Prof. Dr. Matthias Kalkuhl heads the " Climate Economics and Policy " department and the " Welfare and Policy Design " working group. He is also a professor of economic growth, climate change, and development at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Potsdam. His research areas include carbon pricing and other climate policy measures, distributional and tax policy analyses, and models for financing global common goods such as climate protection and biodiversity.
He worked as a research associate at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research from 2008 to 2012, received his doctorate from TU Berlin in 2012, and subsequently worked as a project leader at the Center for Development Research at the University of Bonn. From 2015 to 2023, he worked at the MCC Berlin as a working group leader, and from 2024 onwards as co-director of the MCC-Berlin, which was integrated into PIK as a new department in 2025.