Maximilian Auffhammer

Professor Auffhammer is the Avice M. Saint Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds appointments in Agricultural and Resource Economics and Political Economy and is a Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His research and consulting focus on environmental and energy economics, climate change impacts and adaptation, and applied econometrics, with particular expertise in the empirical measurement and valuation of climate risks and energy demand responses.

Professor Auffhammer’s work examines the economic impacts of climate change, energy and environmental policy design, and the interaction between weather, infrastructure, and economic outcomes. His research has contributed to the measurement of climate damages, the evaluation of regulatory and market-based environmental policies, and the assessment of energy demand, electricity markets, and environmental externalities. He has served on numerous scientific and policy advisory bodies, including the US Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board and expert panels convened by the National Academies related to the Social Cost of Carbon.

He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and Area Director for Energy and Climate Economics at CESifo. Professor Auffhammer has served as a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and is a Fellow of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He also served as Chair of the Berkeley Faculty in 2023.

Professor Auffhammer’s research has been published in leading academic journals, including the American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Climate Change, and the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, among others. His work has received numerous awards, including the National Academy of Sciences Cozzarelli Prize and the highest teaching awards from the University of California, Berkeley.