Christoph Ratay
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Room: 0505.03.566
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Fax: +49 89 289 24075
Mail: christoph.ratay@tum.de
Office hours: By appointment
Short biography
| since 12/2020 | Doctoral Scholar at the German Federal Environmental Foundation (Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt, DBU) |
| since 10/2020 | Research & Teaching Associate at the Chair of Corporate Management - Technische Universität München |
| 11/2016 – 11/2020 | (Senior) Consultant, Sustainability Services, KPMG AG |
| 2015 – 2016 | M.Sc. Nature, Society and Environmental Governance, University of Oxford |
| 05/2015 – 08/2015 | Internship, World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) Austria |
| 10/2014 – 03/2015 | Internship, adelphi research gGmbH |
| 2011 – 2014 | B.A. Politics with International Relations, University of York |
Research Interest
- Circular economy
- Sustainable consumer behavior
- Behavioral economics (esp. nudging for sustainability)
Research Projects
Based on his academic and professional experience in the field of corporate sustainability and supported by a PhD scholarship of the German Federal Environmental Foundation, Christoph Ratay’s research focuses on consumer behavior in the circular economy. He focuses on product-service-systems for food containers, electronic devices, and clothing and investigates consumer behavior primarily based on field data and field experiments. Christoph is part of CirculaTUM, an initiative that bundles the diverse circular economy expertise within TUM across all disciplines and locations.