Prof. Dr. Sabine Fuss is an economist and head of research department at the Potsdam Institute of Climate Research Impact. She co-heads the research group “Climate Economics and Policy – MCC Berlin” (RD5) and is also working group leader of the research group “Sustainable Carbon Management” at RD5. She holds a professorship in Sustainable Resource Management and Global Change at the Geographical Institute of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Previously, Prof. Fuss worked at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria that she is still guest-affiliated with. Her expertise is in sustainable development, tropical rainforest conservation, and climate change mitigation, with a particular focus on Carbon Dioxide Removal from the atmosphere (CDR).
She has been a lead author for the Special Report on 1.5°C global warming for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of the United Nations, and was appointed to the European Academy of Sciences in 2021. Prof. Fuss received her PhD in International Economics from Maastricht University in 2008.
