Felix Creutzig

Felix Creutzig heads the group "Land use, infrastructures and transport" at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change in Berlin, following postdoctoral positions in Princeton and Berkeley. Felix was lead author of the Fifth IPCC Assessment Report on transportation, and lead analyst of the Global Energy Assessment transport chapter. He teaches Industrial Metabolism, Urban Economics and Climate Change. His research interests focus on the role of urban infrastructures for climate change mitigation, inter alia based on spatially explicit economic models of urban transport and land rent. Dr. Creutzig obtained his PhD in Computational Neuroscience at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin after graduating in Theoretical Physics from the University of Cambridge.

Selected papers:

• F. Creutzig, P. Agoston, J. Minx, J. Canadell, R. Andrew, C. Le Quéré, G. Peters, A. Sharifi, Y. Yamagata, and S. Dhakal "Urban infrastructure choices structure climate solutions".  Nature Climate Change, in press
• F. Creutzig, P. Jochem, O. Edelenbosch, L. Mattauch, D. P. van Vuuren, D. McCollum, J. Minx (2015). Transport: A Roadblock to Climate Change Mitigation?. Science, 350(6263), 911-912
• F. Creutzig, G. Baiocchi, R. Bierkandt, P. Pichler, K. Seto (2015). Global typology of urban energy use and potentials for an urbanization mitigation wedge. PNAS 112:6283: 6288
• F. Creutzig, A. Popp, R. Plevin, G. Luderer, J. Minx, O. Edenhofer (2012). Reconciling top-down and bottom-up modeling on future bioenergy deployment. Nature Climate Change 2: 320-327