Dr Lowitzsch holds the Kelso Professorship of Comparative Law, East European Business Law and European Legal Policy at European University Viadrina. He is Director of Kelso Institute Europe at Berlin, wherein he is undertaking applied Research on Participatory Economics and Renewables for a Sustainable Future.His main fields of expertise are employee and consumer financial participation, energy law, privatisation and transformation, insolvency law, European Law and legal policy, distributive justice and the renewal of the German and European welfare states.Dr Lowitzsch directed the HORIZON 2020 project “SCORE – Supporting Consumer Co-Ownership in Renewable Energies” as coordinator; SCORE implemented Renewable Energy Consumer Stock Ownership Plans (RE-CSOPs) in four pilot regions between 2019 and 2022 (SCORE – Horizon 2020 Final Report). Currently he and his team are part of the HORIZON Europe project WIMBY - Wind In My Back Yard focussing on the acceptance of the deployment of wind power across the EU.

He edited the book “Energy Transition – Financing Consumer Ownership in Renewables – 18 country studies and a comparative analysis” published in January 2019 with Palgrave/McMillan. He publishes on a wide variety of subjects concerning a just and sustainable transition to circular society.He is the editor of the PEPPER III (2006), IV (2009) and V (2024) reports. In 2012, as an expert and team leader, Dr Lowitzsch oversaw the European Parliament’s study “Financial Participation of Employees in Companies’ Proceeds”. Furthermore, he was team leader in the project “Employee Financial Participation in Companies’ Proceeds”.

He was project director and team leader of the DG MARKT Pilot Project "Promotion of Employee Ownership and Participation" in 20214/15. In 2020, he oversaw the Study "Incidence of employee share ownership in Germany and Europe" commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy.Professor Lowitzsch speaks German as well as fluent English, French, Italian, Spanish, and Polish; he has a good working knowledge of Russian and Croatian.