Profile

Professional career

• since 09/2018
  Assistant Professor of Environmental and Energy Economics, Faculty of Economics and Management Science, University of Leipzig (Germany)
• since 09/2017
  Head of the Junior Research Group „Sustainable Deployment of Renewable Energies with Multiple Environmental Impacts – Policy Strategies to Mitigate Ecological Trade-offs of the Energy Transition“, Faculty of Economics and Management Science, University of Leipzig (Germany)
• 07/2008 - 08/2017
  Research Fellow, Department of Economics, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig (Germany)Since 04/2013: Spokesman of the interdisciplinary Working Group Energy cross-cutting UFZ social science departments
• 05/2016 - 10/2016
  Visiting Researcher, Institute for New Economic Thinking, University of Oxford (UK)
• 09/2005 - 12/2005
  Visiting Researcher, Resources for the Future, Washington, DC (USA)
• 08/2004 - 06/2005
  Research Assistant, Department of Economics, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig (Germany)

Education

• 01/2006 - 01/2010
  Dr. rer. pol. (equiv. Ph.D. in Economics), Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg (Germany) Grade: Summa cum laude Thesis: “Using a Policy Mix to Combat Climate Change – An Economic Evaluation of Policies in the German Electricity Sector” Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hansjürgens; Second Referee: Prof. Dr. Ahlert
• 10/1998 - 05/2004
  Diplom-Betriebswirt (equiv. MBA), University of Leipzig (Germany) Grade: 1.3 (1.0 maximum) Thesis: „An Economic Evaluation of the U.S. Conservation Reserve Program“ Erasmus student at Universidad de Deusto, San Sebastian (Spain), 10/2000 – 08/2001

• Environmental and Resource Economics, Energy Economics
• Institutional Economics and Political Economy
• Applied Microeconomics
• Applied to the analysis of energy, climate and water policy 

• Green stimulus and investment programs

  Gawel, Erik

  Duration: 11/2020 - 04/2022

  Funded by: Andere öffentliche Bereiche

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: VWL, Umwelt- und Energieökonomik
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• DEZ-ZIELKONFLIKTE - Decentralized energy system transformation between social justice, system costs and environmental protection - Conflicting goals and solution strategies

  Lehmann, Paul

  Duration: 06/2020 - 01/2022

  Funded by: BMWK Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: VWL, Umwelt- und Energieökonomik
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• Consideration of biological diversity and ecosystem functioning as a basis for sustainable wind energy production in forests

  Peter, Franziska

  Duration: 12/2019 - 11/2022

  Funded by: Stiftungen Inland

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: VWL, Umwelt- und Energieökonomik
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• Sustainable deployment of renewable energies with multiple environmental impacts - Policy strategies to address ecological trade-offs of the energy transition (MultiplEE)

  Lehmann, Paul

  Duration: 09/2017 - 08/2022

  Funded by: BMBF Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: VWL, Umwelt- und Energieökonomik
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more projects

• Grafström, J.; Söderholm, P.; Gawel, E.; Lehmann, P.; Strunz, S.

  Government support to renewable energy R&D: drivers and strategic interactions among EU Member States

  Economics of Innovation and New Technology. 2020. pp. 1-24

  DOI: 0.1080/10438599.2020.1857499
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• Lehmann, P.; Habermacher, F.

  Commitment Versus Discretion in Climate and Energy Policy

  Environmental and Resource Economics. 2020. 76 (1). pp. 39-67

  DOI: 10.1007/s10640-020-00414-3
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• Gawel, E.; Lehmann, P.

  Staatsprogramme gegen die Corona-Krise – eine Option für den Klimaschutz?

  Wirtschaftsdienst. 2020. 100 (7). pp. 510-515

  DOI: 10.1007/s10273-020-2697-0
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• Lehmann, P.; Ammermann, K.; Gawel, E.; Geiger, C.; Hauck, J.; Meier, J.-N.; Schicketanz, S.; Stemmer, B.; Tafarte, P.; Thrän, D.; Wolfram, E. E.

  Managing spatial sustainability trade-offs: The case of wind power

  2020
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