Julia Mink

Julia Mink serves as the Argelander Professor of Environmental Economics, Sustainability and Inequality (Tenure Track Assistant Professor) at the Institute for Applied Microeconomics, University of Bonn. Previously, she held a Postdoctoral Researcher position at the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE) and taught at Sciences Po.

Her educational background includes a PhD in Economics from Sciences Po. She employs quasi-experimental methods and large spatio-temporal datasets to analyze societal costs of environmental and health shocks.

Dr. Mink specializes in health and environmental economics with a focus on pollution-climate change intersections. Her research quantifies societal costs of air pollution, agricultural pesticides, and climate shocks while examining distributional inequalities. Current projects investigate healthcare costs of pollution in France, pesticide exposure effects, climate-resilient health systems in Africa, and socioeconomic impacts of Germany's 2021 Ahr Valley flood.

Her publication trends reveal consistent application of causal inference methods to study long-term effects of environmental and socioeconomic shocks. Work spans air pollution, war exposure, partnership dissolution, and retirement, emphasizing heterogeneous vulnerability across populations and nonlinear dose-response relationships.

She leads multiple research initiatives including SCCAIR, HORAPEST, CLIMRES-SSA, SOZIAhr, and ANR BeHealth, collaborating with international researchers across institutions. Her teaching portfolio includes Environmental Economics and Introduction to Econometrics at University of Bonn, with prior instruction in Public Economics and Micro/Macroeconomics at Sciences Po.