[1] Bossel collaboratively developed a number of computer simulation models and decision support systems in the following areas: energy supply policy, global dynamics, orientation of behavior, agricultural policy, forest dynamics and management, sustainable development, and indicator systems.
[1] Bossel also wrote a number of textbooks on the modeling and simulation of dynamic systems, social change, future paths, and sustainable development.
Bossel and co-author Florentin Krause are credited with coining the term Energiewende, used to describe the change in German energy policy from 2010 onwards, in 1980.
[2][3]: 223 Bossel graduated from the Technische Universität Darmstadt in 1961 with a diploma in mechanical engineering (aeronautical sciences).
Bossel completed several research sabbaticals abroad, including in the US, France, the former Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, and New Zealand.