Lukas is a senior researcher and lecturer at ETH Zurich and the Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research at the University of Bern. His main research interests lie in climate policy analysis, political economy, and political psychology. In particular, Lukas is interested in the nexus of climate and food policymaking. He enjoys combining different methodological approaches, such as survey and field experiments, econometrics, discourse network analysis, machine learning, and process tracing. Based on his research, Lukas regularly consults policymakers on policy pathways for climate change mitigation and food system transformation. He is the founder of the non-profit organization NAHhaft–Institute for sustainable food strategies.

Lukas received his PhD at ETH Zurich and holds a Master of Public Policy from the Hertie School of Governance (Berlin) with a focus on Political Economy and Policy Analysis. He also studied at the University of Masstricht, the University of Seville, and the Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance (Berlin).

At BSPL, he studied the role of feedback effects in accelerating social norm, narrative, and policy change for climate change mitigation and food system transformation.

In his free time, Lukas enjoys playing with his two sons, hiking and dancing tango.