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 Founding Professor at IT:U β Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria (Linz) of AI & Sustainability Policy and Senior Research Fellow to the Department of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge (UK). I hold further Visiting Senior Fellow positions at LSEβs Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Department of Economics at the University of Innsbruck. I am also a member of the Competence Center for Sustainability at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano.
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.
π News:
Starting in June 2025, I will join IT:U β Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria (Linz) as Founding Professor of AI & Sustainability Policy. Come work with me π§βπ» - 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) π¬π§, where I will continue working with with Prof. Andreas Kontoleon and his great team .
π 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)