RCE - Regional Center for Expertise for Sustainable Development

The RCE moved to the Center for Sustainability Transformation and Responsibility (STaR) in Januar

- Christian Rammel
- Valentina Aversano-Dearborn
- Hannah Frost
- Danijela Grubnic
- Laura Hohoff
- Renate Krenn
- Aishwarya Krishnan
- Gordana Maric
- Daniel Schmelz
 

AVERSANO-DEARBORN Valentina, MA

Rese­arch Associate

Research Interest

• Transdisciplinary Research

• Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI)

• Sustainable production & consumption

• Education for Sustainable Development

• Governance and participation

• Values in economics

BÄR Moritz, BSc.

Research Interest

• Climate Change Economics

• Macroeconomics of Sustainability

• Climate Finance

• Political Economy

• Development Economics

BETTIN Steffen, BSc.

Research-Assistant

Research Interest

• Evolutionary & Institutional Economics

• Political Economy

• Pluralism in Economics

• Socio-Ecological Transformation

• Agent-based Computational Economics

• Global Public Goods

BIBERHOFER Petra, Ph.D.

Research Associate

Research Interests

• (Higher) education for sustainable development/transformative education

• Transdisciplinary research       

• Science-society interfaces        

• Competence-based teaching and learning processes and methods 

• Sustainability-driven entrepreneurship

DOBERNIG Karin, Ph.D.

Research Associate

Research Interest

• Sustainable Consumption

• Pro-Environmental (Consumer) Behavior

• Theories of Social Practice

• Alternative Agro-Food Networks

DIETER Armin, Ph.D.

Research and Teaching Associate

Research Interest

• Resource Strategies

• Raw Materials Policy

• Critical Raw Materials

• Sustainable Raw Materials Supply

• Sustainable Energy Supply

DISSLBACHER Franziska

PhD-­Stu­dent

ERWAND, Anne MA

Project Manager

GEROLD Stefanie MSc

PhD-Student

Research Interest

• Ecological Economics

• Socio-ecological transformation

• Working time reduction

• Distribution and inequality

GLÖTZL Florentin

Research Associate

Research Interest

• Macroeconomics

• Economic Policy

• Distribution and Inequality

• Financialization and Debt Dynamics

• Political Economy

GÖZET Burcu

Research Associate

Research Interest

• Sustainable consumption

• Environmental policies

• Environmental inequality

• Circular Economy

HAVELKA Andreas, Dr.

Project Manager

Research Interest

• Transport

• Sustainable regional development

• New teaching and learning methods

• Project management

JAKITS Reinhard, Mag.

Research Asso­ciate

Research Interest

• Smart Cities

• Urbanism

• Sustainable energy production

• Sustainable urban development

• Poverty reduction strategies and energy poverty issues

KÖNIGSWIESER Csilla Sophia, Mag. BSc.

Research Associate

Projects

• „Circular Vienna“ (full proposal)

KOPEL Dorothy, Dr.

Program Coordinator of the MSc program “Socio-Ecological Economics and Policy”

Responsibilities

• Support to the program director in all organizational matters

• Interface for faculty, current and prospective students of the program

• Program development

• Course planning

• Student selection

• Academic controlling

• Marketing and quality management

• Maintenance of the program website and social media pages

HOHOFF Laura Carlotta, B.Sc.

Project and Communication Manager

Current Projects

• CERIecon

KRISCHEK Caroline, BSc. MA

Project Manager

Responsibilities

• Institutional platform (Sharepoint)

LANDON Tess Margaret

Project Manager

Responsibilities

•     SDGs Lab (Erasmus + Knowledge Alliance)

OMANN Ines, Dr.

Senior Researcher

Research Interest

• Quality of life research

• Scenario development

• Action and transdisciplinary research methods in the area of sustainability

• Moderator and facilitator in public participation processes and workshops around the above mentioned themes, based on the "art of hosting"

SCHANES Karin, Dipl.-Ing., Ph.D.

Research Associate

Research Interest

• Sustainable Consumption

• Climate Policy

• Food Consumption

• Food Waste

• Social practice theory

SCHARBERT Annika, Ph.D.

Research Associate

Research Interest

• Evolutionary Economics

• Political Economy

• Political Science – International Relations

• Ecological Economics(Sustainability) Entrepeneurship

• Ethnographic Studies

• Economic Sociology

SCHMELZER Stefan, Mag.

Research Associate, PhD-Student

Research Interest

• Macroeconomic modelling

• Monetary economics

• Financialization

• Economic growth

• Economic sustainability

• Interactions btw. finance and real economy

• Environmental economics

SCHOLZ-WÄCKERLE Manuel, Dr.

Research Associate, Post-Doc

Present position:

Senior Lecturer at the WU Department Socioeconomics

Research Interest

• evolutionary political economy

• institutional economics

• computational socioeconomic simulation

• agent-based modeling (micro-meso-macro)

• applied game theory

• socio-ecological transformation

• endogeneous money

• power, democracy and governmentality

Projects

WWWforEurope

SEDLAK Josef David, MA

Project Manager

Research Interest

• Art of Hosting

• Transformative learning

• Global village Artisanry and new work

• Sustinable education and development

• Purpose @ work

Project

CASE

Soder Michael, PhD., MSc.

Research Associate, PostDoc.

Research Interest

• Macroeconomics

• Ecological Economics

• Industrial Relations, Labor Markets and Working Time

• Growth, Economic Development and Well-Being

• Political Economy

THEINE, Hendrik, BSc.

Research-Assistant

Research Interest

• Wealth, income and redistribution

• Socio-ecological transformation

• Pluralism in Economics

• Socially sustainable economic Degrowth

Teresa WEISS

PhD-­Stu­dent

ZEPHAROVIC Elena, MSc.

Projektmanager of the "Sustainability Challenge"

Research Interest

• Education for Sustainable Development

• Service-Learning

• Transformative Learning