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Research for the Environment

Dr. Silke Beck

Link internLink internDivision of Social Sciences
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Link internLink internWorking Group Governance & Institutions
Working Group Climate

Helmholtz Centre
for Environmental Research - UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany

phone: ++49 - 341 - 235 1733
fax: ++49 - 341 - 235 1836

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Dr. Silke Beck

Areas of Expertise & Research

  • Global Environmental Assessment
  • Science and Public Policy
  • Science and Technology Studies
  • Comparative Policy Analysis
  • Environmental Governance



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Silke Beck (2009). Das Klimaexperiment und der IPCC.

Professional Experience

since 06/2005

Research Scientist, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Department of Economy

2004/2005

Research Scientist, Institute for Science and Technology Studies, Bielefeld University

2003

Guest Researcher, New Academy of Nature and Culture, Loyola University Chicago, Ill., USA

2000 - 2003

Research Scientist, Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe

1999/2000

Research Fellow, Global Environmental Assessment Project, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge/ Ma., USA, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF)

1996 - 1999

Doctoral Fellow, Institute for Science and Technology Studies, Bielefeld University, funded by German Research Foundation (DFG)

1994 - 1996

Scientific Assistant, Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe

1989 - 1993

Scientific Assistant/ Lecturer at the Institute of Political Science, University of Heidelberg

Education

10/2000

Dr. rer. soc. (~ Ph.D.) Sociology, Bielefeld University

1996

Magistra Artium Political Science/ Germanistik, University of Heidelberg

Reviewer for:

  • GAIA
  • Environmental Pollution
  • Global Environmental Change
  • Forest Policy and Economics
  • Nature & Culture
  • Science, Technology and Human Values