Dr. Christian Kimmich, MSc.
- Energy, Environment, and Sustainable Economic Structures
christian.kimmich@ihs.ac.at
Resource, energy, environmental, and ecological economics; Human behaviour, expectations and institutions; Situation-centred networks / ecology of games;
Renewable energies, water, agriculture, forestry; infrastructures, cooperatives, commons
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Christian Kimmich is head of the research group "Energy, Environment and Sustainable Economics Structures". He graduated in agricultural sciences (B.Sc.) and economics (M.Sc.) from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in 2007. Afterwards he worked at the Leibniz Institute ATB in Potsdam, conducting research on bioenergy policies and food-fuel production trade-offs for the Office of Technology Assessment at the German Parliament. Christian conducted his PhD research on electricity infrastructure governance and the water–energy–food nexus, with an empirical focus on India, and received his doctorate from HU Berlin in 2012. As a Postdoc at the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL (ETH Zürich domain), he worked on institutional and behavioral determinants of wood supply chain organization for an agent-based model of the Swiss bioeconomy.
Christian was visiting scholar at the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University Bloomington, the Center for Environmental Policy and Behavior at University of California, Davis, the TWI Lakelab of University of Konstanz, and in the Water Group at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). He teaches at Masaryk University Brno and is associated fellow of the Workshop in Institutional Analysis of Social-Ecological Systems (WINS) at HU Berlin and IIASA, Laxenburg.
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Kimmich, C., Baldwin, E., Kellner, E., Oberlack, C., & Villamayor-Tomas, S. (2023). Networks of action situations: a systematic review of empirical research. Sustainability Science, 18(1), 11-26.
Wimmer, L., Kluge, J., Zenz, H., & Kimmich, C. (2023). Predicting structural changes of the energy sector in an input–output framework. Energy, 265, 126178.
Sgouridis, S., Kimmich, C., Solé, J., Černý, M., Ehlers, M. H., & Kerschner, C. (2022). Visions before models: The ethos of energy modeling in an era of transition. Energy Research & Social Science, 88, 102497.
Bruns, B., & Kimmich, C. (2021). Archetypal games generate diverse models of power, conflict, and cooperation. Ecology and Society, 26(4), 2.
Solé, J., Samsó, R., ..., Kimmich, C., ..., & Theofilidi, M. (2020). Modelling the renewable transition: Scenarios and pathways for a decarbonized future using pymedeas, a new open-source energy systems model. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 132, 110105.
Kimmich, C., Gallagher, L., Kopainsky, B., Dubois, M., Sovann, C., Buth, C., & Bréthaut, C. (2019). Participatory Modeling Updates Expectations for Individuals and Groups, Catalyzing Behavior Change and Collective Action in Water‐Energy‐Food Nexus Governance. Earth's Future, 7(12), 1337-1352.
Kimmich, C., & Tomas, S. V. (2019). Assessing action situation networks: a configurational perspective on water and energy governance in irrigation systems. Water Economics and Policy, 5(01), 1850005.
Oberlack, C., Sietz, D., Bonanomi, E. B., ..., Kimmich, C., ..., & Villamayor-Tomas, S. (2019). Archetype analysis in sustainability research. Ecology and Society, 24(2).
Müller, M., Kimmich, C., & Rommel, J. (2018). Farmers’ adoption of irrigation technologies: experimental evidence from a coordination game with positive network externalities in India. German Economic Review, 19(2), 119-139.
Kimmich, C., & Fischbacher, U. (2016). Behavioral determinants of supply chain integration and coexistence. Journal of Forest Economics, 25, 55-77.
Kimmich, C., & Sagebiel, J. (2016). Empowering irrigation: A game-theoretic approach to electricity utilization in Indian agriculture. Utilities Policy, 43, 174-185.
Kimmich, C. (2013). Linking action situations: Coordination, conflicts, and evolution in electricity provision for irrigation in Andhra Pradesh, India. Ecological Economics, 90, 150-158.
A full list of publications is available at:
Christian studies economic preconditions for and impacts of the low-carbon transformation with a focus on renewable energies, natural resources, and related infrastructure governance and works on interdisciplinary network approaches with a focus on economic perspectives.
Teaching at Masaryk University Brno, Czechia:
- "Institutional and Resource Economics" (since Spring 2020)
- "Social Ecological Economics" (Spring 2020)
- "Governing the commons" (Autumn 2018)
- "Economics and the Environment II" (Spring 2018)