Daniel Huppmann
Senior Research Scholar at International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
Vienna, Austria
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Top SchoolDaniel Huppmann is a senior research scholar and open-source developer with a decade of experience at IIASA, where he leads the “Scenario Services and Scientific Software” theme building FAIR-aligned tools for scenario ensemble compilation, validation, analysis, and dissemination. He blends rigorous integrated-assessment research with hands-on software engineering as lead developer of MESSAGEix, the open-source energy-system framework that underpins MESSAGEix-GLOBIOM and supports major EU projects and IPCC assessments. Daniel contributed key quantitative scenario ensembles to the IPCC SR15 and AR6, and he brings that policy-facing modeling experience into reproducible, well-tested code and documentation improvements on GitHub. He also teaches open-source energy system modeling at TU Wien and serves on the board of the Climate Change Centre Austria, bridging academia, policy, and software communities. An economist by training with an MSc in mathematics and a Dr. rer. oec., he is notable for combining formal academic rigor with pragmatic tooling that makes complex scenario analysis accessible and reusable.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of TechnologyDr. rer. oec, Economics, Dr. rer. oec, Economics at Technische Universität BerlinHigh school (Matura), High school (Matura) at Theresianische Akademie WienEconomics (Graduate program), Economics (Graduate program) at DIW Graduate Center
German, English, French, Russian
Github Skills (10)
python10
gam10
documentation10
open-source9
jupyter-notebook8
user-manual8
learn-ruby-on-rails8
basics8
testing7
pandas7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
iiasa/message_ix
Dec 2017 - Jun 2019
The integrated assessment and energy systems model MESSAGEix
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 62 commits, 58 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Daniel's contributions primarily involve the migration and updating of documentation pages, along with the addition of features and refactoring of code for the MESSAGEix model. They updated tutorial notebooks, introduced new features related to emission taxes, and ensured the consistency of the scenario API. They also made adjustments to the testing framework, and fixed issues related to emission price reporting and the cloning of scenarios.
pythonsnl-applicationsenergy-systemmodeling-toolpower-systems
danielhuppmann/nomenclature
Jun 2021 - Jul 2026
A package to work with IAMC-style variable templates
Contributions:1 review, 222 pushes, 145 branches in 5 years 1 month
twinetemplateseaglemambavariable
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