Burkhard Schade: Expert in developing of macroeconomic, transport and environment models and their integration together applying the system dynamics methodology. Further working fields are transport research applying Input-Output-Analysis and Cost-Benefit-Analysis.

He has been involved in several international studies like, e.g. the EST project of the OECD; SCENES, COMPETE, INSURE, TRIAS, PREMIA project of EU, as well as in domestic studies e.g. ('Halving the fuel consumption') for the German Aerospace Centre and ('Environmental assessment of infrastructure planning of waterways') the Federal Environment Agency of Germany.

He made his dissertation on ‚Macro Economic assessment of Transport Scenarios’ at the University of Karlsruhe (2005), in which the system dynamics model ESCOT was developed and he was President of the Economic Chapter of the System Dynamics Society in 2005. Currently he works as researcher in energy and transport in the Competitiveness & Sustainability unit of the JRC-IPTS.