Cristina de la Rúa

Cristina de la Rúa is a Researcher at the Chair of Renewable and Sustainable Energy Systems at the Technische Universität München (TUM). She has over 15 years of experience in energy system analysis, with a focus on life cycle assessment and input-output modeling.

• Education: Diplom in Environmental Science (Universidad Alcalá, 2003), PhD (Dr. rer.nat, TU Madrid, 2009).
• Research Interests: Environmental, socio-economic, and social impacts of energy systems, life cycle assessment, input-output analysis.
• Teaching: Courses on sustainable mobility and public participation in energy infrastructure planning.

Her recent publications address integrating LCA into energy models, hydrogen production sustainability, and European decarbonization. She has contributed to the Kopernikus P2X project roadmap and studied solar energy imports, biofuels, and biomass supply chains. Her work emphasizes multi-regional analysis and climate impact mitigation.

She collaborates with Prof. Thomas Hamacher and colleagues like Andrea Cadavid Isaza and Thushara Addanki, contributing to projects such as Impuls-urbs and SES Lab. Her career spans roles at CIEMAT, JRC, and TUM.