Christian Kimmich has been a Senior Researcher at IHS since 2020. He studied Agricultural Sciences and Economics (BSc, MSc) and holds a doctorate in resource economics from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Prior to his position in the Business Cycles, Growth and Public Finance research group, he worked at the Leibniz Institute ATB in Potsdam and as a postdoc at the Swiss Research Institute WSL in Zurich, at the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University, the University of California, Davis, the TWI Lakelab at the University of Konstanz and at IIASA and has been teaching at Masaryk University Brno.

His research focuses on the microeconomic governance and macroeconomic relevance of natural resources, critical energy and water supply infrastructures, land use and climate change adaptation. He researches and publishes in particular on institutional and behavioural economics and systemic game theory approaches to governance and corresponding macroeconomic modelling.