Dr. Finn Müller-Hansen

Finn Müller-Hansen holds a PhD from Humboldt University of Berlin and a MSc in Physics from the Freie Universität Berlin. In his doctorate at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, he used network theory and agent-based modeling to study deforestation and land-use change in the Brazilian Amazon.

• Innovation and public perceptions of carbon removal
• Political economy of energy transitions
• Machine learning for mapping climate policy research and discourses
• Social-ecological modeling, complex networks and nonlinear dynamics

Link to: ORCID, Google Scholar

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Repke, T., Müller-Hansen, F., Cox, E., & Minx, J. C. (2024). Attention and positive sentiments towards carbon dioxide removal have grown on social media over the past decade. Communications Earth & Environment, 5(1), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01914-6

Callaghan, M., Müller-Hansen, F., Bond, M., Hamel, C., Devane, D., Kusa, W., O’Mara-Eves, A., Spijker, R., Stevenson, M., Stansfield, C., Thomas, J., & Minx, J. C. (2024). Computer-assisted screening in systematic evidence synthesis requires robust and well-evaluated stopping criteria. Systematic Reviews, 13(1), 284. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-024-02699-7

Minx, J. C., Hilaire, J., Müller-Hansen, F., Nemet, G., Diluiso, F., Andrew, R. M., Ayas, C., Bauer, N., Bi, S. L., Clarke, L., Creutzig, F., Cui, R. Y., Jotzo, F., Kalkuhl, M., Lamb, W. F., Löschel, A., Manych, N., Meinshausen, M., Oei, P.-Y., … Wiseman, J. (2024). Coal transitions—part 2: Phase-out dynamics in global long-term mitigation scenarios. Environmental Research Letters, 19(3), 033002. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad24cd

Repke, T., Callaghan, M., Lamb, W. F., Lück, S., Müller-Hansen, F., & Minx, J. C. (2024). How global crises compete for our attention: Insights from 13.5 million tweets on climate change during COVID-19. Energy Research & Social Science, 116, 103668. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2024.103668

Müller-Hansen, F., Repke, T., Baum, C., Brutschin, E., Callaghan, M.W., Debnath, R., Lamb, W.F., Low, S., Lück, S., Roberts, C., Sovacool, B.K., Minx, J.C. (2023). Attention, sentiments and emotions towards emerging climate technologies on Twitter. Global Environmental Change, 83, 102765. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2023.102765

Nemet, G., Greene, J., Müller-Hansen, F., Minx, J.C. (2023). Dataset on the adoption of historical technologies informs the scale-up of emerging carbon dioxide removal measures. Communications Earth & Environment, 4, 397. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-01056-1

Creutzig, F., Hilaire, J., Nemet, G., Müller-Hansen, F., Minx, J.C. (2023). Technological innovation enables low cost climate change mitigation. Energy Research & Social Science, 105, 103276. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.103276

Manych, N., Müller-Hansen, F., Steckel, J.C. (2023). The political economy of coal across 12 countries: Analysing qualitative interviews with topic models. Energy Research & Social Science, 101, 103137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.103137

Debnath, R., Reiner, D.M., Sovacool, B.K., Müller-Hansen, F., Repke, T., Alvarez, R.M., Fitzgerald, S. (2023). Conspiracy spillovers and geoengineering. iScience, 26, 106166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.106166

Tiedemann, S., Müller-Hansen, F. (2023). Auctions to phase out coal power: Lessons learned from Germany. Energy Policy, 174, 113387. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2022.113387

Müller-Hansen, F., Lee, Y. T., Callaghan, M. W., Jankin, S., Minx, J. C. (2022). The German Coal Debate on Twitter: Reactions to a Corporate Policy Process. Energy Policy, 169, 113178. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2022.113178

Müller-Hansen, F., Callaghan, M. W., Lee, Y. T., Leipprand, A., Flachsland,  C., Minx,  J. C. (2021). Who cares about coal? Analyzing 70 years of German parliamentary debates on coal with dynamic topic modeling. Energy Research & Social Science, 72, 101869. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2020.101869

Kittel, T., Müller-Hansen, F., Koch, R., Heitzig, J., Deffuant, G., Mathias, J. D., Kurths, J. (2021). From lakes and glades to viability algorithms: automatic classification of system states according to the topology of sustainable management. European Physical Journal: Special Topics, 230, 3133-3152. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjs/s11734-021-00262-2

Diluiso, F., Walk, P., Manych, N., ..., Müller-Hansen, F., ..., Minx, J. C. (2021). Coal transitions - Part 1: A systematic map and review of case study learnings from regional, national, and local coal phase-out experiences. Environmental Research Letters, 16(11), 113003. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac1b58

Creutzig, F., Callaghan, M., Ramakrishnan, A., ..., Müller-Hansen, F., ...,  Wilson, C. (2021). Reviewing the scope and thematic focus of 100 000 publications on energy consumption, services and social aspects of climate change: A big data approach to demand-side mitigation. Environmental Research Letters, 16(3). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abd78b

Callaghan, M. W. & Müller-Hansen, F. (2020). Statistical stopping criteria for automated screening in systematic reviews. Systematic Reviews, 9, 273. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-020-01521-4

Müller-Hansen, F., Callaghan, M. W., & Minx, J. C. (2020). Text as big data: Develop codes of practice for rigorous computational text analysis in energy social science. Energy Research & Social Science, 70, 101691. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2020.101691

Lamb, W. F., Antal, M., Bohnenberger, K., Brand-Correa, L.I., Müller-Hansen, F., Jakob, M., Minx, J. C., Raiser, K., Williams, L., & Sovacool, B. (2020). What are the social outcomes of climate policies? A systematic map and review of the ex-post literature. Environmental Research Letters, 15(11), 113006. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abc11f

Kolb, J. J., Müller-Hansen, F.,  Kurths, J., & Heitzig, J. (2020). Macroscopic approximation methods for the analysis of adaptive networked agent-based models: Example of a two-sector investment model. Physical Review E, 102, 042311. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.102.042311

Lamb, W. F., Mattioli, G., Levi, S., Roberts, T., Capstick, S., Creutzig, F., Minx, J., Müller-Hansen, F., Culhane, T., &  Steinberger, J. K. (2020). Discourses of climate delay. Global sustainability, 3, e17, https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2020.13
Press release: https://www.mcc-berlin.net/en/news/information/information-detail/article/the-argumentation-patterns-of-climate-action-preventers.html

Donges, J. F., Heitzig, J., Barfuss, W., Kassel, J. A., Kittel, T., Kolb, J. J., Kolster, T., Müller-Hansen, F., Otto, I. M., Wiedermann, M., Zimmerer, K. B., & Lucht,  W. 2020. Earth system modelling with complex dynamic human societies: the copan:CORE World-Earth modeling framework. Earth System Dynamics, 11, 395-413. https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-11-395-2020

Müller-Hansen, F., Heitzig, J., Donges, J. F., Cardoso, M.F., Dalla-Nora, E. L., Andrade, P., Kurths, J., & Thonicke, K. (2019). Can Intensification of Cattle Ranching Reduce Deforestation in the Amazon? Insights From an Agent-based Social-Ecological Model. Ecological Economics, 159, pp. 198-211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.12.025

Ciemer, C., Boers, N., Hirota, M., Kurths, J., Müller-Hansen, F., Oliveira,  R.S., & Winkelmann, R. (2019). Higher resilience to climatic disturbances in tropical vegetation exposed to more variable rainfall. Nature Geoscience, 12, pp. 174-179. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-019-0312-z

Müller-Hansen, F., Schlüter, M., Mäs, M., Donges, J. F., Kolb, J. J., Thonicke, K., & Heitzig, J. (2017). Towards representing human behavior and decision making in Earth system models -- an overview of techniques and approaches. Earth System Dynamics, 8, pp. 977-1007. https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-8-977-2017

Donges, J. F., Lucht, W., Müller-Hansen, F., &  Steffen, W. (2017). The technosphere in Earth System analysis: A coevolutionary perspective. The Anthropocene Review, 4(1), pp. 23-33. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053019616676608

Müller-Hansen, F., Cardoso, M. F., Dalla-Nora, E. L., Donges, J. F., Heitzig, J., Kurths, J. & Thonicke, K.  (2017). A matrix clustering method to explore patterns of land-cover transitions in satellite-derived maps of the Brazilian Amazon. Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 24, pp. 113-123. https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-24-113-2017

Fauser, H., Kersting, F., Müller-Hansen, F., & Sacharow, A. (2016). Missing bridges: a pluralist analysis of the debate on Capital in the Twenty-First Century. International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education, 7(3), pp. 300 - 322. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJPEE.2016.079693

Müller-Hansen, F., Droste, F., & Lindner, B. (2015). Statistics of a neuron model driven by asymmetric colored noise. Physical Review E, 91, 022718. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.91.022718

Other Publications

Smith, S. M., Geden, O., Gidden, M. J., Lamb, W. F., Nemet, G. F., Minx, J. C., Buck, H., Burke, J., Cox, E., Edwards, M. R., Fuss, S., Johnstone, I., Müller-Hansen, F., Pongratz, J., Probst, B. S., Roe, S., Schenuit, F., Schulte, I., & Vaughan, N. E. (2024). The State of Carbon Dioxide Removal — 2nd Edition. https://osf.io/f85qj/

Smith, S. M., Geden, O., Nemet, G., Gidden, M., Lamb, W. F., Powis, C., Bellamy, R., Callaghan, M., Cowie, A., Cox, E., Fuss, S., Gasser, T., Grassi, G., Greene, J., Lück, S., Mohan, A., Müller-Hansen, F., Peters, G., Pratama, Y., Repke, T., Riahi, K., Schenuit, F., Steinhauser, J., Strefler, J., Valenzuela, J. M., and Minx, J. C. (2023). The State of Carbon Dioxide Removal – 1st Edition.
https://www.stateofcdr.org/s/SoCDR-1st-edition.pdf

Levi, S., Müller-Hansen, F., Lamb, W. F., Mattioli, G., Roberts, J. T., Capstick, S., Creutzig, F., Minx, J.C., Culhane, T., & Steinberger, J. K. (2021). Klimaschutz-Ausreden. In: Dohm, L., Peter, F., & van Bronswijk, K. (Eds.), Climate Action - Psychologie der Klimakrise} (pp. 89-104). Gießen: Psychosozial-Verlag. https://www.psychosozial-verlag.de/3110

F. Müller-Hansen: Ökologische Krise und grüne Ökonomie – eine Einführung. Beitrag für www.exploring-economics.org, 2016.

F. Müller-Hansen: Economic Framing: Environmental Governance and Teaching Pluralist Economics
Contribution to the Anthropocene Curriculum 2016, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2016.

F. Ueckerdt, G. Luderer, F. Müller-Hansen:  Analyse des Klimaschutzpotentials der Nutzung von erneuerbarem Wasserstoff und Methan. Abschlussbericht des Forschungsvorhabens G 8/01/11 für den Deutschen Verein des Gas- und Wasserfaches (DVGW) e.V., 2013 (pdf).