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Education

PhD in Environmental Economics, University of Copenhagen 2009 MSc in Forestry (cand.silv.) from KVL 2004. Employment October 2004 - February 2006: Research assistant at the Environmental Economics and Rural Development Division, FOI. March 2006 - July 2009: Ph.d.-student at the Environmental Economics and Rural Development Division, FOI. Project title: "Further development and validation of preferencebased economic valuation - datacollection and modelling". August 2009 - March 2013: Assistant Professor. April 2013 to present: Associate Professor and Head of Studies. Research Primary research interest in economic valuation of non-marketed goods, especially stated preference methods such as the Contingent Valuation Method and Choice Modelling Methods. Previous research comprises economic valuation of converting management practices in Danish forests to naturebased management, the economic value of nature when encroached by new motorways, and the economic value of reducing risk of flooding along the westcoast of Jutland.

Teaching

Course responsible for master course "Economic Valuation and Cost Benefit Analysis". Guest lectures on Economic Valuation in Environmental Economics courses.

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Professor Søren Bøye Olsen, born in 1976, has 15 years of experience with economic valuation of non-market goods such as nature and ecosystem services, as well as new food products. He has mainly worked with Stated Preference methods and has participated in several research projects at regional, national and international level. He has made important contributions to the scientific literature with special emphasis on explaining apparently irrational respondent behavior in Stated Preference surveys. In addition to the valuation of non-market environmental goods, his research has focused on understanding consumer behavior and preferences for foods with the aim of predicting demand for new products. Recently, he has also employed modern technology in relation to this, namely in terms of using eye trackers as a source of behavioural information, especially in relation to novel foods. He also works with cost-benefit analysis and multi-criteria analysis methods, focusing on practical applications that create better decision basis for politicians and other decision makers. He is Head of Studies for the MSc in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics at Copenhagen University, and he is course responsible for the MSc level course on "Economic Valuation Methods and Cost-Benefit Analysis". Besides that he has given a large number of guest lectures in other courses, and he has supervised more than 40 MSc thesis students and seven PhD students.

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