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Curriculum Vitae (this version from 03/2018)

P E R S O N A L D E TA I L S
Name Björn Vollan (one child)

Nationalities German and Norwegian

Research interests Development Economics, Environmental Economics, Behavioral and

Experimental Economics.

E D U C AT I O N A N D E M P L OY M E N T
10/2015 – ongoing Robert Bosch Junior Professor for Sustainable Use of Natural Resources at the Philipps-
Universität Marburg (tenure track).

 Teaching: Lecture and Exercise “Environmental Economics” (Bsc) and “Behavioral Development
Economics” (Msc). Seminars with changing topics every semester (Msc).

09/2012 – 10/2015 Assistant Professor at the University of Innsbruck, Department of Public Finance,
Research Center Environmental Economics and Regional Development, Research Area "Alpine Space - Man and
Environment".

 Habilitation “Endogenous preferences and policies: Insights from lab-in-the-field economic experiments
carried out in Africa and Asia” (Review reports of Kosfeld, Szech, Villeval, Weimann upon request)

 Teaching: Lecture and Proseminar “Environmental Economics” (Bsc) and "Valuation of Ecosystem
Services" (Bsc) (joint with Prof. Weck-Hannemann). Proseminar "Public Economics".

10/2010 – 08/2012 Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Research in the
working group “Institutional and Behavioural Economics” (Prof. A. Schlüter)

 Teaching: Lecture “Ecological Economics” for Master students at University Bremen; Seminar “Impact
Evaluation in Developing Countries” for Master Students at University Marburg and Lecture
“Experimental economics in the field” for Master students at Beijing Normal University.

05/2008 – 09/2010 Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Mannheim, Department of Economics,

Chair of applied Microeconometrics (Prof. M. Frölich).

 Teaching: Lecture “Experimental Methods and its Application to Development Economics” (Bsc),
Tutoring Statistics II (Bsc), Seminar “Labour markets in developing countries” (Bsc) (joint with Prof.
Frölich).

02/2004 – 03/2008 Doctoral Student at the Philipps-Universität Marburg, Faculty of Business

Administration and Economics, Institute for Co-operation in Developing Countries (Prof. M. Kirk) for the
research project BIOTA Southern Africa "Socio-economic aspects of changes in biodiversity in southern Africa".
Subproject Administrative Co-ordinator (June 2005- December 2006).

 Dissertation: "Co-operation for Common Pool Resources: An Experimental Perspective" (2009, summa
cum laude)

10/1998 - 10/2003 Diploma in Economics (equivalent to Master's Degree) at the Albert-Ludwigs

Universität Freiburg, Germany.

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P RO J E C T S F U N D E D
The shadow of the future and the shadow of the past: Studying the impact of climate change. (2015-2020) Robert
Bosch Junior Professorship AMOUNT: 1.000.000 €. PI: Björn Vollan.

Leadership, Nepotism and Procedural Fairness. (2014-2015) Award for Young Scientists of the University
Innsbruck. AMOUNT: 18.835€. PI: Björn Vollan.

Encouraging shop owners in Indonesia to sell eco-friendly bags. (2015) ASEA Uninet. AMOUNT: 2000€. PI:
Björn Vollan.

Microinsurance in the Philippines. (2009-2011). Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).
AMOUNT: ca. 50.000€. PI: Markus Frölich, Björn Vollan.

P R E S E N TAT I O N S
INVITED SEMINARS: Beijing (2018) • Nottingham (2018) • Norwich (2018) • Passau (2018) • Windhoek (2017) •
Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane (2017) • Göttingen (2017) • Norwegian University of Life
Science in Ås (2017) • Osnabrück (2017) • Stockholm Resilience Centre (2015) • Geneva (2015) • University of
Mannheim (SFB 884 "Political Economy of Reforms") (2015) • Marburg (2015, 2011) • Frankfurt School of
Finance (2015) • Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) in Cape Town (2006).

INVITED WORKSHOPS: Coupled Systems workshop in Maine (August 12-17, 2018) • Workshop on ‘Endogenous
institutions in social dilemmas’, Copenhagen (June 27-28, 2018) • Workshop ‘Troubled waters’ in Hamburg (July
13-15, 2018) • Workshop ‘Environmental and Natural Resource Conservation’, Montpellier (September 6-7, 2017)
• International Closing Conference of the SFB 700 ‘Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood – New Modes of
Governance?’ at Freie Universität Berlin (June 22-24, 2017) • Key Note presentation at Future Earth Workshop on
‘Extreme Events: from climate to society’, Berlin, (February 14-16, 2016) • Workshop on Field Experiments in the
Global South, Cologne (December 19-20, 2016) • Ernst Strüngmann Forum on ‘Evolutionary and Economic
Strategies for Benefitting from Other Agents' Investments’, Frankfurt, (November 1-6, 2015) • Workshop on the
Workshop (WOW5) in the working group ‘Experiments on Destruction of Natural Resources’ (June 18–21, 2014)
and ‘Field Experiments on Development and the Environment’ during the (WOW4) at Indiana University (June 2-
7, 2009) • TAMNEAC (Training and Mobility Network for the Economic Analysis of Conflict) workshops at the
Université Libre de Bruxelles, (September 8-9, 2014) and at the Peace Research Center, Oslo, (October 7-9, 2013) •
Liberty Fund colloquium ‘Artificial Intelligence, Technology, and the Future of Liberty’, Stockholm (August 31 -
September 3 2017) ‘Liberty and Responsibility in Polycentric Circles: The Ostrom Legacy’, Frankfurt, (November
7-10, 2013) and ‘Liberty, Federalism and Community: Diversity and the Common Polity’, Frankfurt, (June 24-26,
2010) • Symposium on Economic Experiments in Developing Countries (SEEDEC), Berkeley, (November 29-30,
2012) • Author’s colloquium with Elinor Ostrom, Bielefeld, (November 16-17, 2011) • Beijing Normal University
by Biliang Hu, (November 20 - December 10, 2011) • Duke University by Xavier Basurto, (September 19-24,
2011) • Workshop ‘Experiments and other methods in Environmental Economics’ Innsbruck (June 22-23, 2011) •
Symposium on the Evolution of Cooperation in Bremen (2009) • Arizona State University by Marco Janssen and
Elinor Ostrom, (January 12-13, 2009) • Invited for panel ‘Can experimental economics deal with the social
embedding of economic behaviour and cognition?’ at the Experimental Economics Days in Dijon (May 15-16,
2008) • IZA Workshop: Behavioral Labor Economics (October 10-11, 2008).

CONFERENCES: Economic Science Association World Meeting (2018) • European Public Choice Society (2016) •
Human Migration and the Environment: Futures, Politics, Invention (2015) • European Economic Association
(2013) • World Congress of Environment and Resource Economics (2014) • 3rd International Conference:
Environment and natural resources management in developing and transition economies (2014) • International
Conference of Ecological Economics (2014) and (2006) • International Conference of the Courant Research
Center and the Ibero America Institute (2014) • European Conference of Ecological Economics (2007) •
Conference of the International Association for the study of the Commons (2006, 2008 and 2011, 2017) •
Tropentag (2015, 2005) • AERC Conference on Agriculture for Development in Sub Saharan Africa in Mombasa
(2009) • International Conference on Cooperative Studies in Cologne (2008) (best paper award).

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ADMITTANCE TO SUMMER SCHOOLS: International Symposium “Foundations of Human Social Behavior” in

Zürich (2008) • Interdisciplinary PhD School with the Ostroms “The Challenge of Self-Governance in Complex,
Globalizing Economies” in Freiburg, Germany (2007) • Thirteenth Annual Visiting Graduate Student Workshop
in Experimental Economics “Constructivist and Ecological Rationality in Personal and Impersonal Exchange” at
George Mason University. Washington, US (2007) (DFG Travel grant) • Summer School on “Social Capital,
Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Economic Development” in Trento, Italy (2007) • Workshop on
Evolutionary Economics, in Buchenbach, Germany (2005).

OTHER PRESENTATIONS: Colloquium „Biodiversität und Naturschutz” Biology Department Marburg (2018) •
Teacher network “Economic Education” in Homberg (2017) • Iranian Summer School (2017) • Eeecon Seminar in
Innsbruck (2015, 2013) Assistentenkonferenz "Politische Ökonomie" in Freiburg (2014) and Zürich (2013) • GIZ
Thementag (2009) • Stakeholder workshops within the BMBF project BIOTA (2004, 2007, 2008).

S T U D I E S A B ROA D A N D F I E L D E X P E R I E N C E
Studied one semester at the University of Bergen (N) and the University of Basel (CH).

Household and community survey in South Africa and Namibia (10/2004 - 02/2005) • Experimental Economics
in South Africa and Namibia (02/2006 - 05/2006; 02/2008 – 03/2008; 08/2007 – 10/2007) • Experimental
Economics in Cambodia (07/2006) • Household survey and experimental economics in the Philippines in
cooperation with GIZ (11/2009; 07/2010 - 08/2010) • Survey and Field Experiments in Burkina Faso (01/2011 –
02/2011) • Experimental Economics in Ethiopia (08/2011) • Lecture and Experimental Economics in China
(12/2011) • Experimental Economics in the Philippines (8/2012) • Experimental Economics in Mexico (8/2013) •
Field Experiment in Bali (9/2013) • Experimental Economics in Namibia (7/2014) • Experimental Economics in
Ethiopia (8/2014) • Mexico (11/2016) • Fieldwork in the Solomon Islands (3/2017) • China (5/2018)

REVIEWER
Science • Science Advances • Nature Sustainability • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) •
Review of Economic Studies • Economic Journal • American Economic Journal • Management Science • Journal
of Public Economics • Games and Economic Behavior • Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
• Environment and Resource Economics • Ecological Economics • World Development • Ecology & Society, •
American Journal of Agricultural Economics • Agricultural Systems • Journal of Economic Behavior and
Organization• Journal of Peace Research • Oxford Economic Papers • Rationality and Society • Journal of Socio-
Economics • Journal of Public Economic Theory • Economics E-Journal • The B.E. Journal of Economic
Analysis and Policy • Frontiers in Psychology • Sustainability • Natural Resources Forum – A United Nations
Sustainable Development Journal • Journal of Environmental Planning and Management • Society & Natural
Resources • Sustainability Science • Homo Oeconomicus. • International Journal of the Commons.

DfG • French National Research Agency (ANR) • Bosch Foundation “Our common future”• EU-COST
Association. Member of the Programme Committee, 6th World Congress of Environmental and Resource
Economists (WCERE 2018).

PhD Opponent in Göteborg (Yashoda), Ås (Handberg), Beijer Institute Stockholm (Schill) and external supervisor
in Innsbruck (Gapp) and at Duke (Quintana).