"The True Costs of Environmental Risk Exposure to Silesia - CERES" project will significantly contribute to increasing the quality and internationalization of research conducted by the scientific staff and young scientists of our University, which is among the priorities of the Development Strategy of the University of Economics in Katowice for 2018-2025 and a condition for obtaining international accreditations. University staff will be able to benefit from advice, remarks and suggestions from Prof. Steffen Andersen, allowing them to improve their research skills in the field of cognition and application of the natural experiment method. In addition, the topic of the research relates to the relevant and timely theme of climate policy and its understanding in our region (Silesia).

The substantive supervision of the project is provided by dr hab. Monika Wieczorek-Kosmala, prof. UE., who is conducting this initiative with the support of Internationalization. 

The project has been co-financed by the Metropolis GZM within the framework of the "Metropolitan Science and Education Support Fund" program for the years 2019-2022 in the amount of PLN 79,468.00.

Professor Steffen Andersen is a prominent young scientist from Copenhagen Business School. He conducts scientific research in the field of the application of experimental research in economics and finance, particularly in topics related to attitudes toward various risks.  

In 2015, he was awarded an ERC-Starting Grant with a project entitled "Risky Decisions: Revealing Economic Behaviour." He also managed three grants awarded by the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation and a grant awarded by the Calsberg Foundation. He has won a number of prestigious awards for his scientific activities, including:

• Jorcks Fonds Research prize (2015r.)
• 4 Nations cup (2015 r.)
• FUHU/DSEB - "Excellence in Research" (2012 r.)
• Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation - "Sapere Aude Prize: Research Leadership" (2012 r.)
• Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation  - "Young Elite Research Prize" (2009 r.)

The rank of his scientific achievements and their recognition in the scientific community is confirmed by numerous invitations to attend scientific conferences and seminars, organized by leading scientific associations and recognized scientific centers in Europe and the US. Prof. Steffen Andersen has also held numerous international internships at universities in the United States.

Equally impressive is his publication record, with his work published exclusively in the top ranked journals in the discipline of Economics and Finance, namely Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, American Economic Review, European Economic Review, or Journal of Risk and Uncertainty.