Fields of research

  • Environmental and Resource Economics, Energy Economics
  • Institutional Economics and Political Economy
  • Applied Microeconomics
  • Applied to the analysis of energy, climate and water policy  
  • since 2018
    Assistant professor for environmental and energy economics at the Faculty of Economics and Management Science at the University of Leipzig in cooperation with the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig (Germany)
  • 2017-2023
    Head of the Junior Research Group "Sustainable Deployment of Renewable Energies with Multiple Environmental Impacts - Policy Strategies to mitigate Ecological Trade-offs of the Energy Transition", University Leipzig (Germany)
  • 2009-2017
    Research Fellow, Department of Economics, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig (Germany) (2013-2017: Spokesman of the interdisciplinary Working Group Energy cross-cutting UFZ social science departments)
  • 2016
    Visiting Researcher, Institute for New Economic Thinking, University of Oxford (UK)
  • 2010
    Dr. rer. pol. (equiv. Ph.D. in Economics), Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg (Germany)
    • Grade: Summa cum laude
    • Thesis: “Using a Policy Mix to Combat Climate Change – An Economic Evaluation of Policies in the German Electricity Sector”
    • Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hansjürgens; Second Referee: Prof. Dr. Ahlert
  • 2006-2009
    Scholarship candidate of the Foundation of German Business (Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft), Department of Economics, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig (Germany)
  • 2005
    Visiting Researcher, Resources for the Future, Washington, DC (USA)
  • 2004-2005
    Research Assistant, Department of Economics, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig (Germany)
  • 1998-2004
    Diplom-Betriebswirt (equiv. MBA), University of Leipzig (Germany)
    • Grade: 1.3 (1.0 maximum)
    • Thesis: „An Economic Evaluation of the U.S. Conservation Reserve Program“
    • Erasmus student at Universidad de Deusto, San Sebastian (Spain), 10/2000 – 08/2001

Curriculum vitae
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Haefner, G., Kastner, I., Deuß, A., Meier, J.-N., Beer, K., Schmidt, K., Lehmann, P., Matthies, E. (2024). „How can energy-relevant investment decisions be boosted? The role of events as initiators and drivers of the decision process”. Energy Research & Social Science 117, Article 103710, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2024.103710

Lehmann, P., Ellerbrok, J.S., Farwig, N., Rheinschmitt, C., Voigt, C.C., Rehling, F. (2024). "Windenergienutzung im Wald: Auswirkungen auf den Artenschutz und regulatorische Lösungsansätze". Natur und Landschaft 99(11): 521-531, https://doi.org/10.19217/NuL2024-11-01

Lehmann, P., Gawel, E., Meier, J.-N., Reda, M.J., Reutter, F., Sommer, S. (2024). „Spatial distributive justice has many faces: The case of siting renewable energy infrastructures”. Energy Research & Social Science 118, Article 103769, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2024.103769

Lehmann, P., Tafarte, P. (2024). “Exclusion zones for renewable energy deployment: One man’s blessing, another man’s curse”. Resource and Energy Economics 75, Article 101419, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.reseneeco.2023.101419

Meier, J.-N., Lehmann, P., Süssmuth, B., Wedekind, S. (2024). „Wind power deployment and the impact of spatial planning policies”. Environmental and Resource Economics 87(2): 491-550, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-023-00820-3

Reutter, F., Drechsler, M., Gawel, E., Lehmann, P. (2024). "Social Costs of Setback Distances for Onshore Wind Turbines: A Model Analysis Applied to the German State of Saxony". Environmental and Resource Economics 87(2): 437-463, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-023-00777-3

Reutter, F., Lehmann, P. (2024). “Environmental trade-offs of (de)centralized renewable electricity systems”. Energy, Sustainability and Society 14, Article 37, https://doi.org/10.1186s13705-024-00462-3

Braucht Deutschland eine eigene Solarindustrie?“ (by Roth, A., Schill, W.-P.), fossilfrei-Podcast Folge 22, 8 August 2024. 

Sachsen wollen erneuerbare Energien: Doch kommt der Ausbau voran?“ (by Reinke, F.), Leipziger Volkszeitung, 24 July 2024. 

Erneuerbare Energien: Sachsen verfehlt Ausbauziele – doch Solarstrom boomt“ (by Debski, A., Reinke, F.), Leipziger Volkszeitung, 23 July 2024.

Wo Deutschlands Windräder gebaut werden – und wo nicht“ (by Bauer, J., Bickle, P., Endt, C.), Zeit Online, 16 November 2023.