Admitted to the circle of the best

Sonja Zitzelsberger, research associate at the Institute of Economics will participate in the seventh Lindau Conference of Economic Sciences. This makes her one of a total of 373 young scientists coming from 60 countries. The renowned meeting was scheduled to take place at the end of August, but has been postponed by one year (August 2021) due to the pandemic. Instead, the interdisciplinary "Online Science Days 2020" will take place at the end of June/beginning of July 2020, where Nobel laureates, Lindau alumni and young scientists from the disciplines of physics, chemistry, physiology, medicine and economics will exchange ideas. Immediately preceding the Online Science Days will be a "Sciathon" - a new hackathon format specifically geared toward science. In this online competition, invitees and alumni from business and natural sciences will work together to develop solutions for a defined scientific topic. The three main topics of the online events will be the Lindau Guidelines, Communicating Climate Change, and Capitalism According to Corona.

"I was of course very happy about the invitation! Participating in the conference is a great opportunity," says Zitzelsberger. Her research focuses on the intersection of environmental and behavioral economics, but especially on human behavior in global environmental problems. For example, she deals with international agreements on climate change and biodiversity or with the analysis of laboratory experiments. In these experiments, she examines, among other things, the cooperative behavior of participants under different framework conditions in order to gain insight into the effect of institutions or rules.

The Lindau Conference of Economic Sciences takes place every three years. During the multi-stage selection process by a review panel of the Board of Trustees, special attention is paid to the applicants' academic and research achievements, motivation, commitment and extracurricular activities. Each economics faculty may nominate a maximum of three candidates. The invited scholars experience the conference once and are permanently connected afterwards through the Lindau Alumni Network.

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