Dr. Felix Creutzig is head of the work­ing group Land Use, Infra­struc­tures and Trans­port. He is lead author of the IPCC’s Fifth Assess­ment Report and was lead ana­lyst of the Glob­al Ener­gy Assess­ment. Felix Creutzig teach­es cours­es about cli­mate change and infra­struc­tures at Tech­nis­che Uni­ver­sität Berlin. His research focus­es on:

•    Con­cep­tu­al­iz­ing and quan­ti­fy­ing GHG emis­sions of cities world-wide
•    Assess­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties for GHG mit­i­ga­tion of cities world-wide
•    Build­ing mod­els of sus­tain­able urban form and transport
•    Land rents as a com­ple­ment for financ­ing sus­tain­able infrastructures
•    Ana­lyz­ing the role of cap­i­tal stocks and infra­struc­tures for cli­mate change mitigation
•    Land use-medi­at­ed uncer­tain­ty in inte­grat­ed assess­ments, par­tic­u­lar­ly those relat­ed to bioenergy

Since 2009 Felix Creutzig is also group leader at the Depart­ment of the Eco­nom­ics of Cli­mate Change at Tech­nis­che Uni­ver­sität Berlin.  He was a post­doc fel­low at the Ener­gy and Resources Group at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, Berke­ley, col­lab­o­rat­ing with Dan Kam­men, Lee Schip­per and Eliz­a­beth Deakin, and the Ener­gy Foun­da­tion Chi­na in Bei­jing. Felix Creutzig received his PhD in Com­pu­ta­tion­al Neu­ro­science from Hum­boldt-Uni­ver­sität zu Berlin, and holds a Mas­ter of Advanced Stud­ies (Path III in Math­e­mat­ics) from Cam­bridge Uni­ver­si­ty, UK.