Carsten Trapp

Carsten Trapp is an experienced professional in power trading and market analysis, currently serving as Lead Trading Analyst at Vattenfall since June 2020, where responsibilities include contributing to power desk P&L through market analysis and developing power market models using Python and Azure. Prior roles at Vattenfall involved pricing electricity contracts and valuing deals with embedded optionality. Earlier experience includes a Senior Analyst position at Wattsight, focusing on fundamental power system models and analyses for the European power market. Carsten held a PhD candidacy at Delft University of Technology, researching CO2 capture technology, and conducted a master's thesis in gas turbine R&D at Alstom Power. Additional experience includes consultancy for data management optimization, tutoring in mathematics and physics, and an internship at Rolls-Royce. Carsten Trapp holds a Dipl.-Ing. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Stuttgart and has also studied at KTH Royal Institute of Technology.