Robert Lepenies
Country of residence
Germany
Discipline
Political Science & Political Philosophy
Research Interests
Behavioral Public Policy (Nudging)
Philosophy of the Social Sciences (Economics)
Poverty & Sustainability Research
Politics of Water & the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Institutional Contact
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Environmental Politics
Helmholtz Centre
for Environmental Research − UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany
phone: ++49 - 341 - 235 1406
fax: ++49 - 341 - 235 45 1733
Biography
Dr. Robert Lepenies is a research scientist at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research. Dr. Robert Lepenies is recipient of the WZB A.SK Social Sciences Post-Doctoral Award 2015 at the Social Science Center Berlin and teaches at the FU Berlin.
Robert Lepenies is working on themes in the philosophy of economics and public policy. Recent research interests include the ethics of economics, the legitimacy of using behavioral instruments in policy (“nudging”), and questions relating to the role of scientists in society.
He recently won the inaugural WIWA Young Scholars Award for Pluralism in Economics, as well as the Mulert German Fulbright Association Award for Mutual Understanding and the A.SK Postdoctoral Award. He is the project manager of Global Colleagues, a project that brings together poverty scholars in one-to-one research partnerships.
Past positions/Education:
• Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence
• Fulbright-Schuman & Global Justice Fellow, Yale University
• PhD, Hertie School of Governance & Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies
• MSc in International Political Economy, London School of Economics
• BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, University of Oxford (The Queen’s College)
