Dr. Andreas Löschel New Head of ZEW's Research Department "Environmental and Resource Economics, Environmental Management"

As of today, August 1st, 2007, Dr. Andreas Löschel (35) takes up his position as head of the research department "Environmental and Resource Economics, Environmental Management" at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim.

From 1999 to 2005, Löschel had already been researcher at this research department and has now returned to ZEW after Prof. Dr. Christoph Böhringer, the previous head, had been appointed Professor of Economics at the University of Oldenburg. Löschel’s work mainly focuses on the empirical analysis of economic policy issues, especially the economics of climate change and energy policy. Löschel will be heading the ZEW Research Department  “Environmental and Resource Economics, Environmental Management”, currently consisting of 17 researchers, from now on. Up to now, the research department was able to acquire third-party funds to the amount of 13 million Euro. The share of EU funds make up more than 65 per cent of the entire third-party funding obtained by the research department.

Löschel received a scholarship by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation to study Economics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). In the course of an integrated study abroad at the Wayne State University in Detroit, USA, in 1995, Löschel obtained his Master of Arts in Economics. After graduating as Diplom-Volkswirt, he received a doctoral scholarship by the German Research Foundation at the Graduate Programme “Environmental and Resource Economics” of the Universities of Heidelberg and Mannheim. In 2003, he did his doctorate on "Economic Impacts of Climate Change Policy" at the University of Mannheim. In 1998, he received the award of the Wiso-Fakultätsbund Nuremberg in recognition of his performance during the diploma examination. His diploma thesis on the future of old-age provision was honoured with the award Deutscher Studienpreis by the Körber-Stiftung and his doctoral thesis with the award of the Karin-Islinger Foundation at the University of Mannheim.

Since the end of 1999, Löschel had been working at the ZEW research department “Environmental and Resource Economics, Environmental Management” – in his last position as Senior Researcher. From 2005 to 2007 he worked for the European Commission at the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) in Seville, Spain. He was also visiting professor at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide (2006-2007) as well as guest researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2003 and at Stanford University in 2005 thanks to a scholarship by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation. Since 2006, Löschel has been member of the research committee “Environmental and Resource Economics” at the Verein für Socialpolitik. Furthermore, he was evaluator for the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in working group II (Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability) and working group III (Mitigation of Climate Change).

Contact

Thomas Kohl, Phone: +49 621/1235-111, E-mail: kohl@zew.de