Philippe Colo 

I am a postdoctoral fellow at the Oeschger Center for Climate Research (OCCR) and at the Philosophy Institute of the University of Bern and an associate researcher to the Chair of Integrative Risk Management and Economics at ETH Zürich. I hold a MSc in Economics from ENSAE and MSc in Philosophy from Université Paris I and obtained a PhD in Economics in July 2021 from the Paris School of Economics.

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My research focus on climate change. My journey began with my master’s dissertation and a sort of fascination for the IPCC’s dual mission as both synthesizer of scientific knowledge and adviser to decision-makers. Somehow, I am still trying to figure out how this could be possible. 

I explore the decision-making part of Climate Change mitigation through experimental decision theory to better understand the impact of model uncertainty on decision-making, and through game theory to analyze the dynamics of scientific communication and trust in science. 

At the OCCR I joined an interdisciplinary teams with philosophers and political scientists and also work on social tipping points, the role of values in climate economic modeling and climate ethics. 

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Here is a short (non-academic) article about some of my current research at the OCCR.