Tobias Hellmundt
Tobias Hellmundt is a PhD candidate at the Chair of International Economic Policy, supervised by Prof. Dr. Kis-Katos. He is part of the BMZ-DEval funded Rigorous Impact Evaluation "Ecological and socio-economic effects of the forest restoration program PLAE in Madagascar".
Previously, he was a doctoral researcher at the Collaborative Research Center 990, where he contributed to the project "Localized environmental and land use policies, palm oil conversion and deforestation" (C10).
Tobias' research focuses on the intersection of development economics, environmental economics, and political economy, with a main interest in the dynamics of land-use changes. To study their drivers and consequences, Tobias leverages quasi-experimental methods, spatial data, remote sensing, and machine learning.
Education
- B.Sc. in Economics, Heidelberg University, Germany
- M.Sc. in Economics, Heidelberg University, Germany
Work in Progress
- Land-use transformation and conflict:The effects of oil palm expansion in Indonesia (with Elías Cisneros and Krisztina Kis-Katos)
- Ecological and socioeconomic effects of the forest restoration program PLAE in Madagascar (with Krisztina Kis-Katos, Zaneta Kubik and Johannes Pirker)
- Oil palm expansion and the economics of forest fragmentation (with Elías Cisneros and Krisztina Kis-Katos)
- Interdisciplinary PhD Workshop in Sustainable Development (IPWSD) at Columbia University (03/2023)
- 6th International Conference on the Political Economy of Democracy and Dictatorship (PEDD) Münster (02/2023)
- LEADS Leibniz Environment and Development Symposium (11/2022)
- EEA-ESEM Congress Milano (08/2022)
- TVSEP Conference Göttingen (05/2022)
- 2022 Meeting of the European Public Choice Society (04/2022)
- 17th Annual Workshop of the Households in Conflict Network (HiCN) (10/2021)
- Ulvön Conference on Environmental Economics (08/2021)