As of February 1, 2023, Melanie Krause, Ph.D. holds the newly established W2 professorship for Sustainable Real Estate and Urban Development at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Leipzig. Melanie Krause received her PhD in 2014 on "Econometric Advances in the Analysis of Income Inequality Within and Between Countries" from Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University Frankfurt. Since 2015, she worked as an assistant professor of economics at the University of Hamburg. In April 2022, she took over the substitute professorship for Sustainable Real Estate and Urban Development at the Faculty of Economics at Alma Mater Lipsiensis.
Her work focuses on urban and regional economics, development economics, and income inequality. In her research and teaching, she focuses on issues such as sustainable urban growth, urban green spaces, housing markets, air quality, transportation networks, and differences between urban and rural areas. To this end, she works heavily quantitatively with large data sets and modern statistical techniques, including machine learning methods and geo-referenced data. Her work has been published in the Economic Journal, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Geography, and Journal of Applied Econometrics, among others.
The professorship is associated with the Institute of Urban Development. Prof. Ph.D. Krause's office is located in the faculty's institute building, Grimmaische Str. 12, Room I 308.
An interview of the university magazine with Prof. Krause can be found here.