Simon Möller received his Master’s degree in Sociology and Economics from Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich in 2016. After a 2-year employment as project supervisor in environmental and energy management consulting, he has since 2018 been working as a PhD student and research assistant at the Institute for Sociology at the LMU Munich. There he was involved in several trans-disciplinary projects related to the German energy transition. Since 2019, he is responsible for the research project “EffKom – energy-efficient residential comfort: user-oriented development of an automated system for the control of space heating”. Working in close cooperation with engineers and computer scientists, Simon is particularly interested in user-oriented technology development and in in-depth data analysis to investigate human-technology interactions and their effects on energy consumption. As part of this project, he also analyses innovation processes in the domain of building automation and smart home technologies and the role of different actors such as housing companies, innovators, technical developers and tenants. Since 2023, he has also been working at TUM, where he teaches courses in sociology in the BA “Vocational Education” and is thereby active at another intersection of science and practice.
- Science and Technology Studies (MCTS)
- Innovation research, especially in relation to building technologies
- Human-technology interaction in the context of building technologies
- Theories of practice
- Qualitative methods, esp. qualitative content analysis
- Quantitative methods, esp. descriptive statistics and cross-sectional analysis
- Moeller, S., Schneider, M., Leonhardt, S. (Im Erscheinen) Enablers and barriers to the sustainable transformation of urban districts. (Interim) results from six lighthouse projects. In: Leonhardt, S. et al. (Eds.) „Innovations and challenges of the energy transition in smart city districts. Experiences and results of the energy transition beacons from the Solar Building/ Energy efficient City funding initiative. De Gruyter.
- Moeller, S. (2022) Energiesparend Heizen durch intelligente Steuerungstechnik – Die Bedeutung von Vertrauen, Verständlichkeit und Vermittlung in der Mensch-Technik-Interaktion. In: Leonhardt, S., Neumann, T., Kretz, D., Teich, T., Bodach, M. (Hrsg.): Innovation und Kooperation auf dem Weg zur All Electric Society. Springer Gabler.
- Moeller, S., Bauer, A. (2022) Energy (in)efficient comfort practices: How building retrofits influence energy behaviours in multi-apartment buildings. Energy Policy 168. DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2022.113123.
- Bauer, A., Möller, S., Gill, B., & Schröder, F. (2021) When energy efficiency goes out the window: How highly insulated buildings contribute to energy-intensive ventilation practices in Germany. Energy Research & Social Scienc 72. DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2020.101888.
- Moeller, S., Weber, I., Schröder, F., Bauer, A., Harter, H. (2020) Apartment related energy performance gap – how to address internal heat transfers in multi-apartment buildings. Energy and Buildings 215. DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2020.109887.
- Gill, Bernhard, Moeller, Simon (2018) GHG Emissions and the Rural-Urban Divide. A Carbon Footprint Analysis Based on the German Official Income and Expenditure Survey. In: Ecological Economics, vol. 145, pp. 160-169. doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.09.004