Florian Diekert

Jun.Prof. Dr. Florian Diekert is an Assistant Professor in Environmental and Resource Economics at Heidelberg University’s Alfred Weber Institute (AWI) within the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences. His research focuses on understanding how natural environments shape human behavior and incentives, particularly in common-pool resource management. He leads the ERC Starting Grant project ‘NATCOOP’ exploring nature’s impact on economic agent preferences. Diekert holds a PhD from the University of Oslo (2011), with prior roles as PostDoc/Assistant Professor there (2011–2016).

Research Interests:
- Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
- Sustainable Development
- Game Theory applications to resource management
- Social norms and risk preferences
- Threshold effects in environmental systems

Teaching includes Master-level courses on Natural Resource Economics and Bachelor courses on Common Pool Resources and Climate Change Conflict. He actively supervises student projects requiring detailed project plans and grading guidelines. His research team includes collaborators like Tillmann Eymess and Robbert-Jan Schaap, focusing on interdisciplinary projects such as OceanFrontChange and experimental economics on tipping points.

Key Awards:

• ERC Starting Grant ‘NATCOOP’

Labs/Teams: Member of the AWI research group in Environmental and Resource Economics, collaborating with international field sites and data initiatives. His work integrates experimental economics with empirical analysis of real-world resource systems.