Dr. Nele Lienhoop
Department of Economics
Working Group Social-science Water Research
Working Group Energy
Working Group Land Use, Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity
Helmholtz Centre
for Environmental Research − UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany
phone: +49 341 6025 2693
Dr. Nele Lienhoop

Areas of Expertise & Research
- Environmental and Resource Economics
- Economic valuation: preference-based valuation methods, deliberative approaches, cost-benefit-analysis
- Biodiversity & ecosystem services, water resources management, renewable energies & landscape aesthetics
Curriculum Vitae
since 2018
Professor of Economics at the Applied University of Bochum
WS 2016/17
Visiting professor at the Technical University Berlin (Department Landscape Economics)
2005 - 2018
Research scientist at the Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ)
2003 - 2004
Postdoc at the University of Aberdeen
2001 - 2004
PhD in Environmental Economics, University of Aberdeen. Thesis: “Valuing wilderness protection in Iceland: Enhancing the validity of Contingent Valuation results”
1999 - 2000
MSc in Environmental and Resource Management at the University of Aberdeen. Thesis: “Assessing the environmental costs of hydropower generation in wilderness areas using Contingent Valuation”
1996 - 1997
BSc in Geography at the University of Iceland (Háskóli Íslands), Reykjavik. Thesis: Waste Management Strategies in Iceland and Germany: A Comparative Study (in Icelandic)
Completed Projects
The economic value of butterfly conservation: participant motivation in group-based approaches for Contingent Valuation (2006)