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Benjamin Krebs is a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Ambizione Fellow at the University of Basel's Faculty of Business and Economics (WWZ). His research focuses on environmental and energy economics, examining how pollution, heat, and new technologies influence human performance, health, and policy outcomes. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT's Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research. His work bridges empirical economics with environmental science, addressing topics like air quality monitoring, climate adaptation, and environmental justice.
Benjamin has taught courses in empirical environmental economics, microeconomics, and policy analysis at the University of Lucerne, including Empirical Environmental Economics (2021–2025), Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (2021–2022), and Microeconomics I/II (2016–2020). His research has been featured in outlets such as Time Magazine, Environmental Research Letters, and Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics.
Key research themes include the cognitive impacts of temperature and air pollution, the equity implications of environmental policies, and the role of crowd-sourced data in environmental monitoring. While no scientific awards are explicitly listed, his work has attracted media attention for its policy relevance and methodological innovation.
