Hi! My name is Florian, I’m a creative researcher with interest in Economics, Environment, Energy, Ethics, Etc. I’m interested in both, working on complex quantitative problems and on more argumentative logical debates.

Here you can find information on my research and a few random comments in what I’d theoretically hope to once make into a more regular blog on — hmm — maybe too wast a range of topics.

I founded Oxford Energy Economics, developing novel energy market analysis models to help understand and shape the transition towards a sustainable energy system. I am associate of the Swiss Institute for International Economics and Applied Economic Research (SIAW) at University of St. Gallen, and fellow of the CESifo Research Network in economics. As chair of the Oxford Institute for the Environment, Food and Animal Welfare, I’m leading the development of the world’s first food animal welfare compensation scheme (think of the application of the CO2-compensation concept to the domain of food animal welfare). Until July 2018 I was Head of Economics and Quantitative Methods at Aurora Energy Research in Oxford, where I wrote the major dynamic electricity market simulation models and built up the electricity & energy modelling team.

I love all sorts of unideological economics, especially if it’s about structuring the thinking on questions of public or environmental & social policy, or of ethical personal behavior: Beyond energy & climate economics and public policy, areas of interest include applied ethics – bioethics and animal welfare –, human evolution, the economics of individual environmental and ethical actions. My technical interest and quest for better understanding human and non-human minds make me increasingly interested in artificial intelligence. Prior to my current position, I have been carrying out my doctoral studies in the field of environmental and resource economics, working as a research assistant to the chair for Economic Policy of the SIAW at University of St. Gallen, and have undertaken research at the Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economics (OxCarre) as well as at the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), both at University of Oxford. Before discovering economics, I graduated with a Master in Environmental Sciences and Engineering at ETH Lausanne, EPFL.