Dr. 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
09/2020 - 04/2024
Doctoral Researcher, University of Tuebingen, Germany
The impact of building or not building a dam: integrating River conservation and renewable electricity generation in Africa (supervision: Prof. Dr. Christiane Zarfl, Prof. Dr. Klement Tockner)
Peters, R., Berlekamp, J., Tockner, K., & Zarfl, C. (2024). Electricity mix from renewable energies can avoid further fragmentation of African rivers. Sustainable Energy Research, 11(1), 1-16. Read
Peters, R., Berlekamp, J., Kabiri, C., Kaplin, B. A., Tockner, K., Zarfl, C. (2024). Sustainable pathways towards universal renewable electricity access in Africa. Nat Rev Earth Environ. Read
Peters, R., Berlekamp, J., Tockner, K., Zarfl, C. (2023). RePP Africa – a georeferenced and curated database on existing and proposed wind, solar, and hydropower plants. Sci Data 10(16). Read
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