Former Team Members
Dr. Silke Beck
Deputy Head of the Department of Environmental Politics
Thematic Area Environment and Society
Department of Environmental Politics
Working Group Governance & Institutions
⇒ Working Group Expertise, Politics and Transformation (Chair)
Helmholtz Centre for
Environmental Research − UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany
silke.beck@ufz.de
Areas of Expertise & Research
- Global Environmental Assessment
- Evidence-based Public Policy / Foresight and Future Making
- New Forms of the Governance of Science
- Science and Technology Studies
- Comparative Policy Analysis: Imaginaries of transformation
- Environmental Governance
Curriculum Vitae
Academic Position
2016 − 2022
Deputy Head of the Department of Environmental Politics at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Germany
Education & Career
2014
Guest Professor ("Universitätsprofessur"), Department of Science and Technology Studies, University of Vienna, Austria
2005 − 2022
Senior Scientist (Tenured 2014), UFZ Leipzig, Germany
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, Harvard University, Cambridge/Ma., USA
1996 − 1999
Doctoral Fellow, Institute for Science and Technology Studies, Bielefeld University, Germany (PhD 2000)
1996
Magister Artium (Political Science; University of Heidelberg), Germany
Membership
→ Member of the Editorial Board: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science
→ Co-Speaker of the Working Group “Politik, Wissenschaft und Technik”, Deutsche Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft (DVPW)
→ Member of the Science and Democracy Network (Council)
Current Projects
VooDoo – Viral eco-evolutionary dynamics of wild and domestic pollinators under global change
Governance of Sociotechnical Transformations (GoST) (Belmont-Norface “Transformation towards Sustainability”, Principal Investigator)
Completed Projects
BASE − Bottom-up Climate Adaptation Strategies towards a Sustainable Europe
NESNET − Nested Networks: Novel Forms of Governance by Nested Networks
Synergien und Konflikte von Anpassungsstrategien und -maßnahmen (SynKon)
PEER Project: Climate Policy Integration, Coherence and Governance
Water 2050 Sustainable Water Management Solutions − Prospects for German Water Business
International Science-Policy Interfaces for Biodiversity Governance (IMoSEB-Workshop)
Das Millennium Ecosystem Assessment und seine Relevanz für Deutschland
Publications
Beck, S., Jasanoff, S., Stirling, A. & Polzin, C. (2021). The governance of sociotechnical transformations to sustainability. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 49, 143-152.
Beck, S. & Mahony, M. (2018). The politics of anticipation: the IPCC and the negative emissions technologies experience. Global Sustainability, 1.