Contact
14412 Potsdam
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Professional Experience
Since 01/2020
Deputy head of research department Complexity Science at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
Since 09/2019
Head of working group Data-based Analysis of Climate Decisions at PIK
Since 09/2018
Principal investigator of Impactee project (funded by Volkswagen foundation)
Since 09/2012
Fellow at Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) in Berlin
09/18-08/19
Postdoc at Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ARE) at University of California (UC), Berkeley
05/16-08/18
Postdoc in working group Global Adaptation Strategies at PIK
02-05/2015
Research stay at Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ARE) at University of California (UC), Berkeley
Education
2016
Ph.D. in Climate Physics/Economics
Grade: summa cum laude
Thesis title: Climate change impacts in an increasingly connected world
First supervisor: Prof. Anders Levermann (Physics, University of Potsdam)
Second supervisor: Prof. Maximilian Auffhammer (Economics, UC Berkeley)
Awards: Scholarship by Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt, prize for best PhD thesis awarded by Friends & supporters of PIK, Leibniz dissertation award
2012
M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Mathematics at Philipps University of Marburg, Germany
Grade: very good (1.3/A)
Minors: Psychology
M.Sc. thesis in number theory (grade: 1.0/A+; supervisor: Prof. J. Hinz)
2007
Abitur at Gymnasium Edertalschule in Frankenberg, Germany
Grade: 1.0/A+
- Environmental economics
- Societal and economic impacts of climate change
- Social cost of carbon
- Climate & globalisation
- Sustainable development
T. Beaufils, H. Ward, M. Jakob, L. Wenz*
Assessing different European Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism implementations and their impact on trade partners. Nature Communications Earth & Environment (2023). DOI 10.1038/s43247-023-00788-4
Press release by PIK
Data & code
T. Beaufils, E. Berthet, H. Ward, L. Wenz
Beyond production and consumption: Using throughflows to untangle the virtual trade of externalities.
Economic Systems Research (2023). https://doi.org/10.1080/09535314.2023.2174003
Data & code
K. Barton-Henry & L. Wenz*
Nighttime light data reveal lack of full recovery after hurricanes in Southern US
Environmental Research Letters (2022) https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac998d
Code
A. Stechemesser, A. Levermann, L. Wenz*
Temperature impacts on hate speech online: evidence from four billion tweets
The Lancet Planetary Health (2022) https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(22)00173-5
>> The Lancet Planetary Health cover
>> Press release
>> Selected media coverage: The Guardian | Bloomberg | EuroNews | ZDF Heute | Spiegel Online | Ärzteblatt | Tagesspiegel | RBB24
M. Jakob, S. Afionis, [...], L. Wenz, S.N. Willner
How trade policy can support the climate agenda
Science (2022) DOI: 10.1126/science.abo4207
>> Press releases by MCC and PIK
L. Wenz* & S.N. Willner
Climate impacts and global supply chains: an overview [Book chapter]
Handbook on Trade Policy and Climate Change [edited by M. Jakob] (2022).
The effect of rainfall changes on economic production
Nature (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-04283-8
A. Stechemesser, L. Wenz*, M. Kotz, A. Levermann
Strong increase of racist tweets outside of climate comfort zone in Europe
Environmental Research Letters (2021). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac28b3
M. Kotz, L. Wenz, A. Levermann
Footprint of greenhouse forcing in daily temperature variability
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2103294118
T. Beaufils & L. Wenz*
A scenario-based method for projecting multi-regional input-output tables
Economic Systems Research (2021). https://doi.org/10.1080/09535314.2021.1952404
M. Kalkuhl, M. Kotz, L. Wenz*
DOSE - The MCC-PIK Database Of Subnational Economic output (Version 1) [Data set]
Zenodo (2021). http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4681306
K. Kuhla, S.N. Willner, C. Otto, L. Wenz, A. Levermann
Future heat stress to reduce people's purchasing power
PLoS ONE 16 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251210
>> Selected media coverage: Deutschlandfunk | WDR 5 | MDR | TAZ | Süddeutsche Zeitung
Day-to-day temperature variability reduces economic growth.
Nature Climate Change (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-00985-5
>> Data & code
>> Informed US White House Council of Economic Advisors White Paper on climate-related macroeconomic risks
>> Informed NGFS Climate Scenarios for central banks and supervisors
>> Selected media coverage: Frankfurter Rundschau (print) | Heise Online | Business Insider
>> Selected media coverage: Carbon Brief | The Guardian | Spiegel Online (german) | Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (german) | El País (spanish) | NRC Handesblad (dutch)
>> Radio interview discussing the study in Deutschlandfunk (german)
>> Motivated parliamentary enquiry on the resilience of the German economy
>> Response by German government
>> Informed stakeholder dialogue on the indirect effects of global climate change on the German economy organized by the Federal Environmental Agency (UBA)
- Impact of intensified weather extremes on Europe's economy
- Funded by Volkswagen Foundation as part of the Europe & global challenges initiative (2017-2023)
- Joint with Columbia University (A. Sobel), UC Berkeley (M. Auffhammer) and University of Sydney (M. Lenzen)
- More information: http://portal.volkswagenstiftung.de/search/projectDetails.do?ref=93350
- Additional module: What can we learn from the Corona crisis to enhance our societies' resilience to intensified weather extremes?
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Elected Member of German Young Academy (Junge Akademie) at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science and National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellowship in Natural Resource Economics and Political Economy
- Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics (mentor: Prof. Max Auffhammer)
- prizewinner in category Natural and Technical Sciences
- press releases by Potsdamer Neuste Nachrichten and PIK
- selected for participation as young economist
- sponsored by Mars Inc. and Leibniz Association
- prize for best Ph.D. thesis 2016
- awarded by Society of Friends & Promoters of PIK
- scholarship for dissertation project
- awarded by German Environmental Foundation (Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt, DBU)
- scholarship for research stay at UC Berkeley
- awarded by German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)