04: Physics meets economics – climate science and policy
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Hauptschule
Seminar
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in englischer SpracheFrom ‘known knowns’ to ‘known unknowns’ and ‘unknown unknowns’: We will start the seminar with what is known about climate change but quickly move well beyond toward what we know we don’t know, and to some of the more vexing questions. That is also where policy – and politics – enters. Much like the basic science, the fundamental “solution” has been known for over a century. That doesn’t mean it’s easy to tackle. In fact, climate change may well be the “perfect” public policy problem. In our quest to find some answers, we will venture well beyond classroom discussions to measure aerosols on the Wiedersbergerhorn and stage a debate about the science and some of the solutions.
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Dr. Gernot WAGNER
Research Associate, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Executive Director, Harvard's Solar Geoengineering Program, Cambridge
| 2002 | Joint BA in Environmental Science and Public Policy, and Economics Harvard University, Cambridge, MA |
| 2003 | MA in Economics, Stanford University, CA |
| 2006 | MA in Economy and Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA |
| 2007 | PhD in Political Economy and Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA |
| Leader Writer Team, Peter Martin Fellow, Financial Times, London | |
| 2007-2008 | Consultant, The Boston Consulting Group, New York |
| 2011-2012 | Adjunct Assistant Professor, Columbia University, New York |
| 2012-2016 | Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia University, New York |
| 2016 | Adjunct Associate Professor, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University |
| 2008-2013 | Economist, Environmental Defense Fund New York, New York and Boston, MA |
| 2013-2014 | Senior Economist, Environmental Defense Fund New York, New York and Boston, MA |
| 2014-2016 | Lead Senior Economist, Environmental Defense Fund New York, New York and Boston, MA |
| since 2016 | Research Associate and Lecturer, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA |
Dr. Bernadett WEINZIERL
Professor, Aerosol and Cluster Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna
| 2002 | Church musician, Amt für Kirchenmusik, Munich |
| 2004 | University Diploma degree, Meteorology, Faculty of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität (LMU), Munich |
| 2004-2007 | Ph.D. Student, Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IPA), German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen |
| 2006 | German and U.S. Private Pilot License (JAR-FCL PPL-A), DLR Flight Club, Oberpfaffenhofen, and Longmont Flight School, Colorado |
| 2008 | |
| 2007-2010 | Aerosol scientist, DLR-IPA, Oberpfaffenhofen |
| 2008 | Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.), Faculty of Physics, LMU, Munich |
| 2008-2009 | Visiting scientist, Droplet Measurement Technologies and CIRES/NOAA, Boulder, Colorado |
| 2010-2016 | Group leader, Helmholtz-University Young Investigators Group AerCARE, DLR-IPA, Oberpfaffenhofen, and LMU, Munich |
| 2011-2016 | Junior Professor for Experimental Aerosol Physics, Faculty of Physics, LMU, Munich |
| 2015-2016 | Head, Aerosol Group, DLR-IPA, Oberpfaffenhofen |
| since 2016 | Professor for Aerosol- and Cluster Physics and Head of the Aerosol Physics and Environmental Physics Group, Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna |
