Georg Weizsäcker
Georg Heinrich Freiherr von Weizsäcker (born October 10, 1973 in Munich ) is a German economist and professor of economics at the Humboldt University in Berlin .
Life
He studied economics at Humboldt University and the University of California at Berkeley and received his PhD from Harvard University in 2004 . He then went to the London School of Economics and Political Science and the University College London and became a professor at both universities in 2010. From 2011 to 2013 he was Vice President of the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin, where he continues to work as Research Director. In 2012 Weizsäcker was appointed to the chair for “Microeconomic Theory and Its Applications” at the Humboldt University. The European Research Council is promoting its work significantly until 2016 within the framework of its targeted support for top researchers. In 2017 Weizsäcker received the Gossen Prize .
His parents are the mathematician Heinrich Wolfgang von Weizsäcker and the doctor Dorothea Grassmann. He is married to the economist Dorothea Kübler .
Web links
- Website of the chair of Georg Weizsäcker
- Georg Weizsäcker in the Research Papers in Economics database
- Literature by and about Georg Weizsäcker in the catalog of the German National Library
- Georg Weizsäcker - Profile of the Humboldt University of Berlin
Individual evidence
- ↑ EU funding. Germany's economists receive millions. Handelsblatt, November 27, 2010. Retrieved April 3, 2015.
- ↑ Catherine Hoffmann: A researcher of feelings. Süddeutsche Zeitung, August 19, 2015; accessed on February 14, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weizsäcker, Georg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Weizsäcker, Georg Heinrich Freiherr von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German economist and professor of economics at the Humboldt University in Berlin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 10, 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |