Profile

Professional career

• since 04/2023
  Assistant Professor in Nature’s Values at the Institute for Infrastructure and Resource Management (IIRM) of the Faculty of Economics and Management Science of Leipzig University
• 02/2019 - 04/2023
  Post-Doctoral researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in the Department of Transformation Pathways
• 04/2014 - 07/2018
  Researcher in the working group on Environmental, Resource and Ecological Economics at the Department of Economics of Kiel University

Education

• 04/2014 - 07/2018
  PhD in Quantitative Economics at Kiel University

Martin Hänsel's research focuses on the transformation of economic systems towards sustainability. Central topics are the economics of climate change and the economics and valuation of natural resources and public goods. Methodologically, his research includes economic theory (in particular growth and general equilibrium theory), econometric analyses and integrated assessment modelling. Besides its disciplinary foundation, Martin Hänsel's research often relies on interdisciplinary and international collaborations.

• ASMASYS II - F: Economic Valuation of Marine CO2 Removal Options

  Hänsel, Martin Christopher

  Duration: 07/2024 – 07/2027

  Funded by: BMFTR Bundesministerium für ­Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Inwertsetzung von Natur
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• Hänsel, M. C.; Bauer, M. D.; Drupp, M. A.; Wagner , G.; Rudebusch, G. D.

  Climate policy curves highlight key mitigation choices

  Climate Policy. 2024.

  DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2024.2392744
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• Drupp, M. A.; Hänsel, M. C.; Fenichel, E. P. et al.

  The increasing benefits from scarce ecosystems

  Science. 2024. 383 (6687).

  DOI: 10.1126/science.adk2086
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• Hänsel, M. C.; Kellner, M.; Franks, M.; Gruner, F.; Kalkuhl, M.; Knopp, F.; Edenhofer, O.

  Lessons Learned from the German Double Whammy: The Importance of Price Incentives and Targeted Compensation for the Design of Energy and Climate Policy

  Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. 2025. 19 (1). pp. 131–137.

  DOI: 10.1086/732190
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• Publikationspreis: Frontiers Planet Prize

  Hänsel, Martin Christopher (Inwertsetzung von Natur )

  awarded in 2024 by Frontiers Research Foundation.
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• Climate Economics (Master, regularly offered in the summer term)

  • Climate science basics
  • Impacts of climate change
  • Status quo of climate policy in Germany and worldwide
  • Benefit-Cost analysis, integrated assessment models and social cost of carbon
  • Normative aspects of welfare analysis with climate-economy models
  • Compatibility of climate protection and economic growth
  • Policy instruments and the trade-off between efficiency and distributive justice

• Nature's Values (Bachelor, regularly offered in the winter term)

  • History and significance of nature's values in economics
  • Normative and ethical foundations of valuing nature
  • Empirical methods of valuing nature (e.g. revealed and stated preferences)
  • Principles for a sustainable economic use of natural public goods (e.g. climate, fish stocks, forests)
  • Policy instruments for the protection of nature's values
  • Economic accounting of nature's values
  • Benefit-cost analyses for the integrated valuation of nature