Prior to joining C3S, Tobias worked as an Associate Professor of Quantitative Social Science at University College London. He earned an M.A. in Sociology from LMU Munich, a Dr. phil in Sociology from the University of Kaiserslautern, and was a postdoctoral research fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford.

• Environmental Sociology
• Spatial Demography
• Urban Sociology
• Causal Inference
• Computational Social Science
• Spatial Econometrics / GIS

Key publications

Rüttenauer T, Bader F, Ehler I, Best H (2025). “Breathing Unequal Air: Environmental Disadvantage and Residential Sorting of Immigrant Minorities in England and Germany.” Social Forces, 104(2), 576–595. doi:10.1093/sf/soaf032

Rüttenauer T (2024). “More Talk, No Action? The Link between Exposure to Extreme Weather Events, Climate Change Belief and Pro-Environmental Behaviour.” European Societies, 26(4), 1046-1070. doi:10.1080/14616696.2023.2277281

Rüttenauer T, Ludwig V (2023). “Fixed Effects Individual Slopes: Accounting and Testing for Heterogeneous Effects in Panel Data or Other Multilevel Models.” Sociological Methods & Research, 52(1), 43-84. doi:10.1177/0049124120926211

Mills MC, Rüttenauer T (2022). “The Effect of Mandatory COVID-19 Certificates on Vaccine Uptake: Synthetic-Control Modelling of Six Countries.” The Lancet Public Health, 7(1), e15-e22. doi:10.1016/S2468-2667(21)00273-5

Rüttenauer T (2022). “Spatial Regression Models: A Systematic Comparison of Different Model Specifications Using Monte Carlo Experiments.” Sociological Methods & Research, 51(2), 728-759. doi:10.1177/0049124119882467

Rüttenauer T (2018). “Neighbours Matter: A Nation-wide Small-area Assessment of Environmental Inequality in Germany.” Social Science Research, 70, 198-211. doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2017.11.009

See Google Scholar for a full list of publications.

I and my group are grateful for generous funding from:

• ERC Starting Grant SOCIO-CLIMP: Socio-Demographic Inequality in Climate Change Impacts

• LOEWE-Professorship for Computational Social Science, Climate Justice and Demography

For teaching materials, please see my homepage.