Finn Müller-Hansen is a researcher in the group Applied Sustainability Science (APSIS) at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC). He is interested in applying methods from complex systems theory to investigate the interplay of social, economic, and ecological factors in transformations towards a sustainable economy. Currently, he works on applications of machine learning and bibliometric analysis on the scientific literature and on political discourse about energy transitions.

In his PhD at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Humboldt University of Berlin, he used network theory and agent-based modeling to investigate deforestation and land-use change in the Brazilian Amazon. Finn studied physics with a minor in philosophy at the Freie Universität Berlin and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.