Konrad Dierks
konrad.dierks@tse-fr.eu
Current Position
PhD student at Toulouse School of Economics
Advisor: Christian Gollier
Research interests
Main: renewable energy and storage for the electricity grid
Secondary: political economics, optimization and numerical methods
Education
| ongoing |
PhD in Economics, Toulouse School of Economics |
| Sept. 2022 - August 2023 |
MRes in Economics (second year of the PhD programme) |
| Sept. 2021 - August 2022 |
Master in Economic Theory and Econometrics (first year of the PhD programme, very good) |
| Sept. 2019 - August 2021 |
Master in Advanced Mathematics at ENS de Lyon (France), probability theory and statistics track, degree: Master’s degree (good) |
| Feb. 2018 - July 2018 |
Semester abroad at Università degli Studi di Firenze in Florence (Italy) with the Erasmus+ programme |
| 2015 - March 2019 |
Bachelor in Mathematics (minor: Economics) at Technische Universität Dresden (Germany), degree: Bachelor’s degree (very good) |
Professional Experience and Research Internships
| April 2021 - July 2021 |
Research internship, topic: stochastic control applied to distributed control of water heaters, CMAP (École Polytechnique, France), supervisor: Nizar Touzi |
| May 2020 - June 2020 |
Research internship, title: “Random Spanning Forests, Random Walks and their connection to Spin Systems”, Institut Camille Jordan (Université Lyon 1, France), supervisor: Christophe Sabot |
| April 2019 - August 2019 |
Student job at Fraunhofer Institut for traffic and infrastructure systems (IVI) in Dresden (Germany), competences: Python programming, applied statistics, optimal control |
Teaching
| 2025 |
TA for Mathematics, first year Licence in Economics and Business, TSE, in French |
| 2024 |
TA for Probability and Statistics, third year Licence in Economics, TSE, in French |
| 2022, 2023 |
TA for Microeconomics, third year Licence in Economics, Economics and Mathematics, TSE, in English and French |
| 2017, 2018 |
TA for Linear Algebra, first year Bachelor in Mathematics, TU Dresden, in German |
Conference Talks
| 2025 |
Interdisciplinary PhD Workshop in Sustainable Development at Columbia University (New York City, on Zoom); QMUL Economics and Finance PhD Workshop (London); ENTER Jamboree at SSE (Stockholm); EAERE Annual Conference (Bergen); FAERE Annual Conference (Nantes) |
| 2024 |
EEA-ESEM Congress (Rotterdam); Economic Science Association European Meeting (Helsinki) |
Other Talks
| 2026 |
EDF (Paris, TSE-EDF cooperation) |
| 2025 |
ENTER Exchange Seminar at UAB (Barcelona); University of Leipzig Lunchtime Seminar for PhD students |
Summer Schools
| 2024 |
AMSE Summer School on “Discounting, Risk and the Environment” (Marseille) |
| 2023 |
Columbia Alliance Summer School on Sustainable Development (Paris) |
Languages
German (native), English (fluent), French (fluent), Italian (fluent), Spanish (beginner)
IT and Programming Skills
Advanced: Python, LaTeX, Linux
Basic: R, Fortran, Javascript and Matlab