Lars is a PhD candidate at the Berlin School of Economics and DIW Berlin. He completed his MSc at the Freie University of Berlin. During his studies he worked as a student assistant at the department for public economics and the department for energy, transport and the environment at DIW Berlin. His research interests fall into the area of applied microeconomics where he combines topics of social and climate policy such as carbon pricing and the consequences of the demographic transition on the pension system and the labor market.