Short biography

Lukas Cserjan has been a research associate (Pre-Doc) at the Linz Institute for Transformative Change and the Institute for Comprehensive Economic Analysis since 2024. Previously, he completed the Erasmus Mundus Master EPOG+ (Economic Policies for the Global Transition) in 2024, specializing in Macroeconomics and Socioeconomic Transformation at the Università degli Studi Roma Tre and the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, focusing on economic and ecological transition processes. Before that, he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Social Sciences with a specialization in Economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien).

Research interest

Lukas research interests span multiple areas within political economy and the socio-ecological transformation. He focuses on the mobility transition and the heat transition, as well as the ecologically unequal exchange theory, analyzing how global economic relations contribute to environmental and social inequalities. Additionally, he explores wealth inequality and the role of super-high-net-worth individuals in economic and societal structures, focusing on how concentrated wealth and complex ownership networks shape economic systems

• Political economy of the Socio Ecological Transfomration, Mobility Transformation, Heating Transition, Wealth Concentration and Inequality, Input Output Modeling, Political Economy of Global Exchange Relationships and Sustainability