Leonie Wenz
@leoniewenz.bsky.social
Prof of Environmental Economics @TU Berlin, deputy head of Complexity Science department + lead of Societal Transition & Wellbeing lab @PIK Potsdam, former postdoc @ARE Berkeley, member @Junge Akademie & CESifo
Heute Abend diskutieren wir im #Futurium Berlin über die Zukunft der Wissenschafskommunikation - mit Utopiemobil!
Im November macht das #Utopiemobil erneut Halt im #Futurium in #Berlin. Am 13.11. geht es im Rahmen eines 🌟Open Lab Abends🌟ab 17 Uhr um die Zukunft der #Wissenschaftskommunikation. U.a. mit @leoniewenz.bsky.social und @libuchauer.bsky.social
Alle Infos:🔗 www.diejungeakademie.de/de/veranstal...
Alle Infos:🔗 www.diejungeakademie.de/de/veranstal...
November 13, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Heute Abend diskutieren wir im #Futurium Berlin über die Zukunft der Wissenschafskommunikation - mit Utopiemobil!
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If you’re in Leeds on the 15th of October, come to my inaugural lecture on “Facing Accelerating Climate Change Threat - Exploring Future Trajectories, Surveying the Past and the Present” www.tickettailor.com/events/fssev...
Select tickets – "Facing Accelerating Climate Change Threat": A Faculty Inaugural Lecture by Professor Viktoria Spaiser – Liberty Building (Moot Court) LT (1.28), University of Leeds
"Facing Accelerating Climate Change Threat": A Faculty Inaugural Lecture by Professor Viktoria Spaiser – Liberty Building (Moot Court) LT (1.28), University of Leeds, Wed 15 Oct 2025 - We are delighte...
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September 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
If you’re in Leeds on the 15th of October, come to my inaugural lecture on “Facing Accelerating Climate Change Threat - Exploring Future Trajectories, Surveying the Past and the Present” www.tickettailor.com/events/fssev...
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#Klimawandel kennt keine Ländergrenzen – seine Folgen aber treffen uns weltweit und oft ungerecht verteilt. 🌍🔥
Klimaökonomin @leoniewenz.bsky.social vom @pik-potsdam.bsky.social zeigt im aktuellen #JAM31, warum wir globale Antworten brauchen:
Hier lesen:
👉 www.diejungeakademie.de/de/publikati...
Klimaökonomin @leoniewenz.bsky.social vom @pik-potsdam.bsky.social zeigt im aktuellen #JAM31, warum wir globale Antworten brauchen:
Hier lesen:
👉 www.diejungeakademie.de/de/publikati...
June 19, 2025 at 11:14 AM
#Klimawandel kennt keine Ländergrenzen – seine Folgen aber treffen uns weltweit und oft ungerecht verteilt. 🌍🔥
Klimaökonomin @leoniewenz.bsky.social vom @pik-potsdam.bsky.social zeigt im aktuellen #JAM31, warum wir globale Antworten brauchen:
Hier lesen:
👉 www.diejungeakademie.de/de/publikati...
Klimaökonomin @leoniewenz.bsky.social vom @pik-potsdam.bsky.social zeigt im aktuellen #JAM31, warum wir globale Antworten brauchen:
Hier lesen:
👉 www.diejungeakademie.de/de/publikati...
Sadly, I can’t be at #EAERE2025 myself but lots of our work will be presented 👇🏼
June 17, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Sadly, I can’t be at #EAERE2025 myself but lots of our work will be presented 👇🏼
Wie häufig und wie prominent werden welche Klimawandel-Themen in der Tagesschau behandelt? Das hat Tanja Schirmag in ihrer Bachelorarbeit am PIK @pik-potsdam.bsky.social und der Uni Potsdam @unipotsdam.bsky.social untersucht. Die Ergebnisse wurden heute in Comms Earth & Environment veröffentlicht 🎉
Neural topic modeling reveals German television’s climate change coverage
Communications Earth & Environment - Climate change accounts for about 4% of total news coverage in one of Germany’s leading television news programs. 80% of climate change coverage is...
www.nature.com
June 6, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Wie häufig und wie prominent werden welche Klimawandel-Themen in der Tagesschau behandelt? Das hat Tanja Schirmag in ihrer Bachelorarbeit am PIK @pik-potsdam.bsky.social und der Uni Potsdam @unipotsdam.bsky.social untersucht. Die Ergebnisse wurden heute in Comms Earth & Environment veröffentlicht 🎉
How often and how prominently are which climate change-related topics covered in Germany’s major TV news program Tagesschau? In her Bachelor’s thesis, Tanja Schirmag developed an NLP-based algorithm and applied neural topic modeling to find out. The results have just been published 🎉
Neural topic modeling reveals German television’s climate change coverage
Communications Earth & Environment - Climate change accounts for about 4% of total news coverage in one of Germany’s leading television news programs. 80% of climate change coverage is...
www.nature.com
June 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
How often and how prominently are which climate change-related topics covered in Germany’s major TV news program Tagesschau? In her Bachelor’s thesis, Tanja Schirmag developed an NLP-based algorithm and applied neural topic modeling to find out. The results have just been published 🎉
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Important indeed!
Timothé Beaufils, @leoniewenz.bsky.social and I investigate exactly this strategic dimension of the CBAM in our joint work: www.cesifo.org/en/publicati...
Timothé Beaufils, @leoniewenz.bsky.social and I investigate exactly this strategic dimension of the CBAM in our joint work: www.cesifo.org/en/publicati...
April 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Important indeed!
Timothé Beaufils, @leoniewenz.bsky.social and I investigate exactly this strategic dimension of the CBAM in our joint work: www.cesifo.org/en/publicati...
Timothé Beaufils, @leoniewenz.bsky.social and I investigate exactly this strategic dimension of the CBAM in our joint work: www.cesifo.org/en/publicati...
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NEW: Fossil fuel firms like Chevron and Exxon owe the world trillions of dollars. Today in @nature.com, @jsmankin.bsky.social and I show economic losses from rising heat waves directly traceable to these firms, providing scientific support for climate accountability.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Carbon majors and the scientific case for climate liability - Nature
A transparent and reproducible scientific framework is introduced to formalize how trillions in economic losses are attributable to the extreme heat caused by emissions from fossil fuel companies, whi...
www.nature.com
April 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
NEW: Fossil fuel firms like Chevron and Exxon owe the world trillions of dollars. Today in @nature.com, @jsmankin.bsky.social and I show economic losses from rising heat waves directly traceable to these firms, providing scientific support for climate accountability.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Extremely happy and excited to have been appointed professor of environmental economics, with a focus on climate damages and adaptation, at Technical University Berlin.
www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
Leonie Wenz: Professor of Environmental Economics at the TU Berlin
04.03.2025- Leonie Wenz has been appointed Professor of Environmental Economics at Technische Universität (TU) Berlin with effect from 1 March 2025. The new position is a joint appointment with the Po...
www.pik-potsdam.de
March 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Extremely happy and excited to have been appointed professor of environmental economics, with a focus on climate damages and adaptation, at Technical University Berlin.
www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
Excellent piece on climate adaptation by Chris Callahan!
I have a piece out today in @naturesustain.bsky.social arguing that we should be realistic -- or even pessimistic -- about the potential for climate adaptation.
rdcu.be/d9Rue
rdcu.be/d9Rue
Present and future limits to climate change adaptation
Nature Sustainability - While adaptation to climate and environmental impacts is assumed for future development, this Perspective provides evidence that adaptation may be more limited or even...
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February 15, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Excellent piece on climate adaptation by Chris Callahan!
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Join my new Public Economics team at @unileipzig.bsky.social! A 100% PhD/Postdoc position with teaching and a 75% PhD position in a DFG research project on the triangle of growth, housing and voting in Germany with @sebastiankohl.bsky.social & @trgn.bsky.social. Apply until Feb 28
February 4, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Join my new Public Economics team at @unileipzig.bsky.social! A 100% PhD/Postdoc position with teaching and a 75% PhD position in a DFG research project on the triangle of growth, housing and voting in Germany with @sebastiankohl.bsky.social & @trgn.bsky.social. Apply until Feb 28
Looking forward to my talk and visit at INET Oxford today+tomorrow!
Join us on Wednesday 29 January, in person or online, for the @inet-complexity.bsky.social seminar series: Climate-induced cross-border migration at global scales
With @leoniewenz.bsky.social @pik-potsdam.bsky.social
🔗 www.inet.ox.ac.uk/events/clima...
#complexity #complexityeconomics
With @leoniewenz.bsky.social @pik-potsdam.bsky.social
🔗 www.inet.ox.ac.uk/events/clima...
#complexity #complexityeconomics
January 29, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Looking forward to my talk and visit at INET Oxford today+tomorrow!
Thank you for hosting me (and the prize!) - I had a great time with inspiring and insightful discussions!
Last chance to sign up to our cost of climate change seminar with Piers Sellers prize winner Dr Leonie Wenz! 🌧️💰
🗓️ Mon 27 Jan
⏰ 12:00 - 13:00
📍 School of Earth and Environment seminar rooms 1&2 and Online
Register and find out more 👇
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/b88df5...
🗓️ Mon 27 Jan
⏰ 12:00 - 13:00
📍 School of Earth and Environment seminar rooms 1&2 and Online
Register and find out more 👇
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/b88df5...
January 29, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Thank you for hosting me (and the prize!) - I had a great time with inspiring and insightful discussions!
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Lesenswerter FAZ-Beitrag zu den Kosten, wenn Klimaschutz vernachlässigt wird: Menschenleben, Sachschäden, Konflikte und Unruhen, Flüchtlingsströme… Die Frage ist deshalb nicht, OB sondern WIE der Klimaschutz vorangetrieben werden sollte.
January 19, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Lesenswerter FAZ-Beitrag zu den Kosten, wenn Klimaschutz vernachlässigt wird: Menschenleben, Sachschäden, Konflikte und Unruhen, Flüchtlingsströme… Die Frage ist deshalb nicht, OB sondern WIE der Klimaschutz vorangetrieben werden sollte.
Our recent Nature publication on the economic cost of climate change came in second!
NEW – Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2024 | @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org
Read here: https://buff.ly/4heAVMH
Read here: https://buff.ly/4heAVMH
January 15, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Our recent Nature publication on the economic cost of climate change came in second!
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Only one week left to apply for 1 of 2 PhD positions investigating the behavioral barriers of the green transition with me at University of Copenhagen. jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...
PhD scholarships as part of the research project, “Behavioral Barriers to the Green Transition", CEBI, University of Copenhagen (UCPH)
jobportal.ku.dk
January 6, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Only one week left to apply for 1 of 2 PhD positions investigating the behavioral barriers of the green transition with me at University of Copenhagen. jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...
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Planning your climate or environment syllabus? I like to show short videos so students & I can visualize some of the things we're talking about. Here are some of the ones I like:
January 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Planning your climate or environment syllabus? I like to show short videos so students & I can visualize some of the things we're talking about. Here are some of the ones I like:
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The Department of Geography and Environment at LSE is hiring an Assistant Professor (Education) in Environmental Economics and Policy.
🗓️ Deadline: 16 February 2025 (23.59 UK time)
🔴 zurl.co/M8Nwy
This posting is arriving a bit late in the cycle, but please help circulate it widely!
🗓️ Deadline: 16 February 2025 (23.59 UK time)
🔴 zurl.co/M8Nwy
This posting is arriving a bit late in the cycle, but please help circulate it widely!
Assistant Professor (Education) in Environmental Economics and Policy
Assistant Professor (Education) in Environmental Economics and Policy,
,
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>As an equal opportunities employer strongly committed to diversity and inclusion, we&n...
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December 20, 2024 at 3:39 PM
The Department of Geography and Environment at LSE is hiring an Assistant Professor (Education) in Environmental Economics and Policy.
🗓️ Deadline: 16 February 2025 (23.59 UK time)
🔴 zurl.co/M8Nwy
This posting is arriving a bit late in the cycle, but please help circulate it widely!
🗓️ Deadline: 16 February 2025 (23.59 UK time)
🔴 zurl.co/M8Nwy
This posting is arriving a bit late in the cycle, but please help circulate it widely!
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We are advertising a PostDoc position in the Sustainability Economics Group at ETH Zurich (1-6 yrs, >$100K salary), offering excellent conditions to pursue innovative research projects & prepare for a professorship. Please spread the word to interested candidates: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
Postdoctoral Position in the Sustainability Economics Group
jobs.ethz.ch
December 12, 2024 at 12:00 PM
We are advertising a PostDoc position in the Sustainability Economics Group at ETH Zurich (1-6 yrs, >$100K salary), offering excellent conditions to pursue innovative research projects & prepare for a professorship. Please spread the word to interested candidates: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
Last week, “my” first two PhD students, Annika Stechemesser & Max Kotz, got two prestigious prizes for their dissertations - such a wonderful recognition of their creativity, talent and hard work. Below an overview and some links to their work:
December 2, 2024 at 7:48 PM
Last week, “my” first two PhD students, Annika Stechemesser & Max Kotz, got two prestigious prizes for their dissertations - such a wonderful recognition of their creativity, talent and hard work. Below an overview and some links to their work:
Reposted by Leonie Wenz
🎉 Congratulations to Maximilian Kotz, recipient of the 2024
Leibniz Dissertation Award for his exceptional research on the economic costs of climate change, conducted at PIK. 💐👏 His work examines the profound economic impact of #ClimateChange: www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
Leibniz Dissertation Award for his exceptional research on the economic costs of climate change, conducted at PIK. 💐👏 His work examines the profound economic impact of #ClimateChange: www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
November 28, 2024 at 12:18 PM
🎉 Congratulations to Maximilian Kotz, recipient of the 2024
Leibniz Dissertation Award for his exceptional research on the economic costs of climate change, conducted at PIK. 💐👏 His work examines the profound economic impact of #ClimateChange: www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
Leibniz Dissertation Award for his exceptional research on the economic costs of climate change, conducted at PIK. 💐👏 His work examines the profound economic impact of #ClimateChange: www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
Extremely happy for Max - so well deserved.
Maximilian Kotz bekommt heute den Nachwuchswissenschaftlerpreis der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft für seine Promotion mit Leonie Wenz und mir.
@leoniewenz.bsky.social
@leoniewenz.bsky.social
November 27, 2024 at 10:15 PM
Extremely happy for Max - so well deserved.
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Call for papers: CESifo / ifo Junior Workshop on Energy and Climate Economics (13 March 2025)!
Submit until 16 Dec!!!
www.cesifo.org/en/event/202...
Submit until 16 Dec!!!
www.cesifo.org/en/event/202...
CESifo / ifo Junior Workshop on Energy and Climate Economics 2025
Scientific Organizer: Maximilian AuffhammerCESifo and the ifo Institute will organize its second Junior Workshop on Energy and Climate Economics. The workshop is aimed at PhD students towards the end ...
www.cesifo.org
November 24, 2024 at 8:22 AM
Call for papers: CESifo / ifo Junior Workshop on Energy and Climate Economics (13 March 2025)!
Submit until 16 Dec!!!
www.cesifo.org/en/event/202...
Submit until 16 Dec!!!
www.cesifo.org/en/event/202...
Very happy and honored to be again among Germany‘s Top 40 under 40 this year!
Top 40 unter 40: PIK Forscherin Leonie Wenz ist zum zweiten Mal in Folge unter die "Deutschlands Top 40 unter 40" des Wirtschaftsmagazins Capital gewählt worden - herzlichen Glückwunsch! (Link geht zu Paywall Artikel)
www.capital.de/karriere/cap...
www.capital.de/karriere/cap...
November 15, 2024 at 4:40 PM
Very happy and honored to be again among Germany‘s Top 40 under 40 this year!
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Welche Forschung wollen politische Entscheidungsträger?
www.diejungeakademie.de/de/publikati...
Unser Debattenbeitrag für @jungeakademie.bsky.social @leoniewenz.bsky.social
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Unser Debattenbeitrag für @jungeakademie.bsky.social @leoniewenz.bsky.social
„Bridging the Gap“: Wie wissenschaftliche Beratung für die Umweltpolitik gelingen kann :: Die Junge Akademie
Mitglieder der Arbeitsgruppe Nachhaltigkeit der Jungen Akademie haben im Herbst 2023 in einer Diskussionsrunde mit 13 politischen Entscheidungsträger\*innen darüber gesprochen, wie Forschung zu Umwelt...
www.diejungeakademie.de
August 29, 2024 at 8:17 AM
Welche Forschung wollen politische Entscheidungsträger?
www.diejungeakademie.de/de/publikati...
Unser Debattenbeitrag für @jungeakademie.bsky.social @leoniewenz.bsky.social
www.diejungeakademie.de/de/publikati...
Unser Debattenbeitrag für @jungeakademie.bsky.social @leoniewenz.bsky.social