Bio
Dr. Kerstin Hotte is a postdoctoral researcher in the Finance and Economics Programme at The Alan Turing Institute, an academic visitor at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the University of Oxford. She is also affiliated with Bielefeld University as an associate researcher at the chair for Computational Economics and Economic Theory.
She studied economics at the Universities Tübingen and Bonn in Germany and obtained her PhD in a joint degree programme from the universities Paris-1 Sorbonne-Panthéon and Bielefeld. In 2020-2022 she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Oxford Martin School before joining the Turing Institute.
Kerstin's research focuses on technological change and, more specifically, on technology transitions when incumbent technologies are replaced by emerging alternatives. She is interested in the empirical and theoretical foundations of substitution patterns in economic and technological networks. Major applications of her work are climate technologies.
She has published empirical and theoretical work using macroeconomic, agent-based simulations, patent citation and input-output networks, and other applied empirical analyses. An overview of her research can be found on her Google Scholar profile. In her current role at the Turing Institute, Kerstin is exploring a novel data set based on granular financial transaction data of businesses in the UK, that may be used to study the evolution and resilience of supply chains.
Kerstin also worked as an academic consultant for business and policy on renewable energy, on climate and digital policy, and on climate technology transfer and IP in the development context.