Prof Reyer Gerlagh

From 1993 to 1999, Reyer Gerlagh worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. In 1999 he received his PhD in economics and in 2000, he became Associate Professor. In 2001, he received the Vernieuwingsimpuls, a prestigious grant of € 650,000 by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for his innovative research. For January-June 2006, he was invited by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters to come to the Centre of Advanced Studies, Oslo, to join a research group on the interaction between environmental policy and technology. Since September 2006, he holds the chair in Environmental Economics at Economics, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester, UK. Reyer Gerlagh collaborated in many international project, is member of various professional organisations, associate editor for two leading field journals, and board member for JEEM, the journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.

Research interests include the International Dimension of Environmental Policy, Climate Economics with a focus on energy transitions, Concepts of Sustainability, Natural Resources, Corruption and Economic Growth, and Endogenous Technological Change and Environmental Policy.

Reyer Gerlagh is member of the scientific board of TranSust.Scan, and EU project.

Reyer Gerlagh lectures on Natural Resource Economics (ECON30232) and Climate Change Economics (new).

Reyer Gerlagh has supervised 3 students for their PhD research and published 6 joint articles with these students in international refereed journals.

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Reyer Gerlagh is a former whiz kid who made the turn to become a social science researcher. As a secondary school student, he won the 6th Prize in the Dutch Mathematics Olympiad (1986), the 1st Prize at the Dutch Physics Olympiad (1987), a Bronze Medal at the International Mathematics Olympiad (Cuba 1987), and a Silver Medal at the International Physics Olympiad (Austria, 1988). In leisure time, apart from multi-day hikes in the mountains, he mostly likes reading popular science. He believes Richard P. Feynman’s books are among the most entertaining, (the title of one book ‘What Do You Care What Other People Think?’ seems sufficiently clear). In office time, he tries to convince students that environmental and resource economics, which is about linking real-life problems with funny math models and charts, is not scary, but great fun.

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