Professor Dr. Andreas Löschel
Ehemaliger Lehrstuhlinhaber
Chair of Microeconomics with a Focus on Energy and Resource Economics
loeschel@uni-muenster.de
www.loeschel.eu
Consultation hours:
by arrangement
Professor Andreas Löschel holds a chair for Energy and Resource Economics at the University of Münster and is Director of the Centre of Applied Economic Research Münster (CAWM) since 2014. Since 2011, he chairs the Energy Expert Commission of the German Government to monitor the energy transformation, and since 2017 he directs the Virtual Institute Smart Energy North Rhine-Westphalia. He is Lead Author of the Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6) of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) (2014-2017) and served as Lead Author in the Working Group III contribution to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (2010-2014). He is an advisor for Aurora Energy Research Limited, Oxford, a ZEW research fellow, a Fellow member of the CESifo Network, and a research fellow of the Australian National University (ANU). He is a member of the German National Academy of Science and Technology (acatech).
Andreas Löschel studied economics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Wayne State University and UCLA. He obtained his PhD from the University of Mannheim (2003) and his Habilitation (university teaching credential) in Economics from the University of Oldenburg (2009). 2007-2014 he was head of the department "Environmental and Resource Economics" at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim and since 2010 Professor of Economics at the University of Heidelberg. He was visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (2003), Stanford University (2005), ANU (2010, 2011), Tsinghua University Beijing (2013) and the University of Oxford (2017). He is a visiting professor at the University of International Business and Economics Beijing since 2014.
His research interests are in applied microeconomics, energy economics and the economics of climate change. Andreas Löschel advised the European Commission, the European Parliament, the OECD, the World Bank and national ministries in Germany, Switzerland and the UK on environmental, energy and climate change issues. He has published more than 55 articles in journals of the Social Sciences Citation Index like Applied Economics, Ecological Economics, Economica, Economics Letters, Energy Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics, European Economic Review, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Public Economics or the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). He is on the editorial boards of Climate Policy, The Energy Journal and Economics E-Journal and edited special issues for Economica, Energy Policy, Energy Economics and Resource and Energy Economics. The Handelsblatt ranking of German economists lists him among the Top-100 in 2017. In the Ranking of Economists of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (F.A.Z.), he was several times among the 50 most influential economists in Germany.
Ehemaliger Lehrstuhlinhaber
Chair of Microeconomics with a Focus on Energy and Resource Economics
Am Stadtgraben 9
48149
Münster
loeschel@uni-muenster.de
www.loeschel.eu
Consultation hours:
by arrangement
Professor Andreas Löschel holds a chair for Energy and Resource Economics at the University of Münster and is Director of the Centre of Applied Economic Research Münster (CAWM) since 2014. Since 2011, he chairs the Energy Expert Commission of the German Government to monitor the energy transformation, and since 2017 he directs the Virtual Institute Smart Energy North Rhine-Westphalia. He is Lead Author of the Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6) of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) (2014-2017) and served as Lead Author in the Working Group III contribution to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (2010-2014). He is an advisor for Aurora Energy Research Limited, Oxford, a ZEW research fellow, a Fellow member of the CESifo Network, and a research fellow of the Australian National University (ANU). He is a member of the German National Academy of Science and Technology (acatech).
Andreas Löschel studied economics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Wayne State University and UCLA. He obtained his PhD from the University of Mannheim (2003) and his Habilitation (university teaching credential) in Economics from the University of Oldenburg (2009). 2007-2014 he was head of the department "Environmental and Resource Economics" at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim and since 2010 Professor of Economics at the University of Heidelberg. He was visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (2003), Stanford University (2005), ANU (2010, 2011), Tsinghua University Beijing (2013) and the University of Oxford (2017). He is a visiting professor at the University of International Business and Economics Beijing since 2014.
His research interests are in applied microeconomics, energy economics and the economics of climate change. Andreas Löschel advised the European Commission, the European Parliament, the OECD, the World Bank and national ministries in Germany, Switzerland and the UK on environmental, energy and climate change issues. He has published more than 55 articles in journals of the Social Sciences Citation Index like Applied Economics, Ecological Economics, Economica, Economics Letters, Energy Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics, European Economic Review, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Public Economics or the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). He is on the editorial boards of Climate Policy, The Energy Journal and Economics E-Journal and edited special issues for Economica, Energy Policy, Energy Economics and Resource and Energy Economics. The Handelsblatt ranking of German economists lists him among the Top-100 in 2017. In the Ranking of Economists of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (F.A.Z.), he was several times among the 50 most influential economists in Germany.