Matthias Kalkuhl

Prof. Matthias Kalkuhl heads the Research Department 5 (RD5) "Climate Economics and Policy/MCC Berlin" and the working group "Welfare and Policy Design". He is also 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 CO₂ pricing and other climate policy measures, distribution and tax policy analyses, and models for financing global public goods such as climate protection and biodiversity.

He worked as a researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research from 2008 to 2012, received his doctorate from the Technical University of Berlin in 2012, and then worked as a project manager at the Center for Development Research at the University of Bonn. From 2015 to 2023, he worked at MCC Berlin as a working group leader, and from 2024 as co-director of MCC Berlin. Since 2025, he has been head of RD5 at PIK. He is also a member of the scientific advisory board of the Federal Agency for Civic Education.