Hi!
My name is Elisabeth Gsottbauer. I am an environmental economist, focusing on how policy instruments and behavioral interventions can effectively promote more sustainable behavior.
I am an Endowed Professor and Director of the Centre for Sustainability at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and a Visiting Senior Fellow at LSEโs Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change. I hold further Senior Research Fellow positions at the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG), Department of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge (UK) and the Department of Economics at the University of Innsbruck.
Beyond that, I am interested in effectively communicating research findings, including through visual formats (see a previous hosted exhibition Visualizing Klimawandel). And I deeply enjoy outdoor sports in the mountains and at sea.
๐ News:
Starting in June 2025, I will join IT:U โ Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria (Linz) as Founding Professor of AI & Sustainability Policy. Come work with me ๐งโ๐ป - currently hiring 2 Phd students for the Phd program in Computational X.
I am very happy that I was just appointed Senior Research Fellow to the Department of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge (UK) ๐ฌ๐ง, where I will continue working with with Prof. Andreas Kontoleon and his great team .
๐ New Publications:
Pricing instruments in environmental and climate policy when polluters are boundedly rational (npj Climate Action (Nature), 2025)
Nudging, Fast and Slow: Experimental Evidence from Food Choices under Time Pressure (Environmental and Resource Economics, 2025)
Work meaning and fair wages (Labour Economics, 2025)
Choice architecture promotes sustainable choices in online food-delivery apps (PNAS Nexus, 2024)