Armin Haas

Armin Haas is a senior researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact research (PIK). As a trained economist and modeller, he has worked on cartel dynamics, stochastic economic systems, and agent based computational economics. His current research interests are the interaction of financial markets and climate change and innovative approaches for the management of large risks and chances.

Armin is the head of the research group “Bayesian Risk Management”, a joint initiative of PIK, the University of Potsdam, the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), and the European Climate Forum (ECF). His team develops and applies Bayesian methods for risk management. The current core activity of this group is the project “Mainstreaming climate risks and changes in the financial sector”.

Armin is co-founder of MCII, the Munich Climate Insurance Initiative. Together with two colleagues from PIK, he founded TheCompensators for compensating personal CO2 emissions via the ETS.