Michèle Knodt
@micheleknodt.bsky.social
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Professor of Political Science, TUDarmstadt Jean Monnet Professor, ad personam, Research: EU Governance, Multi-Level Governance, Climate and Energy Policy
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Solar storms create stunning auroras 🌌 — but they can also disrupt power grids ⚡, satellites 🛰️ & comms.
Great exchange with Juha-Pekka Luntama at ESA 🇪🇺 — excited to collaborate as @emergencity.de and DiReX @tuda.bsky.social on boosting resilience to space weather! #SpaceWeather #Aurora #Resilience
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🎓 It’s official – PhD completed!

Congratulations, Elisa, on this remarkable achievement!
Elisa explores how political actors navigate through the Covid and energy crisis.
We’re proud to celebrate this moment with you 🚀
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🛰 Raumfahrt & Resilienz? Klingt weit weg – ist aber nah dran.
Beim Besuch mit Innenminister Roman Poseck im @ESA/ESOC ging’s um Satelliten, Krisenvorsorge & digitale Sicherheit.
Mit unserem Zentrum Digital Resiclience Xchange (DiReX) bringen wir Forschung & Praxis zusammen. Danke für den Austausch!
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🌊 Floods don’t wait for interdepartmental emails.
New article out with @wibke_de_boer @Britta_Schmalz & me (@LOEWE_emergenCITY @TUDarmstadt): How internal coordination in local govs shapes flood resilience.
📄 Read the full article in Water (Open Access) lnkd.in/eK6hBxST
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⚡ Who to trade renewable energy with? It's more than just cost -check out our article and try our Dashbord:
"Navigating the selection of renewable energy trading partners: A multi-objective optimization approach" in Energy and Climate Change (2025)

👉 ttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.egycc.2025.100197
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🎭 When culture becomes a battleground…
At TU Darmstadt, Prof. Natalia Chaban Uni Canterbury, NZ, unpacked how EU heritage diplomacy and Global south narratives are being redefined by Russia’s war against Ukraine. Culture isn’t just soft power but a strategy.
#CulturalDiplomacy #Ukraine #EU
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Forschung trifft Spielfreude auf dem #Hessentag2025!
Mit #Krisopolis & Litfaßsäule 4.0 zeigen wir von #emergenCITY & #DiReX @tuda.bsky.social, wie Städte krisenfest werden.
Danke an Minister Gremmels & Ministerin Sinemus & Hans-Joachim Heist für den Besuch!
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🌍 Our first joint article on transformative climate law is out!
Law doesn’t just shape change – it changes, too.
Open access here 👉 eurup.lexxion.eu/article/EURU...
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📰 In der heutigen F.A.Z.: Unsere @ariadneprojekt.bsky.social Replik auf den Zwischenbericht der Initiative für einen handlungsfähigen Staat. Unsere Empfehlung: Eine interministerielle Arbeitsgruppe für bessere Klima- und Energiepolitik. zeitung.faz.net/faz/wirtscha...
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📢 New Ariadne Report: Creating Better Incentives for Renewable Hydrogen - that I co-authored with colleagues from TU Darmstadt and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) takes a close look at how the EU can better support the scale-up of #renewable #hydrogen.
Ariadne-Analysis: Hydrogen in the Reformed EU ETS – Implications for Competitiveness and Emissions Reductions | Ariadne
The use of renewable hydrogen is considered an important element for the decarbonization of sectors that are hard to electrify, such as the steel and chemical industry or aviation (European Commission...
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🔋 New Insight Paper out now!
What does it take to keep the grid stable in a system based on renewables? We took a closer look – from shrinking inertia to grid-forming converters.
Written by researchers from TU Darmstadt’s Integrated Energy Systems team @tuda.bsky.social.
👉 zenodo.org/records/1558...
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Excited to be part of the new Hessen Monitor – studying democracy, division & resilience in Hesse.
Backed by the Hessian Ministry, led by an amazing team at @tuda.bsky.social, colleagues from 5 unis at Hesse are teaming up.
For a stronger democracy!
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New open-access book! Teaching IR in Wartime – co-edited with Kateryna Zarembo & Maksym Yakovlyev. How do you teach IR under bombs, in war, through trauma? Experiences of University Lecturers during Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine www.ibidem.eu/out/media/vl...
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What an inspiring day! 🚀 We had the pleasure of welcoming a fantastic group of students from the University of Victoria, CA. Together with students from @tuda.bsky.social, they joined my lecture on “EU Energy Policy”. Powerful reminder of the value of international academic exchange!
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Valuable impulses and strong momentum at #emergenCITYWeek 2025 @tuda.bsky.social!
Was a pleasure to present our work and vision behind DiReX, our new center for transferring digital resilience research. Big thanks to our advisory board for inspiring feedback and new perspectives.
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Thanks for having me at the Bundeskongress of Scientists 4 Future 2025!
I had the pleasure of giving a talk on "Trump 2.0 and the Impact on EU Climate Policy", together with the brilliant Terenzio Facchinetti.
Great discussions, shows how science and policy need to stay connected in turbulent times.
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170 Jahre Litfaßsäule – jetzt digital & krisenfest!
Heute haben wir - @emergencity.de @tuda.bsky.social - & Ströer die Litfaßsäule 4.0 vorgestellt: energieautarke Kommunikation im Blackout. Dank an hess. Wiss.minister T. Gremmels, Digitalministerin Prof. K. Sinemus für die Untersützung!
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#UrbaneResilienz entsteht im Dialog. Beim Sounding Board zum Digitalen #Heinerblock diskutierten wir von #emergenCITY #DiReX @tuda.bsky.social in der @schaderstiftung.bsky.social #DTDT25 mit Verwaltung, Einsatzkräften & Unternehmen, wie unsere Technologieinnovationen Städte krisenfest machen.
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Beim Ariadne-Konsortialtreffen in Potsdam bringen wir unsere Analysen @tuda.bsky.social zu Wasserstoffverteilnetzen und Koordination der Energietransformation in die wissenschaftliche Diskussion ein. Starker interdisziplinärer Austausch zur Energiewende! #AriadneProjekt #Energiewende #Wissenschaft
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Wir freuen uns, dass unsere Arbeit in emergenCITY und zukünftig in DiReX mit unterschiedlichen Krisenszenarien - von lang anhaltenden Stromausfälle, über die Klimakrise bis hin zu hybriden Bedrohungen - in einem nationalen Zentrum für digitale Resilienz in Katastrophen weitergeführt werden.
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🎉🆕👉 Die Forschung des LOEWE-Zentrums @emergencity.de, einer Forschungskooperation unter Federführung der TU Darmstadt, soll durch den Aufbau eines nationalen Zentrums für digitale Resilienz in Katastrophen in Darmstadt verstetigt werden.
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Für mehr Schutz von Infrastrukturen wie Telekommunikation und IT im Krisenfall: Innenministerin Faeser und Hessens Digitalministerin Sinemus unterzeichneten die Einrichtung des ersten nationalen Zentrums für digitale Resilienz in Katastrophen. Es soll in Darmstadt entstehen.

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Pünktlich zur #Bundestagswahl2025 haben Jörg Kemmerzell und ich in unserem Papier die Energiepolitik der Parteien analysiert – mit Blick auf potentielle Koalitionen und deren Auswirkungen auf die Energiepolitik der nächsten Wahlperiode. Details hier: tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/29407/
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Special Issue „Teaching International Relations in Wartime“ published in the ibidem-Verlag "Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society."

Ed. Kateryna Zarembo, @micheleknodt.bsky.social and Maksym Yakovlyev.

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Neues Special Issue von Prof. Knodt and Dr. Zarembo zu Teaching International Relations in Wartime
www.politikwissenschaft.tu-darmstadt.de
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Congratulations to Rainer Hofmann: Winner of the Master's Thesis Award in Energy and Climate Policy Transformation of the Department of History and Social Sciences at Technische Universität Darmstadt! Outstanding work, Rainer! Your topic: #EU regulates, US acts pragmaticly in #hydrogen policy.
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🚀 Excited to share my interview with energate, where I look at how iron as an energy storage solution can complement hydrogen and play a key role in the energy transition - in a CO₂-free, circular process.
👉https://www.energate-messenger.de/news/250498/eisen-ergaenzt-wasserstoff-als-energiespeicher