Dr. Felix Chr. Matthes, who holds degrees in electrical engineering and political science, has worked at the Öko-Institut in Berlin since 1992. Since 2009, he has served as the research coordinator for energy and climate policy. His research, consultancy and publishing activities primarily focus on long-term decarbonisation strategies, energy market design and the formulation and evaluation of policy mix concepts, particularly CO₂ pricing. He also specialises in technology-specific issues in systems analysis, such as infrastructure development in the energy transition, nuclear energy, coal-fired power generation, combined heat and power and CO₂ capture and storage, in Germany, Europe and internationally (primarily in Asia and the US). He serves on various advisory boards of associations and companies, as well as expert and advisory commissions. These include the German Bundestag’s Enquete Commission on “Sustainable Energy Supply”, the European Commission’s Advisory Group on the Energy Roadmap 2050, the Commission on Growth, Structural Change, and Employment (the so-called Coal Commission), the German-Japanese Energy Transition Council (GJETC), the Steering Committee of the Science Platform on Climate Protection and the National Hydrogen Council.

In 1993, he was a fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States in the U.S.; in 2007 and 2008, he was a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA. Since May 2025, he has served as acting chairman of the National Hydrogen Council.