Prof. Dr. Felix Creutzig

Head of working group Land Use, Infrastructure and Transport

Prof. Dr. Felix Creutzig

Prof. Dr. Felix Creutzig is head of the working group Land Use, Infrastructures and Transport and Chair of Sustainability Economics at Technische Universität Berlin. He was Coordinating Lead Author of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report and a Lead Author of the Fifth Assessment Report. He also was a lead analyst of the Global Energy Assessment. 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

Before joining the MCC and TU Berlin, Felix 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. From 2009 until 2011 Felix was also chair of Netzwerk Europa, the Alumni organization of the Studienkolleg zu Berlin.

 

Curriculum vitae

Detailed CV with list of publications

 

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Latest Publications

Creutzig, F., Reisch, L., 2024

A joint research agenda for climate action bridges behavioral sciences and urban planning

Communications Psychology
Type
Peer Review
Chen, M., Qian, Z., Boers, N., Creutzig, F., Camps-Valls, G., Hubacek, K., Claramunt, C., Wilson, J., Nativi, S., Jakeman, A., Müller, R., Batty, M., Zhou, C., Chen, F., Wang, Q., Zhang, F., Barton, C., Strobl, J., Meadows, M., Ratti, C., Hess, P., Xu, Q., Zhang, Z., Gu, Q., Zhu, A., Lin, H., Yuan, L., Lü, G., 2024

Collaboration between artificial intelligence and Earth science communities for mutual benefit

Nature Geoscience
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Peer Review
Bryant, C., Aiking, H., Alessandrini, R., Behrens, P., Creutzig, F., Eshel, G., Green, R., Hutchings, N., Leip, A., Milo, R., Smith, P., van Zanten, H. , 2024

The Dublin Declaration fails to recognize the need to reduce industrial animal agriculture

Nature Food
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Peer Review
Lu, C., Huang, Y., Yu, Y., Hu, J., Mo, H., Li, Y., Huo, D., Song, X., Huang, X., Sun, Y., Liu, K., Zhang, S., Morrissey, K., Hong, J., Deng, Z., Du, Z., Creutzig, F., Liu, Z., 2024

Health co-benefits of post-COVID-19 low-carbon recovery in Chinese cities

Nature Cities
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Peer Review
Creutzig, F., Becker, S., Berrill, P., Bongs, C., Bussler, A., Cave, B., Constantino, S.M., Grant, M., Heeren, N., Heinen, E., Hintz, J., Ingen-Housz, T., Johnson, E., Kolleck, N., Liotta, C., Lorek, S., Mattioli, G., Niamir, L., McPhearson, T., Milojevic-Dupont, N., Nachtigall, F., Nagel, K., Närger, H., Pathak, M., de Brichambaut, P., Reckien, D., Reich, L.A., Revi, A., Schuppert, F., Sudmant, A., Wagner, F., Walkenhorst, J., Weber, E., Wilmes, M., Wilson, C., Zekar, A., 2024

Towards a public policy of cities and human settlements in the 21st century

Urban Sustainability
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Peer Review