Project leader
Vita
| since 2018 | Assistant professor for Environmental and Energy Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Management Science at the University of Leipzig in cooperation with the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig (Germany) |
| since 2017 | Head of the Junior Research Group "Sustainable Deployment of Renewable Energies with Multiple Environmental Impacts - Policy Strategies to mitigate Ecological Trade-offs of the Energy Transition", University Leipzig (Germany) |
| 2009-2017 | Research Fellow, Department of Economics, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig (Germany) (2013-2017: Spokesman of the interdisciplinary Working Group Energy cross-cutting UFZ social science departments) |
| 2016 | Visiting Researcher, Institute for New Economic Thinking, University of Oxford (UK) |
| 2010 | Dr. rer. pol. (equiv. Ph.D. in Economics), Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg (Germany) Grade: Summa cum laude Thesis: “Using a Policy Mix to Combat Climate Change – An Economic Evaluation of Policies in the German Electricity Sector” Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hansjürgens; Second Referee: Prof. Dr. Ahlert |
| 2006-2009 | Scholarship candidate of the Foundation of German Business (Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft), Department of Economics, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig (Germany) |
| 2005 | Visiting Researcher, Resources for the Future, Washington, DC (USA) |
| 2004-2005 | Research Assistant, Department of Economics, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig (Germany) |
| 1998-2004 | Diplom-Betriebswirt (equiv. MBA), University of Leipzig (Germany) Grade: 1.3 (1.0 maximum) Thesis: "An Economic Evaluation of the U.S. Conservation Reserve Program" Erasmus student at Universidad de Deusto, San Sebastian (Spain), 10/2000 – 08/2001 |
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Fields of Research
- Environmental and Resource Economics, Energy Economics
- Institutional Economics and Political Economy
- Applied Microeconomics
- Applied to the analysis of energy, climate and water policy
Recent / Upcoming Publications
- Frank, D., Schmid, E., Bauknecht, D., Epp, J., Lehmann, P., Reutter, F., Scheidler, V., Vogel, M., Wingenbach, M., (2022). „Zielkonflikte im energiepolitischen Zielviereck: Die dezentrale Energiewende zwischen Gerechtigkeit, Wirtschaftlichkeit, Versorgungssicherheit und Umweltschutz“. Germanwatch Diskussionspapier.
- Gawel, E., Lehmann, P., Purkus, A., Söderholm, P., Strunz, S. (2022). “Security of Supply as a Political Bargaining Issue: Why Germany Opted Against Capacity Markets”. Energy Research & Social Science, 86, Article 102321.
- Grafström, J., Söderholm, P., Gawel., E., Lehmann, P., Strunz, S. (2022). “Government Support to Renewable Energy R&D: Drivers and Strategic Interactions among EU Member States”. Economics of Innovation and New Technology.
- Lehmann, P., Gawel, E., Geiger, C., Hauck, J., Meier, J.-N., Tafarte, P., Thrän, D., Wolfram, E. (2022). „Der Windenergie an Land ausreichend Flächen bereitstellen“. MultiplEE Policy Brief.
- Weinand, J., Naber, E., McKenna, R., Lehmann, P., Kotzur, L., Stolten, D. (2022). “Historic drivers of onshore wind power and inevitable future trade-offs”. Environmental Research Letters.
Recent Media Coverage
- „Europa geht die Luft aus“ (by Stehle, A.), ZEIT Online, 17 June 2022.
- „Alles auf Abstand – Wie die Länder die Energiewende ausbremsen“, ARD Kontraste, 16 June 2022.
- „Wind-an-Land-Gesetz“, Lage der Nation LdN 293, 9 June 2022.
- „Windkraft schafft Konflikte in Bundesländern“ (by Zaremba, N.), Tagesspiegel Background, 8 June 2022.
- „Sachsen beschließt Abstandsregel für Windkraftanlagen – Grüne stimmen zu“ (by Kiel, V.), Spiegel Online, 1 June 2022.
- „Hauptversammlung Nordex – Standort Rostock wird ins Ausland verlagert“ (by Schröder, A.), Deutschlandfunk, 31 May 2022.
- „Nordex Rostock: Werksschließung beschlossene Sache“, NDR, 25 May 2022.
- „Fünf Ideen der Uni Leipzig: So kann an Land deutlich mehr Windenergie gewonnen werden“, MDR, 5 May 2022.
- „Windkraft-Gesetz nimmt Konturen an“ (by Hanke, S.), Tagesspiegel Background, 4 May 2022.
- „Ein Windrad vor jeder Haustür?“ (by Crysmann, T.), t-online.de, 13 January 2022.