Key Themes: Ecosystem research, ecology of the tropics (Latin America); Sustainable development and ecosystem management; Climate change adaptation, biodiversity and nature conservation; Environmental law; Thesis: Supporting sustainable hydropower plant site and size selection in the Vjosa Catchment (Balkan Region) – Evaluation of planned hydropower projects under selected socioeconomic, ecological, and political indicators for improving sustainable decision-making processes (Environmental Systems Analysis Research group)
10/2013 – 03/2017
B. Sc. Geoecology, University of Tuebingen, Germany
Key Themes: Ecological interactions between soil-vegetation-water-climate and their effects on humans; Human impacts on ecosystems; Climate change and adaptation, biodiversity; Thesis: Herbivorous Damage along a Climate Gradient in Chile (Earth Shape, Plant Ecology research group)
06/2015 - 12/2015
Exchange Semester, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
Key Themes: Regional impacts on global climate change; Biodiversity, nature conservation and development in Colombia