Katharina Esterl studied Electrical Energy Systems Engineering (Bachelor) and Systems Engineering (Master) at Flensburg University of Applied Sciences. Since her bachelor's studies, she has been employed as a student assistant in the research projects "open_eGo" and "eGon". Those involve investigating the transformation of the energy system in Germany by modelling and optimisation. During her master's studies, Katharina was particularly concerned with reducing the spatial and temporal complexity of the models to be optimized. Katharina has been continuing her work in the field of energy system modelling as a research assistant at Flensburg University since May 2022.

• Müller et al. (2019): "open_eGo - Netzebenenübergreifendes Planungsinstrument - zur Bestimmung des optimalen Netz- und Speicherausbaus in Deutschland - integriert in einer OpenEnergyPlatform - Abschlussbericht". ISSN: 2196-7164. https://www.uni-flensburg.de/fileadmin/content/abteilungen/industrial/dokumente/downloads/veroeffentlichungen/forschungsergebnisse/20190426endbericht-openego-fkz0325881-final.pdf?sword_list%5B0%5D=katharina&sword_list%5B1%5D=esterl&no_cache=1