Academic Education
2010–2015: PhD in Economics, Technische Universität Berlin, Department “Economics of Climate Change”, Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) and Potsdam-Institute of Climate Impact Research (PIK), Germany Title of Dissertation: “Rent and Redistribution. The welfare implications of financing low-carbon public investment”
2008–2009: Visiting Student in Mathematics, Ecole Normale Supérieure, France
2004–2008: Master of Mathematics and Philosophy (MMathPhil), St. Hugh’s College, University of Oxford, England
Professional Experience (selected)
Since 2021: Robert Bosch Junior Professor for Sustainable Use of Natural Resources, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Since 2021: FutureLab Leader “Inequality, Human Well-Being and Development”, Potsdam-Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany
2016–2021: Lecturer (full time from/2018); Honorary Research Associate (Since/2021), Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, England
2016–2018: Since 7/2019: “Deputy Director of the Economics of Sustainability Programme”, Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford, England
2018: Chazen Visiting Scholar, hosted by Prof. Joseph E. Stiglitz, Columbia Business School, Columbia University, USA
2013–2015: Research fellow, research group “Public Economics for the Global Commons”, Mercator Research Institute of Global Commons and Climate Change, Berlin, German
2021: Die Junge Akademie (junior chapter of Leopoldina, national academy of science and Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Science)
2019: Economics for Inclusive Prosperity
2019–2021: Contributing Author to IPCC Working Group III, AR6, Chapter 5.
2018: Member of Expert Commission of the German Catholic Church on “World Economy and Ethics: Sustainable Development”.
2016–2017: International Panel on Social Progress. Ch.4: Economic Growth, Human Development and Planetary Welfare. Contributing Author
2023: Einstein International Postdoctoral Fellow
2021: Robert Bosch Junior Professorship
2020: Livestock, Environment and People (LEAP) Programme, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
2018: H2020–MSCA–RISE, Travel Grant, GEMCLIME–2020
2016: Research & Travel Fund, School of Geography & the Environment, University of Oxford
Zhao, J. & Mattauch, L. (2022): When standards have better distributional consequences than carbon
taxes. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 116, 102747.
Mattauch, L., Klenert, D., Stiglitz, J.E. & Edenhofer, O. (2022): Overcoming wealth inequality by capital taxes that finance public investment. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 63, 383-395.
Mattauch, L., Hepburn, C., Spuler, F. & Stern, N. (2022): The economics of climate change with endogenous preferences. Resource and Energy Economics, 69, 101312.
Frondel, Manuel, Viola Helmers, Linus Mattauch, Michael Pahle, Stephan Sommer, Christoph M. Schmidt, Ottmar Edenhofer. Akzeptanz der CO2-Bepreisung in Deutschland: Die große Bedeutung einer Rückverteilung der Einnahmen (2022). Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 23(1), 49-64.
Sommer, S., Mattauch, L. & Pahle, M. (2022): Supporting carbon taxes and the role of fairness.
Ecological Economics, 195, 107359.
Mattauch, L., Matthews, H.D., Millar, R., Rezai, A., Solomon, S. & Venmans, F. (2020): Steering the
climate system: comment. American Economic Review, 110(4), 1238–1241.
Klenert, D., Mattauch, L., Combet, E., Edenhofer, O., Hepburn, C., Rafaty, R. & Stern, N. (2018): Making carbon pricing work for citizens. Nature Climate Change, 8, 669-677.
Mattauch, L., Ridgway, M., & Creutzig, F. (2016): Happy or liberal? Making sense of behavior in
transport policy design. Transportation research part D: transport and environment, 45, 64-83.
Creutzig, F., Jochem, P., Edelenbosch, O.Y., Mattauch, L., van Vuuren, D.P., McCollum, D. & Minx, J. (
2015): Transport: A roadblock to climate change mitigation? Science, 350(6263), 911-912