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Verena van Zyl-Bulitta

 

PhD student at the Chair of Sustainability and Transitions Research

Institute for Environmental Social Sciences and Geography
Tennenbacher Str. 4
D-79106 Freiburg

1st floor, room 01015

 

Research

  • Dissertation topic: Navigating energy transitions across the Global North-South divide: Perspectives onto co-prosumption and bridges towards modern commons governance

 

Publications

  • van Zyl-Bulitta, V.H.; Patt, A.; Mudombi, S.; Fabricius, C. (2023). Unintended consequences of climate change adaptation: African case studies and typologies on pitfalls and windfalls, Development Southern Africa, Routledge.
  • Kouvara, A.; Priavolou, C.; Ott, D.; Scherer, P.; van Zyl-Bulitta, V.H. (2023). Circular, Local, Open: A Recipe for Sustainable Building Construction. Buildings 2023, 13, 2493.
  • van Zyl-Bulitta, V. H., Ritzel, C., Stafford, W., Wong, J. G. (2019), A compass to guide through the myriad of sustainable energy transition options across the global North-South divide, Energy, Special issue of BIWAES conference on Energy & Wellbeing, Volume 181, 307-320, ISSN 0360-5442.
  • Ritzel, C., Mann, S., & van Zyl Bulitta, V. (2022). Prosuming Alone or Together: A Bisectoral Approach to
    Conceptualizing the Commons Prosumer. International Journal of the Commons, 16(1), pp. 295–309.

 

Reports:

  • Ober, S., van Zyl-Bulitta, V. H., Wuntke, N., Reichmuth, M. (2022). Partizipative Technikfolgen-abschätzung eines zukünftigen Energiemarktdesigns, Kopernikus Projekt SynErgie.

 

Conference proceedings/ contributions:

  • van Zyl-Bulitta; V. H. (2019). Framing Commons for Society-Technology for Electric Infrastructure Supply
    Systems, Transdisciplinary Journal of Engineering & Science, ISSN: 1949-0569 online, Vol. 10, pp. 28-38.
  • van Zyl-Bulitta, V.H., Stafford, W.H.L., Wong, J.G. Navigating energy system options across the Global North-
    South, BIWAES Naples, September.
  • van Zyl-Bulitta, V.H., Kremers, E., Otte, R., Local mechanisms to support energy system balancing aligned to
    the current electricity grid state, BIWAES Naples, September.
  • van Zyl-Bulitta, V.H., Understanding the roles of co-prosumers beyond techno-social aspects in smart grids
    in respect of social resilience, Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy,
    Water, and Environment Systems, SDEWES2017, Dubrovnik.
  • van Zyl-Bulitta, V.H., Amigun, B., Brent, A. C., Towards a SADC model to assess financing options of
    renewable energy technologies, in: Energy and Sustainability 2009, WIT Press, pp. 91-102, ISBN: 978-1-
    84564-191-7.
  • van Zyl-Bulitta, V.H., Framing Commons for Society-Technology - at the interface of social-ecological and
    socio-technical systems, Atlas Conference on Transdisciplinary-Transnational-Transcultural (T 3 ), Cluj-Napoca,
    Romania, June.
  • van Zyl-Bulitta, V.H., The emperor's new clothes or sustainability in disguise – potentials for energy
    transition beyond voluntarism and compulsion, 6th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological
    Sustainability and Social Equity, Malmö, Sweden, August.
  • van Zyl-Bulitta, V.H., Cabotà, J. (2016), Pricing structures for energy co-prosumption: an agent-based model,
    Article and Poster presented at the Social Simulation Conference (SSC2016), Rome, September 2016.

 

Vita

Career history

10/2022 – 12/2022  Research associate at IASS Potsdam

10/2021 – 12/2021  Research associate at Reiner Lemoine Institute, Berlin

01/2019 – 06/2021  Research associate at IASS Potsdam (until 12/2020) and with BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg for DiDaT project

01/2016 – 11/2016  Research associate at Institute for applied informatics (InfAI), Leipzig

2008-2013             CSIR Stellenbosch research associate or consultant in projects on biomass co-firing (Eskom),  Biodiesel (BIOSSAM), Transnet, Gaia Carbon Sciences, Consulting and Analytical Services (CAS)

 

Academic education

2023 (April):   Change to Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, PhD study on the roles of co-prosumers and flexibilisation in the electricity system from a socio-technical and social-ecological perspective

2014-2023     PhD student at the universiy of Leipzig

2005-2007     Master studies (MComm) in Stellenbosch, faculty of economics, department of business management; Master thesis on pattern recognition in intraday financial market data of index- and exchange rates

2001-2004     BBA in international management (fields of concentration System Dynamics, finance, informatics), International University in Germany, Bruchsal