Martin Quaas

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Martin Quaas

Martin Quaas (born January 29, 1974 in Düsseldorf ) is a German physicist , economist and university professor .

Scientific career

Martin Quaas studied from 1993 to 1998 at the University of Duisburg-Essen , where he obtained his diploma in theoretical physics in 1998 . In 2002 he received his doctorate in economics at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at Heidelberg University . From 2004 to 2007 he was a researcher ( postdoc ) at the Environmental Research Center in Leipzig and at the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands. Between 2007 and 2010 he was awarded a junior professorship at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . From 2010 to 2018 he was Professor of Environmental , Resource and Ecological Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel. Since October 2018 he has been Professor of Biodiversity Economics with a joint appointment at the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research - iDiv and at the University of Leipzig .

honors and awards

  • 1999–2002 PhD Fellowship, DFG research training group Environmental and Resource Economics , University of Heidelberg and Mannheim
  • 2005 Environment Prize of the Viktor and Sigrid Dulger Foundation (University of Heidelberg) for his doctoral thesis
  • 2006 Postdoc Fellowship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Research projects

  • 2007–2010 Sustainable Use of Ecosystem Services under Uncertainty
  • 2009–2012 BIOACID - Biological Impacts of Ocean Acidification
  • 2010–2012 FACTS - Forage Fish Interactions
  • 2010–2013 Efficient inter- and ragenerationally just use of ecosystem services (EIGEN)

Selected publications

  • Quaas, MF, Meya, JN, Schenk, H., Bos, B., Drupp, MA, Requate, T. (2020): The Social Cost of Contacts: Theory and Evidence for the Covid-19 Pandemic in Germany. CESifo Working Paper No. 8347 , online .
  • Quaas, MF, Baumgärtner, S., Drupp, MA, Meya, JN (2020): Intertemporal utility with heterogeneous goods and constant elasticity of substitution. Economic Letters, 19: 10909.
  • Quaas, MF, Quaas, J., Rickels, W., & Boucher, O. (2017). Are there reasons against open-ended research into solar radiation management? A model of intergenerational decision-making under uncertainty. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management , 84 , 1-17.
  • Baumgärtner, S., Drupp, MA, Meya, JN, Munz, JM, & Quaas, MF (2017). Income inequality and willingness to pay for environmental public goods. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management , 85 , 35-61.
  • Quaas, MF, Van Soest, D., & Baumgärtner, S. (2013). Complementarity, impatience, and the resilience of natural-resource-dependent economies. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management , 66 (1), 15-32.
  • Derissen, S., Quaas, MF, Baumgärtner, S. (2011) The relationship between resilience and sustainability of ecological-economic systems. Ecol. Econ. 70, 1121-1128.
  • Froese, R., Quaas, MF (2011) Three Options for Rebuilding the Cod Stock in the Eastern Baltic Sea. Mar. Ecol. Progr. Ser. 434, 197-200.
  • Baumgärtner, S., Quaas, MF (2010) What is sustainability economics? Ecol. Econ. 69, 445-450.
  • Baumgärtner, S., Quaas, MF (2009) Ecological-economic viability as a criterion of strong sustainability under uncertainty. Ecol. Econ. 68, 2008-2020.
  • Quaas, MF, Baumgärtner, S., Becker, C., Frank, K., Müller, B. (2007) Uncertainty and sustainability in the management of rangelands. Ecol. Econ. 62, 251-266.

Private

Quaas is married and has three children. His twin brother Johannes is a professor of theoretical meteorology at the University of Leipzig.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Renewal Proposal For a Cluster of Excellence The Future Ocean, The Future Ocean, August 8, 2011
  2. ↑ Martin Quaas' curriculum vitae on the website of the Institute for Environmental, Resource and Ecological Economics. Retrieved December 6, 2012 .
  3. ↑ a b New professor for biodiversity economics: Martin Quaas completes the iDiv research center. iDiv, September 27, 2018, accessed October 6, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Quaas, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist, economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf