Professor for Environmental Economics at the Technical University Cottbus
From 1986 to 1992, Frank Wätzold studied economics and special education at the Free University of Berlin, earning a degree in economics, and studied at the London School of Economics from 1989 to 1990. After earning his PhD at the Free University of Berlin in 1997, he worked as a researcher at the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research in the Department of Economics from 1997 to 2009 (as a visiting researcher in the Department of Economics since 2009). From 2009 to 2010, he served as a Professor of General Economics and Landscape Economics at the University of Greifswald. Since 2010, he has been a Professor of Economics at the University of Applied Sciences and Technology of Coburg, specializing in environmental economics.
His research focuses on analyzing environmental policy tools, including their policy development processes and institutional frameworks, economic analysis of strategies and tools for protecting biodiversity, ecological economic modeling, and analysis of policy tools for protecting ecosystem services in industrialized and developing countries.