Felix Creutzig

Felix Creutzig (* 1979 in Hanover ) is a German physicist and university professor. Since 2017 he has been Professor for Sustainability Economics of Human Settlements at the Technical University of Berlin .

academic career

After graduating from high school in Hanover, Creutzig studied physics and medicine at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg . After completing his intermediate diploma and physics there, he worked in the laboratory at Harvard Medical School in 2002 before earning a master's degree from the University of Cambridge in 2003 . He then worked on a project at the Studienkolleg in Berlin and in 2005 moved to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . Parallel doctorate he 2003-2007 at the Humboldt University of Berlin with a thesis on "Sufficient encoding of dynamical systems" to Dr. rer. nat. in biophysics .

As a postdoc he went to the Berkeley Institute of the Environment at the University of California, Berkeley and then worked from 2009 to 2012 at the TU Berlin as a group leader on a project on the economics of climate change . After further research stays at other institutions, he became group leader of a working group on land use, infrastructure and transport at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change in 2012 . In 2017 he received a newly created chair as Professor for Sustainability Economics of Human Settlements at the TU Berlin .

Creutzig is a member of the German Physical Society and was involved as an author on reports of the IPCC . Among other things, he was co-author of several chapters in the Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation and in the Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC ; in the latter he was also one of the lead authors of the “Transport” chapter (Working Group III). He was also involved in several other reports from other organizations such as B. the UCCRN and 2016 involved for the US government.

In the sixth assessment report of the IPCC , Creutzig will act as one of the two coordinating lead authors of the chapter on "Demand, services and social aspects of climate protection".

Creutzig is a Senior Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• Daniel Bongardt et al .: Low-Carbon Land Transport . Routledge 2013, ISBN 978-1-84971-377-1 .
• Felix Creutzig et al .: Energy, Power, Reason. The comprehensive view of the energy transition . Aachen 2008, ISBN 978-3-86858-070-9 .
• Felix Creutzig: Sufficient encoding of dynamical systems. From the grasshopper auditory system to general principles. Dissertation Berlin 2007.

Journal contributions

• Felix Creutzig et al .: The mutual dependence of negative emission technologies and energy systems . In: Energy and Environmental Science . tape 12 , 2019, pp. 1805 ff ., doi : 10.1039 / c8ee03682a .
• Felix Creutzig et al .: The underestimated potential of solar energy to mitigate climate change . In: Nature Energy . tape 2 , no. 17140 , 2017, doi : 10.1038 / nenergy.2017.140 .
• Pete Smith et al .: Biophysical and economic limits to negative CO2 emissions . In: Nature Climate Change . tape 6 , 2016, p. 42-50 , doi : 10.1038 / nclimate2870 .
• Felix Creutzig et al .: Bioenergy and climate change mitigation: an assessment . In: Global Change Biology. Bioenergy . tape 7 , no. 5 , 2015, p. 916-944 , doi : 10.1111 / gcbb.12205 .
• Felix Creutzig et al .: Global typology of urban energy use and potentials for an urbanization mitigation wedge . In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . tape 112 , no. 20 , 2015, p. 6283-6288 , doi : 10.1073 / pnas.1315545112 .
• Felix Creutzig et al .: Transport: A roadblock to climate change mitigation? In: Science . tape 350 , no. 6263 , 2015, p. 911-912 , doi : 10.1126 / science.aac8033 .
• Felix Creutzig et al .: Catching two European birds with one renewable stone: Mitigating climate change and Eurozone crisis by an energy transition . In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews . tape 38 , 2014, p. 1015-1028 , doi : 10.1016 / j.rser.2014.07.028 .
• Felix Creutzig et al .: Reconciling top-down and bottom-up modeling on future bioenergy deployment . In: Nature Climate Change . tape 2 , 2012, p. 320-327 , doi : 10.1038 / nclimate1416 .

Awards (selection)

Piers Sellers Prize 2017

Web links

• Literature by and about Felix Creutzig in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of the Tu Berlin
• Website at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change
• Personal website
• resume

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Felix Creutzig appointed professor . MCC press release. Retrieved January 17, 2018.
2. ↑ https://www.climatecon.tu-berlin.de/menue/team/researchers/dr_felix_creutzig/
3. ↑ Working Group III contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6-WG3) . IPCC website. Retrieved February 25, 2020.
4. ↑ people. Felix Creutzig. In: IASS Potsdam. Institute for Transformative Sustainability Research. Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies eV (IASS), accessed on October 27, 2019 . 
5. ↑ https://climate.leeds.ac.uk/opportunities/piers-sellers-prize/