Dr Heike Brugger has been Managing Director of IREES GmbH – Institute for Resource Efficiency and Energy Strategies since May 2025.

She studied political science, mathematics and physics at the University of Konstanz. In 2017, she completed her doctorate at the University of Konstanz’s Department of Political and Administrative Sciences, specialising in local energy policy and network analysis. From 2018 to April 2025, she worked as a researcher and project manager in the Energy Policy and Energy Markets department at Fraunhofer ISI, where she has headed the Energy Policy business unit since March 2021.

Her work focuses on the design and evaluation of energy and climate policy instruments and measures, particularly in the areas of energy efficiency, digitalisation and artificial intelligence, as well as the modelling of energy consumption trends in private households and the commercial, trade and services sector. Another focus of her work is analysing and advising on local energy and climate policy.

Heike Brugger is a member of the advisory board of the “Competence Centre for Energy Efficiency through Digitalisation (KEDi)” of the German Energy Agency.