Felix Chr. Matthes is research coordinator for energy and climate policy at the Institute for Applied Ecology (Öko-Institut) in Berlin, Germany. He served as a scientific member of the German Bundestag’s Study Commission on Sustainable Energy from 2000 to 2003 and was appointed in 2011 as a member of the Advisory Group to the European Commission on the Energy Roadmap 2050. He was a fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States in 1993 and a visiting scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2007 and 2008.