Professor Leonie Wenz is deputy head of PIK's Complexity Science department and leads the Societal transition and wellbeing lab. She is Professor of Environmental Economics at Technical University Berlin. Her research focuses on the societal and economic costs of climate change with the aim of informing sustainable development pathways. Her research has been published in, among others, Nature, Science, PNAS, Lancet Planetary Health, and Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. She is an elected Member of the German Young Academy at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina as well as a CESifo research fellow. In 2023 and 2024 she was listed among Germany's Top 40 under 40.
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