Dr. Natalie Trapp
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Economist at the Research Unit Sustainability and Global Change
Since April 2014, Natalie has been a Research Associate at the Research Unit Sustainability and Global Change at the University of Hamburg and a participating researcher at the Cluster of Excellence “Integrated Climate System Analysis and Prediction” (CliSAP) in the working group “Climate Change, Predictions, and Economy” (http://www.clisap.de/de/clisap/). She joined the Research Unit Sustainability and Global Change at the University of Hamburg in 2010 as a Research Associate and was a participating researcher in the EuroGEOSS project (European Approach to Global Earth Observations System of Systems: www.eurogeoss.eu/default.aspx) in the 7th Framework Programme of the EU Commission in which she contributed to the assessment of the costs and benefits of earth observation data, spatial data infrastructures and GEOSS. In 2013 she was a visiting researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, at the Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics (visit to Wolfram Schlenker).
Her research interests are widefolded including environmental and resource economics, energy or trade topics and currently focuses on the impacts of climate change, adaptation strategies and their value as well as interactions with climate change mitigation by applying interdisciplinary methods. In particular, she uses econometric and quantitative methods as well as integrated approaches using EUFASOM, a partial equilibrium model for the European forestry and agricultural sector developed by Uwe A. Schneider.
Natalie completed her PhD (summa cum laude) on “The Economic Impacts of Climate Change and Options for Adaptation” at the University of Hamburg and at the International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling in 2014. In 2009, she graduated in Economics at the University of Bayreuth with a focus on international economics, monetary economics as well as on environmental and resource economics and gained experience at the European Parliament in Brussels and at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Potsdam.
Research Interests:
Environmental and Resource Economics, Applied Econometrics, Trade, Energy, Sustainable Development