Daniel Gerdes

Portrait Daniel Gerdes

Daniel Gerdes BSc.MSc.
Centre for Global Change and Sustainability
Location Peter-Jordan-Straße 76, 1190 Wien
Email daniel.gerdes@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-99119

ORCID: 0000-0001-6545-1046, opens in new window.

Affordable and Clean Energy

Reduced Inequalities

Climate Change

classifications according to Statistics Austria:
Environmental economics Sustainable economics Development cooperation Climate change Environmental policy Development policy Political economy

Research Focus

Currently:

justice & equity in energy and mobility transitions (e.g. in the building sector in Austria)
(participatory) system-dynamic modeling
transdisciplinary research

in the past:

post-growth & socio-ecological transformation
interrelationships between international trade - development - sustainability (especially ecologically unequal exchange)
Ecological input-output modeling (EE-MRIO)
Agent-based modeling (ABM)

keywords

Ecological economics
Political economy & ecology
International trade - environment - development
Sustainability transformations
Degrowth & post-growth

Career

2022 Research associate, Foresight working group, Centre for Global Change and Sustainability
2021 - 2022 Research Assistant, Focus on environmental policy, Austrian Parliament
2020 MSc in Socio-Ecological Economics and Policy, Vienna University of Economics and Business (passed with honors)
2020 - 2021 Parliamentary Assistant, Focus on environmental policy, Austrian Parliament
2018 - 2019 Development cooperation trainee, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
2016 BSc in Economics, Vienna University of Economics and Business
2015 BA in International Development Studies, University of Vienna