Expert in off-grid energy access, renewable energy technologies & geospatial approaches.
Green hydrogen can become a viable option to support the achievement of SDG7 (affordable clean energy) and this network targets the premise of SDG5 (gender equality) at the same time!
Dr. Catherina Cader is an expert in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and rural electrification planning. She has joined Reiner Lemoine Institut in 2012 and acts as Head of the Research Unit Off-Grid Systems.
Catherina holds a PhD in Geography from Justus Liebig University Giessen. For her dissertation, she conducted research on rural electrification planning in Nigeria. Her PhD project was supported by a scholarship from the Reiner Lemoine-Foundation. She also holds a Master of Science in Geography from Philipps University Marburg and a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Management from Justus Liebig University Giessen.
Through field visits and self-developed trainings on the use of GIS for rural electrification planning, Catherina has great expertise on the political, geographical, economic, and technical challenges of local energy supply situations. By developing and applying GIS-based methods, she brings the spatial component into RLI research using open source software. Catherina has experience as a project manager in several projects – her work has taken her to various places including Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Zambia, Myanmar, Nepal and the Philippines.
Catherina publishes her research results and in scientific journals and at conferences and acts as a reviewer for journals and funding agencies as evaluator and independent expert, as well as a supervisor for academic research projects.
