Nicolai Hans has been a Scientific Associate at the office of the Council of Experts on Climate Change (ERK) since July 2022. He completed his Bachelor’s degree in Economics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and his Master’s degree in Applied Statistics at the University of Göttingen. After his studies, he interned at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC). Before joining the scientific staff of the ERK, he worked as a Research Assistant in the Statistics and Data Science research group at the Humboldt University of Berlin.
Dr. Katrin Kohnert has been a Scientific Associate at the office of the Council of Experts on Climate Change (ERK) since November 2021. Previously, she worked at the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries on climate change-induced changes in water bodies, in particular on greenhouse gas exchange between water bodies and the atmosphere. As part of her doctorate, she studied greenhouse gas emissions from Arctic permafrost regions as a Research Assistant at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences. She received her doctorate in Environmental Sciences from the Technical University of Braunschweig and studied Geoecology and Global Change Ecology at the University of Bayreuth with a semester abroad at the University of Iceland in Reykjavík.
Simon Schnier has been a Scientific Associate at the office of the Council of Experts on Climate Change (ERK) since September 2021. He completed his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Economics at the University of Münster, focusing on climate and environmental economics as well as empirical methods. During his studies, he worked at the Institute for Housing from 2015 to 2019 and at the Institute for Public and Regional Economics from 2019 to 2021. Furthermore, he completed an internship at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) in the Energy, Transport, Environment Department in 2018.
Dr. Franziska Schulz has been a Scientific Associate at the office of the Council of Experts on Climate Change (ERK) since October 2022. She completed her Master’s degree in Statistics at the Humboldt University of Berlin and her Bachelor’s degree in Econometrics and Operations Research at Maastricht University and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. During her PhD in Statistics and Econometrics at Humboldt University, her research focused on the development of probabilistic time series models to quantify risks in energy markets. Before joining the ERK, she worked at Energy Brainpool GmbH and the German Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety.