David Pfeffer
Weinbergstrasse 56/58
Room WEV J 404
CH-8092 Zurich
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David Pfeffer joined Prof. Volker Hoffmann's Group for Sustainability and Technology in August 2022 as a PhD candidate on plastics recycling and circular economy. At SusTec David will be working on the EU Horizon project “INCREACE”. The project brings together different partners and tries to find solutions to increase the uptake of recycled plastics in value-added electronic products. David is particularly interested in how economics, economic policies and regulation can foster the transition towards a more circular plastic industry.
David holds a master’s degree in Public Policy and Development (M.Sc.) from the DownloadParis School of Economics and a double bachelor’s degree in Economics (B.Sc.) and Philosophy (B.A.) from the DownloadLudwig-Maximilian-University of Munich. During his studies David focused on the design, analysis, and empirical evaluation of public policies. For his master thesis, he investigated potential cost-efficiencies in the market design of the municipal solid waste sector in Portugal.
David gathered applied research experience during his internships at the DownloadGroup for Economics of Human Behavior at the Paris School of Economics and the DownloadIfo Institute for Economic Research, where he was responsible for data preparation, analysis, and visualization.
In his leisure time David loves to do all sorts of sports, such as swimming, football, or hiking. He is also always up to discover the concert and cinema life of Zurich!
Presentations:
- August 30, 2023: "Circular Plastics: Analyzing the interdependencies between the EU policy mix and uptake of recycled plastics in the EEE sector", International Sustainability Transitions Conference, Utrecht/NL (David Pfeffer, Denise Reike, & Catharina Bening, funded by INCREACE)
- June 14, 2023: "A consistent policy mix towards a circular European plastics industry", EU-SPRI Annual Conference, University of Sussex- Science Policy Research Unit, Brighton/UK (David Pfeffer, Denise Reike, & Catharina Bening, funded by INCREACE)
- June 2, 2023, "INCREACE: Verwendung Kunststoffrezyklaten in Elektrogeräten", Circular Consumer Electronics Annual Conference, Circularity e.V., Berlin/DE (David Pfeffer, funded by INCREACE)