Prof. Dr. Enver Doruk Özdemir

• Circular Design & Industrial Ecology
• Logistics/Supply Chain Management
• Sustainable production management

• SusTechnologies & Materials

Sustainability, technology assessment, energy technology and economics, renewable energies,

energy system analysis, alternative drives and fuels, life cycle analysis

since September 2025 Professor for "Sustainable Operations and Technologies" at the Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society, Ludwigshafen

2016 - 2025 Professor at the School of Engineering and Architecture - SRH University of Applied Sciences Heidelberg

2021-2025 Head of the International Business and Engineering program (Master)

2016-2021 Head of the Mechanical Engineering program (Bachelor)

2013 - 2016 Team Leader / Project Manager - German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Institute of Vehicle Concepts - Vehicle Systems and Technology Assessment Department

2010 - 2012 Group Leader Mobility with Renewable Energies - University of Stuttgart
Institute for Energy Economics and Rational Use of Energy

2005 - 2010 Research Assistant - University of Stuttgart
Institute of Energy Economics and Rational Use of Energy

2002 - 2005 Teaching Assistant - Middle East Technical University Department of Mechanical Engineering

• VDI - Association of German Engineers

Meng L., Liu J., Bi J., Özdemir E.D., Aksel M.H., 2023, "Multi-objective optimization of plate heat exchanger for commercial electric vehicle based on genetic algorithm", Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, Volume 41, 102629

Meng L., Liu J., Bi J., Özdemir E.D., Aksel M.H., 2022, "Signal-to-noise ratio analysis on saw-tooth vortex generator in vehicle radiators", Transactions of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering, Volume 47, Issue: 1, Pages 1-14

Kugler, U., Ehrenberger, S., Brost, M., Dittus H., and Özdemir, E.D., 2016, "Real-world driving, energy demand and emissions of electrified vehicles", Journal of Earth Sciences and Geotechnical Engineering, Volume 6, Issue 4 - (Special Issue: Transport and Air Pollution)

Redelbach, M., Özdemir, E.D., Friedrich, H.E., 2014, "Optimizing battery sizes of plug-in hybrid and extended range electric Vehicles for different user types", Energy Policy, Volume 73, Pages 158-168

Telsnig, T., Tomaschek, J., Özdemir, E.D., Bruchof, D., Fahl, U., Eltrop, L., 2013, "Assessment of selected CCS technologies in electricity and synthetic fuel production for CO2 mitigation in South Africa", Energy Policy, Volume 63, Pages 168-180

Özdemir, E.D., Hartmann, N., 2012, "Impact of electrical range and fossil fuel prices on the economics of plugin hybrid vehicles and GHG abatement costs in Germany", Energy Policy, Volume: 46 Pages: 185-192

Özdemir, E.D., Marathe, S. D., Tomaschek, J., Dobbins, A., Eltrop, L., 2012, "Economic and environmental analysis of solar water heater utilization in Gauteng province, South Africa", Journal of Energy in Southern Africa, Volume: 23 Issue: 2 Pages: 2-19

Tomaschek, J., Özdemir, E.D., Fahl, U., Eltrop, L., 2012, "Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Abatement Costs of Biofuel Production in South Africa", Global Change Biology Bioenergy, Volume: 4 Issue: 6 Pages: 799-810

Cardoso, R.S., Özdemir, E.D., Eltrop, L., 2012, "Environmental and economic assessment of international bioethanol trade options for the German transport sector", Biomass and Bioenergy, Vol. 36, Pages 20-30

Özdemir, E.D., Härdtlein, M., Jenssen, T., Zech, D., Eltrop, L., 2011, "A confusion of tongues or the art of aggregating indicators - Reflections on three projective methodologies on sustainability measurement of renewable heating technologies", Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, Volume 15, Issue 5, June 2011, Pages 2385-2396

Hartmann, N., Özdemir, E.D., 2011, "Impact of different utilization scenarios of electric vehicles on the German grid in 2030", Journal of Power Sources, Vol. 196, Issue: 4, Pages: 2311-2318

Goyns, P., Özdemir, E.D., 2011, "Characterizing emissions from private passenger vehicles using engine operating patterns", Int. J. Environmental Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 1, pages 83-99

Özdemir, E.D., Härdtlein, M., Eltrop, L., 2009, "Land substitution effects of biofuel side products and implications on the land area requirement for EU 2020 biofuel targets", Energy Policy, Volume 37, Issue 8, Pages 2986-2996

Özdemir, E.D., Aksel, M. H. and Sisman; T. Ç., 2007, "Implementation of Rotation into a Two dimensional Euler Solver", Modeling, Simulation & Control B, Vol. 76, No.6, Pages: 1-19

Book/book chapter:

Eltrop, L., Härdtlein, M., Jenssen, T., Özdemir, E.D., Henßler, M., Kruck, C., 2014, "Grundlagen und Planung von Bioenergieprojekten ", FNR, Weidner, Rostock, mediathek.fnr.de/media/downloadable/files/samples/d/a/dachleitfaden-bioenergie-web.pdf

Eltrop, L., Härdtlein, M., Jenssen, T., Henßler, M., Kruck, C., Özdemir, E.D., 2014, "Leitfaden Feste Biobrennstoffe" Chapters 1, 4, 5 and 6 in 2014 Edition, FNR, Weidner, Rostock, mediathek.fnr.de/leitfaden-bioenergie/book1.html

Özdemir, E.D., Marathe, S. D., 2013, "Ecological Footprint - the example of Gauteng region", Chapter 4 in "Glances at Renewable and Sustainable Energy, -Principles, approaches and methodologies for an ambiguous benchmark", Jenssen, T.(Editor), Springer

Telsnig, T., Özdemir, E.D., Eltrop, L., 2013, " The role of Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plants for South Africa's electricity generation", Chapter in "Energy and Sun", Eltrop, L., Telsnig, T., Fahl, U. (Editors), Jovis

Telsnig, T., Özdemir, E.D., Marathe, S.M., Tomaschek, J., Eltrop, L., 2013, " Solar energy technologies - GHG abatement costs and potentials for Gauteng", chapter in "Energy and Sun", Eltrop, L., Telsnig, T., Fahl, U. (Editors), Jovis

Conference presentations:

Kleiner, F., Özdemir, E. D., Schmid, S. Beermann, M., Catay, B. Moran, B. Lim, O.T., Friedrich, H. E., 2015, "Electrification of transport logistic vehicles: A techno-economic assessment of battery and fuel cell electric transporter", EVS28 International Electric Vehicle Symposium, May 3-6, KINTEX, Korea.

Eltrop, L., Özdemir, E.D., Annegarn, H., 2010, "Sustainable energy supply for the urban poor -technology evaluation and experiences from South Africa and Gauteng City Region (EnerKey-Project)", AAG Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., USA

Özdemir, E.D., Marathe, S.D., Tomaschek, J., Eltrop, L., 2009, "Role of solar water heaters in Gauteng province", South Africa, ISES Solar World Conference 2009, Johannesburg, South Africa

Özdemir, E.D., König, A,. Eltrop, L., 2008, "Evaluation of biogas and biomass gasification pathways", BIOGASTECH workshop, TÜBITAK MRC Gebze Campus, Turkey

Özdemir, E.D., Härdtlein, M., Eltrop, L., 2007, "Impact of the trade of biofuels to meet EU expansion targets on land requirements", 3rd Forum Bioenergie Proceedings, Berlin

Conference contributions:

Schimeczek, C., Özdemir, E.D., Schmid, S., 2016, Effectiveness of Monetary and Non-Monetary Incentives on the Purchase of Plug-in Electric Vehicles Considering National and Regional Frameworks Within the European Union, ETC - European Transport Conference 2016, October 5 - 7, 2016, Barcelona.

Özdemir, E. D., Kleiner, F., Beermann, M., Catay, B., Beers, E., Moran, B. Lim, O.T., Schmid, S., 2015, "Status and trends for electrified transport logistic vehicles", European Battery, Hybrid and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Congress Brussels, Belgium, December 2nd - 4th, 2015

Özdemir, E. D., Tosun, H. B., 2015, "Total Cost of Ownership Analysis for Passenger Cars in Turkey", International Association for Energy Economics -IAEE International Conference, May 25-27. 2015, Antalya, Turkey

Rousseau, A., Stephens, T., Brokate, J., Özdemir, E. D., Klötzke, M., Schmid, S., Plötz, P., Badin, F., Ward, J., Lim, O.T., 2015, "Comparison of Energy Consumption and Costs of Different Plug-in Electric Vehicles in European and American Context", EVS28 International Electric Vehicle Symposium, May 03-06, 2015, KINTEX, South Korea.

Friedrich, H. E., Kevlishvili, N., Özdemir, E. D., 2014, Green Mobility - Technology Roadmap. SCCER-Mobility 1t Annual Conference, September 11, 2014, Zurich.

Jungmeier, G., Dunn, J. B., Elgowainy, A., Gaines, L., Ehrenberger, S., Özdemir, E. D., Althaus, H. J., Widmer, R., 2014, "Life cycle assessment of electric vehicles - Key issues of Task 19 of the International Energy Agency (IEA) on Hybrid and Electric Vehicles (HEV)", Proceedings of TRA 2014. Transport Research Arena 2014, April 14-17, 2014, Paris, France

Özdemir, E. D., Ehrenberger, S., Kleiner, F., Gerner, S., Keller, M., 2014, "Integrated Assessment of Fuel Cell Powertrain Concepts", H2 Expo, Sept. 23-26, 2014, Hamburg.

Jungmeier, G., Dunn, J. B., Elgowainy, A., Özdemir, E. D., Ehrenberger, S., Althaus, H.J., Widmer, R., 2013, "Key Issues in Life Cycle Assessment of Electric Vehicles - Findings in the International Energy Agency (IEA) on Hybrid and Electric Vehicles (HEV)", EVS27 International Electric Vehicle Symposium, Nov. 17-20, 2013, Barcenola, Spain

Hartmann, N., Özdemir, E.D., 2010, "Impact of different charging strategies of electric vehicles on the german grid", Proceedings of ASME 4th international conference on energy sustainability, vol 1 pages: 811-817

Dobbins, A., Tomaschek, J., Özdemir, E.D., Fahl, U., Eltrop, L., 2009, "Advanced local energy planning using energy models: A case study of residential water heating in the Gauteng City Region", South Africa, International Conference 'Megacities: Risk, Vulnerability and Sustainable Development' Leipzig

Hartmann, N., Özdemir, E.D., Goyns, P., Ludger Eltrop, 2009, "Calculation of energy storage potential of electric vehicles in Germany", European Conference SmartGrids + Mobility, Würzburg

Hartmann, N., Özdemir, E.D., Goyns, P., Ludger E., 2009, "Modeling the availability and calculation of energy storage potential of electric vehicles in Germany", EVS24 International Electric Vehicle Symposium, Stavanger

Dobbins, A., Tomaschek, J., Özdemir, E.D., Goyns, P., Fahl, U., Eltrop, L., 2009, "Role of energy models in local energy planning to support the roll-out of solar water heaters in Gauteng", South Africa, UPE8 Conference March 23rd - 26th; Kaiserslautern

König, A, Özdemir, E.D., Eltrop, L., 2007, "Analysis and evaluation of alternative pathways for the energetic use of biogenous gases, In: Tagungsband "Fortschritt beim Biogas - Development of Biogas Conference", University of Hohenheim, Hohenheim

Other publications (selection):

Weyrauther, S., Özdemir, E.D., 2018, "Analysis of a crank drive operating according to the Atkinson cycle", MTZ, February, 60-65

Brokate, J., Özdemir, E. D., Kugler, U., 2013, "The passenger car market until 2040: What drives the car of tomorrow", Project report

Blesl, M., Bruchhof, D., Hartmann, N., Özdemir, E.D., Fahl,U., Eltrop, L., Voß, A., 2009, "Development status and perspectives of electromobility", project report

Fahl,U., Härdtlein, M., Özdemir, E.D., Rath-Nagel, S., Remme, U., Eltrop, L., 2009, "Possibilities of LNG utilization in Baden-Württemberg", project report

Peplowska, M., Härdtlein, M., Kruck, C., Özdemir, E.D., Eltrop, L., "Methodical principles and examples for the calculation of CO2 avoidance costs for biogas plants", IER publication series

IER, DEU, VKF, ZES, 2007, "Evaluierung eines Gas-FlexFuel-Konzeptes zur Erzeugung und Nutzung biogenic Kraftstoffe - Evaluation of a Gas-Flex Fuel Concept for Production and Utilization of Biogenic Fuels", Project Report

Swider, D., Voß, A., Özdemir, E.D., et al., 2006, "Guiding a least cost grid integration of res-electricity in an extended Europe. Case studies on conditions and costs for RES-E grid integration", Green-Net Project Report