Dàmir Belltheus Avdic is Head of the Climate and Innovation Department at IKEM and an expert in offshore wind energy and green fuels, with a particular focus on the Baltic Sea region. His research centres on the social and economic dimensions of the energy transition: from acceptance research and community engagement to socio-economic analysis of emerging technologies such as the hydrogen economy or ammonia as a shipping fuel.
He currently leads a number of European and national research projects, including WasSERDICHT, which explores heat extraction from drinking water networks as part of Germany’s heat transition; CommunitE/BiNe, a citizen energy education network; and ENGAGE Islands, an Interreg Baltic Sea Region project supporting island communities in the Baltic in developing locally-grounded green energy strategies. He is also involved in the IKEM Academy “Energy & Climate”, the DigitalTalents Summer School 2026, and the WOW (Women of Ukraine Empowered) initiative.
Dàmir holds a degree in History from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, a BSc in Economics & Business from the University of Amsterdam, and a Master’s in International Relations from Sciences Po Paris – a combination that has shaped his interdisciplinary approach to energy and climate research, and on which he draws in working with partners and communities across Europe.
