PIK - Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Franziska Funke is a doctoral researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and an associate researcher at Technische Universität Berlin, both since May 2021. Prior experience includes serving as a research assistant on the project "Optimal meat taxation in the environmental-behavioural second-best" at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, as well as a pre-doctoral visiting student focused on the Economics of Sustainability at the International Institute for Sustainable Development. Franziska has also interned with the UN Environment Programme, supporting clean energy finance projects, and with the International Carbon Action Partnership, contributing to emissions trading databases. Academic qualifications include an MSc in Philosophy and Public Policy with distinction from The London School of Economics and Political Science and a Bachelor's degree from the University of Münster, with an exchange semester at Sciences Po Lille.
PIK - Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
At PIK, researchers in the natural and social sciences from all over the world work closely together to study global change and its impacts on ecological, economic and social systems. Researchers examine the earth system's capacity for withstanding human interventions and devise strategies and options for a sustainable development of humankind and nature. Interdisciplinary and solution-oriented approaches are a distinctive characteristic of the institute.