Lukas is a researcher in the Economic Policy Lab "Climate Change, Development, and Migration" at RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research. He holds an MSc in Development Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science and an MSc in Economics from Freie Universität Berlin. Lukas wrote his PhD thesis in the FutureLab "Inequality, Human Wellbeing and Development" at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and Ruhr University Bochum. He defended his thesis in October 2023. Lukas has been a Development Economics Network Berlin (DENeB) member since 2020. His research interests are the socio-economic impacts of climate change, climate adaptation strategies, and development aid evaluation.