About me
I am a climate economist working at the intersection of climate science and economics; most of my work revolves around integrated assessment models of climate change. Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) are computer models that include both a climate part and an economic part. They are often used to provide climate policy guidance, for example on the social cost of carbon.
Much of my current work focuses on the economic impacts of AMOC weakening. With Eduardo Alastrué de Asenjo, I have published on the economic effects of the AMOC carbon feedback (PNAS paper); a follow-up on regional European temperature impacts is under review. A further line of work quantifies how much AMOC projection uncertainty contributes to overall uncertainty in European climate damage estimates.
I am currently a PhD candidate in the Sustainability Economics research group at ETH Zürich. From 2027, I will be a Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow at the Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley. Before ETH, I was part of the International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling (IMPRS-ESM) at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, where I was supervised by Prof. Moritz Drupp, Prof. Hermann Held (UHH), and Dr. Chao Li (MPI-M).
I am part of the MEEP (Mapping Effects of Environmental Policies) project, for which we received the 2024 Joachim Herz Award. Since November 2024, I also hold an Add-on Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Economics by the Joachim Herz Foundation.
My broader research interests include the representation of Earth system dynamics and feedbacks in integrated assessment models, the assessment of structural uncertainty in social cost of carbon estimates, and the ethical aspects of climate mitigation burden distribution across world regions. I further work on the philosophy of model evaluation and on using climatic instruments to causally identify impacts of air pollution.
🗞️ News
- September 2026: I defended my PhD thesis (Essays on the role of Earth system dynamics in economic assessments of climate change).
- March 2026: I will join the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley in January 2027 as a Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow, working on the economic impacts of AMOC weakening.
- January 2026: I participated in the first authors’ meeting of the JPI Oceans & Climate AMOC in Focus assessment report, where I am one of the lead authors for Chapter 6 (“The human dimension, responses and solutions”).
- December 2025: I participated in a panel discussion on “Klimaforschung und Klimapolitik — Einklang oder Widerspruch?” in Hamburg, the recording of which can be watched here.
- June 2025: I moved to ETH Zürich to continue my PhD there, following my supervisor Moritz Drupp who is newly appointed Professor of Sustainability Economics.
- February 2025: Our paper Weakening AMOC reduces ocean carbon uptake and increases the social cost of carbon (2025) was published in PNAS. See more here.