Christian Kerschner

Christian has been an active member of Research & Degrowth since the very early days, was a member of the organising committee of the Degrowth Conference in Barcelona and is a member of the advisory board for the Vienna conference. He holds an undergraduate degree (Magister) in Business and Economics from the University of Vienna and a masters and PhD in Ecological Economics from the Institute for Environmental Sciences and Technology (ICTA) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). His studies were accompanied by extended exchange programs and research stays at the University of Reading, Westminster, Leeds (seven-months Marie Curie Fellowship) and Groningen. He started his professional career with two short time project engagements: one at the IRI-THESys of Humboldt University in Berlin and another at the University of Vienna and as a guest lecturer at the Vienna University of Business and Economics (WU). Since 2014 Christian is affiliated to the Department of Environmental Studies of the faculty of social sciences of Masaryk University in the Czech Republic and since 2018 he holds a full-time assistant professorship at MODUL University Vienna.