Short biography

Dr. Bernd Hansjürgens is Professor for economics, especially environmental economics at Martin- Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, head of the Department of Economics at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, and leader of the UFZ research area “Environment and Society” (staff about 100 persons). From 2003-2013 he was speaker of the Helmholtz Programme “Terrestrial Environment” (500 scientists from three Helmholtz Centres included) and from 2007-2012 of the Helmholtz Research Initiative “Risk Habitat Megacity”. The international United Nations’ TEEB study “The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity” (2007-2010) was coordinated in the UFZ economics department. From 2012 2 to 2018 Bernd Hansjürgens led the study “Naturkapital Deutschland – TEEB DE”, with more than 300 researchers involved.
Dr. Hansjürgens received his Ph.D. in economics at Philipps University of Marburg. From 1995- 1996 he was visiting fellow at the Centre for Study of Public Choice in Fairfax/VA (USA), and from 1996 to 1997 at the Centre for interdisciplinary research at University of Bielefeld. His primary scientific interests are questions related to environmental economics, in particular instrument choice in environmental policy, climate change policies, economic valuation, the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity, and megacity research. His methodological backgrounds are Public Finance, New Institutional Economics, and Environmental and Resource Economics. Dr. Hansjürgens has written and published more than 25 books and more than 200 papers and book chapters. He has broad experience in inter- and trans-disciplinary environmental research and coordinated a lot of national and international research projects. He was involved in numerous scientific evaluations.

Curriculum vitae                                                                                                                   
1982-1986        Study of Economics at Philipps-University Marburg, Germany
1987-1999        Research Assistant (1987-1991) and Assistant Professor (1992-1998) at the Faculty of Economics at Philipps-University Marburg, Germany
1991                 PhD in Economics
1995-1997        Habilitation Grant of the German Research Council (DFG)
1995-1996        Research Fellow at the Centre for Study of Public Choice, George Mason-University, Fairfax, Va., USA
1998                 Habilitation in economics / public finance
1998-1999        Research Fellow at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Bielefeld, working group “Rationale Umweltpolitik – rationales Umweltrecht”
since 1999       Professor for Economics, especially Environmental Economics, at Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and Head of the Department Economics at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle (UFZ)
2003-2012       Programme Speaker of the Helmholtz Programme “Sustainable Use of Landscapes” 2007-2012        Speaker of the Helmholtz Research Initiative “Risk Habitat Megacity”
2012-2018       Study Leader of “Natural Capital Germany – TEEB DE (The Economics of Ecosystem and Biodiversity”)
Since 2018      Proramme Topic Speaker of the Helmholtz Programme “Terrestrial Environment”

Activities in the scientific community, honors, awards                                                                                                                    
since 1995    German Economic Association, Section of Environmental and Resource Economics
2005-2012    Member of several Evaluation Committees of Economic Leibniz Research Institutes in Germany (DIW, IfW, RWI, IfO-Institut, ZBW)
2005-2006       Member of Evaluation Committee of the Federal Research Ministry’s Programme “Socio-ecological Research”
since 2008    German Economic Association, Section of “Economic Systems and New Institutional Economics
2009-2011        Evaluation of the Swiss Competence Centre for Environment and Sustainability (CES)
2009-2013       Steering Board of NSP 61 (Swiss National Research Programme on “Sustainable Water Management”)
2012-2018     Steering Board of NSP 61 (Swiss National Research Programme on “Soil as a Resource”)
since 2010       Scientific Advisory Board of Institute for Socio-Ecological Research (Chairman) and Centre for Agrucultural Research (U`ZALF) since 2017
since 2013       Member of German’s Bishop Conference expert commission on social and ecological questions
since 2015       Member of Saxony Academy of Science
since 2015       Federal Environmental Agency (Umweltbundesamt), Commission on Soil Protection (chairman since 2017)
since 2018       Scientific Advisory Board of ZALF (Center for agricultural landscape), Müncheberg
since 2018       Chairman Scientific Advisory Board Academy of Landscape Research and Planning (ARL)
since 2020       Member of scientific advisory board of WWF Germany
since 2020       Member of Deutsches Klima Konsortium (Vorstand)

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