About

Felix Creutzig is Professor for Sustainability Economics of Human Settlements at the TU Berlin, and Group Leader at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change. He is speaker and scientific coordinator of the Einstein Center Climate Change and member of public district, municipal and national climate advisory boards. Previously he had been visiting fellow at Princeton University, the University of California, Berkeley, and the China Energy Foundation in Bejing. He holds a PhD in computational neuroscience/machine learning. His groundbreaking research on climate change mitigation on urban scale has been recognized by the Piers Sellers Prize of the University of Leeds in 2017. Felix Creutzig coordinated a chapter on demand, services and social aspects in the recent assessment report on climate solutions by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He is also leading a crosscutting effort introducing digitalization and AI in the context of climate change mitigation, both as method and as governance dimension.