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Vita
I joined the Team Survey Data Augmentation at GESIS in October 2021. Before that, I worked as a Researcher at the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (2020-2021) and the Chair of International Comparative Political Economy and Economic Sociology, University of Cologne (2015-2020). I studied Political Science and Public Law at the University of Trier (B.A., 2008-2012), Political Science and Energy Economics at the University of Cologne (M.A., 2012-2014), Environmental Policy at the University of Cambridge, UK (M.Phil., 2014-2015), and Political Economy at the University of Cologne (Dr., 2015-2022). I wrote my dissertation on EU climate and energy governance at the Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences, University of Cologne.Forschung
Veröffentlichungen
Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Lieth, Jonas, Dennis Abel, and Stefan Jünger. 2025. "Between national trends and local realities: Spatializing energy vulnerability in 16 EU countries." Energy Policy 206 (November 2025): 114695. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114695.
Braun, Daniel, Dennis Abel, and Jan Börner. 2025. "Mapping Instrument Preferences for Deforestation Policies Based on EU Public Consultation Data." Environmental Policy and Governance online first: . doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/eet.70036.
Abel, Dennis. 2025. "The role of networked governance for local climate policy output: Evidence from Europe." Environmental Politics online first: . doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2025.2463861.
Lieth, Jonas, Dennis Abel, and Stefan Jünger. 2024. "GRETA analytics: Communicating the spatial dimension of energy citizenship using a collaborative Shiny app." SoftwareX 27 (September 2024): 101800. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2024.101800.
Abel, Dennis, Jonas Lieth, and Stefan Jünger. 2024. "Mapping the spatial turn in social science energy research: A computational literature review." Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 201 (September 2024): 114607. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2024.114607.
Abel, Dennis, and Armin Mertens. 2023. "United in disagreement: Analyzing policy networks in EU policy making." Review of Policy Research 41 (1): 59-82. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/ropr.12546.
Abel, Dennis. 2021. "The diffusion of climate policies among German municipalities." Journal of Public Policy 41 (1): 111-136. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0143814X19000199.
Arbeits- und Diskussionspapier
Straßegger, Fabienne, Dennis Abel, Sara Tonelli, Nina Hänel, Sebastian Ziaja, and Alexia Katsanidou. 2025. Survey, elections, institutions, and socio-economic data procurement document: Deliverable D4.1 for the Horizon Europe project "TWIN4DEM: Strengthening democratic resilience through Digital Twins", EC grant agreement No. 101178061.
Birkenmaier, Lukas, Jessica Daikeler, Leon Fröhling, Tobias Gummer, Clemens Lechner, Vanessa Lux, Jan Schwalbach, Indira Sen, Henning Silber, Bernd Weiß, Katrin Weller, Christof Wolf, Dennis Abel, Johannes Breuer, Stefan Dietze, Dimitar Dimitrov, Holger Döring, Anna Hebel, Oshrat Hochman, Stefan Jünger, Alexia Katsanidou, Julian Kohne, Tanja Kunz, Frank Mangold, Brigitte Mathiak, Joachim G. Piepenburg, Reinhard Pollak, Markus Quandt, Beatrice Rammstedt, Joss Roßmann, Sebastian Schellhammer, Anne-Kathrin Stroppe, Felix Soldner, Sebastian Stier, Claudia Wagner, Oliver Watteler, Julia Weiß, Benjamin Zapilko, and Sebastian Ziaja. 2024. Defining and Evaluating Data Quality for the Social Sciences: Position Paper. GESIS Papers 2024/06. Köln: GESIS. doi: https://doi.org/10.21241/ssoar.96764.
Abel, Dennis, and Franziska Quoß. 2024. Governing the Anthropocene – Proposal for the CSES Module 7. doi: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/Y3MBS.
Lieth, Jonas, Dennis Abel, Stefan Jünger, Omar Usmani, and Ajesh Kumar. 2023. 2D GIS-based models for spatial analysis and scenario definition at regional, national and supranational levels.: D4.6 of the Horizon 2020 project GRETA, EC grant agreement n°101022317. Köln: GESIS. doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10214281.
López, Arantza, Nekane Hermoso, Beatriz Sánchez, Omar Usmani, Carlos Montalvo, Toni Kuronen, Lasse Lensu, Dennis Abel, Jonas Lieth, and Stefan Jünger. 2023. Definition of the modelling framework: D4.2 of the Horizon 2020 project GRETA, EC grant agreement No. 101022317.
Abel, Dennis, Stefan Jünger, Jonas Lieth, Martina Massari, and Saveria O.B. Boulanger. 2022. Interrelations among different types of citizens in different geographic contexts: D5.2 of the Horizon 2020 project GRETA, EC grant agreement n°101022317. Köln: GESIS. doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10078096.
Massari, Martina, Saveria O.B. Boulanger, Danila Longo, Giulia Turci, Serena Pagliula, Giada Coleandro, Beatrice Ruggieri, Dennis Abel, and Luise Schlindwein. 2022. Taxonomy of geographical levels and drivers for energy citizenship emergence: D5.1 of the Horizon 2020 project GRETA, EC grant agreement n°101022317, Bologna, Italy. . doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10078089.
Daten/Software
Abel, Dennis, and Stefan Jünger. 2025. gxc - Easy access to Earth observation data (v0.1.0). doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15041277.
Seminar
Schwalbach, Jan, and Dennis Abel. 2024. "Introduction to R for Data Analysis." GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Köln. Sommersemester 2024.
Schwalbach, Jan, and Dennis Abel. 2023. "Introduction to R for Data Analysis." GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Köln.
Sonstiges
Abel, Dennis, and Stefan Jünger. 2025. "Advanced Geospatial Data Processing for Social Scientists." GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Köln.
Jünger, Stefan, and Dennis Abel. 2025. "Introduction to Geospatial Techniques for Social Scientists in R." GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Köln.
Abel, Dennis, and Stefan Jünger. 2025. "Introduction to R for Data Analysis." GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Köln.
Veranstaltung
Abel, Dennis, Stefan Jünger, Jonas Lieth, and Amelie Veit. 2025. "Earth Observation Data in the Social Sciences." International Expert Workshop, GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Köln, 2025-11-26 - 2025-11-28.
Abel, Dennis, and Stefan Jünger. 2024. "Earth Observation Data in the Social Sciences." International Expert Workshop, GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Köln, 2024-11-27 - 2024-11-29.
Abel, Dennis, and Stefan Jünger. 2023. "Earth Observation Data in the Social Sciences." International Expert Workshop, GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Köln, 2023-12-13 - 2023-12-15.