Tobias Hellmundt is a PhD candidate at the Chair of International Economic Policy, supervised by Prof. Dr. Kis-Katos. His research focuses on understanding the drivers and consequences of land use changes, leveraging quasi-experimental methods, spatial data, remote sensing, and machine learning.



Tobias is part of the BMZ-DEval funded Rigorous Impact Evaluation "Ecological and socio-economic effects of the forest restoration program PLAE in Madagascar". Previously, he was a doctoral researcher at the Collaborative Research Center 990, where he contributed to the project "Localized environmental and land use policies, palm oil conversion and deforestation" (C10).