Tara Esterl

Tara Esterl has been Head of the Competence Unit 'Integrated Energy Systems' at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology since January 2020, where she has worked as a researcher since 2012. She researches the development of flexibility at the interface between markets, the transmission grid and the distribution grid. She leads large interdisciplinary research projects in this field, such as the project Industry4Redispatch (I4RD). She is Vice President of EUREC, the Association of European Renewable Energy Research Centers, and she represents Austria in the IEA UsersTCP. After completing her bachelor’s degree in European 'Energy Economics' at the FH Kufstein with a stay abroad in Nagpur, India, she completed her two master degrees in 'Renewable Urban Energy Systems' at the FH Technikum Wien and 'International Business Administration' at the University of Vienna.