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Florian Landis is a Researcher at the Center for Energy and Environment within the School of Management and Law at Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW). His work focuses on the distributional impacts of energy and climate policy, particularly examining how carbon pricing mechanisms affect different socioeconomic groups in Switzerland. Previously, he held postdoctoral research positions at ETH Zurich (2015-2021) and ZEW Mannheim (2013-2015), and worked as a Short Term Consultant at the World Bank Group (2012).
His educational background includes a Doctor of Science (2009-2012) and Master of Science in Physics (2001-2007), both from ETH Zurich. This interdisciplinary foundation enables his unique approach to energy economics problems.
Landis specializes in computable general equilibrium modeling applied to climate policy analysis, with particular expertise in carbon pricing, decarbonization pathways, and policy design for energy transitions. His research frequently addresses the tension between policy efficiency and equity considerations, examining how different carbon tax designs impact welfare distribution across households.
His publication portfolio shows a clear evolution from computational neuroscience (early work) toward energy economics and climate policy modeling. Recent work focuses on Swiss decarbonization scenarios, with consistent themes of carbon pricing efficiency, distributional impacts, and integrated energy-economic modeling approaches across multiple publications since 2017.
Current research projects include: Renewable Fuels and Chemicals for Switzerland (Team member), Integrating very high shares of decentralized renewable energy into the Swiss energy system: Electricity market design and policy (Co-project leader), and DEcarbonisation of Cities and Regions with Renewable GAses (Team member).
