Manuel Jung is a research associate and doctoral candidate at the Chair of Innovation Research. In the Munich Cluster for the Future of Mobility in Metropolitan Regions (MCube), his research focuses on living labs and experiments as an innovation tool in socio-technical transformations. In autumn 2024, he was a visiting researcher at the STS Department of the University College London (UCL).
He completed the M.A. Science and Technology Studies at the Department of Science, Technology and Society at TUM. Previously, he studied Energy Engineering B.Sc. and Philosophy, Business Management and Economics B.A. at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg and the University of Würzburg. He was a student assistant in the EU Horizon 2020 project SCALINGS (Scaling up Co-creation: Avenues and Limits for Integrating Society in Science and Innovation) and a working student in the automotive industry.
- Responsible Mobility Innovation and Experimentation (ReMIX), 11.2024-current
- Transformative Mobilitätsexperimente (TrEx), 11.2021-11.2024
- Jung, M., & Wentland, A. (2024). Beyond scalable impacts: Roles of mobility experiments in local transition governance. GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 33(1), 80–86. https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.33.S1.12
- Meinherz, F., Mögele, M., Heese, J., Jung, M., Ruf, S., & Wentland, A. (2024). Wie Experimente zur verantwortungsvollen Gestaltung der kommunalen Mobilitätswende beitragen können. KommunalPraxis Bayern, 2024(11), 375–380.
- Wentland, A., & Jung, M. (2021). Der asynchrone Weg zur urbanen Mobilitätswende: Zeitlichkeit und verantwortungsvolle Intervention in öffentlichen Räumen. TATuP – Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis, 30(1), 23–28. https://doi.org/10.14512/tatup.30.1.23
- Dillig, M., Jung, M., & Karl, J. (2016). The impact of renewables on electricity prices in Germany – An estimation based on historic spot prices in the years 2011–2013. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 57, 7–15. doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2015.12.003
Policy Reports:
- Greiderer, D., Jung, M., Dasgupta, I., Omar, H. et al. (2020). euMOVE. European Mobility Venture. Technische Universität München. www.mw.tum.de/fileadmin/w00btx/ftm/05-Lehre/05-9-Internationale_Studentenprojekte_globalDrive/euMOVE_final-compressed.pdf
- Ubau, K., & Jung, M. (2016). Solar Energy on the Rooftops in Nicaragua. In T. Lieb, L. Fried, J. Klein, J. Klever, & F. Scheifele (Eds.), EU-LAC Cooperation in the 21st Century: Combining Efforts in a Globalised World (p. 68–73). Berlin: Young Initiative on Foreign Affairs and International Relations e.V. ifair.eu/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Final-Publication-EN.pdf