Prof. Dr. Silke Beck
Professorin für Wissenschaftssoziologie
Silke Beck ist seit 2022 Professorin für Wissenschaft- und Techniksoziologie an der TU München. Schwerpunkt ihrer Forschung stellen Schnittstellen zwischen Wissenschaft und Politik dar. Sie ist einer der Pionierinnen der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung zum Weltklimarat (https://www.ipcc.ch/; https://www.zeit.de/2023/13/ipcc-weltklimarat-silke-beck) sowie der evidenzbasieren Umweltpolitik (https://www.climateurope.eu/).
Nach einem Akademischen Jahr im Global Environmental Assessment Project (Harvard University) hat sie am Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung/ UFZ Leipzig (https://www.ufz.de/) über 15 Jahre lange den Aufbau von Schnittstellen zwischen Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft in der Klima- und Nachhaltigkeitspolitik wissenschaftlich begleitet und aktiv mitgestaltet ((https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IstnRqnZsQ). Sie war als Lead Author für das IPBES tätig (https://www.ipbes.net/users/silke-beck).
Auf der Basis ihrer empirischen Forschung und langjährigen Beratungstätigkeit zu Governance von Nachhaltigkeitstransformationen (https://stories.council.science/governance-social-transformations/) in den Feldern Negative Emissionen (https://www.spp-climate-engineering.de/; https://cdrterra.de/en/consortia/bionet), Biodiversität (https://voodoo-project.eu/https://voodoo-project.eu/), Landwirtschaft und Digitalisierung geht Silke Beck an der TUM der Frage nach, welche Beiträge innovative Formen von Forschung und Innovation zur Lösung von neuartigen Herausforderungen wie dem Klimawandel oder Pandemie leisten können.
In Kooperation mit Studierenden und Praxispartnern versucht sie, die Chancen und Risiken von Umwelttechnologien sowie Optionen ihrer verantwortlichen Gestaltung zu identifizieren, um ihre innovativen Potenziale für nachhaltige Transformationen vor Ort auszuschöpfen (https://stories.council.science/governance-social-transformations/).
ORCID 0000-0002-4157-0777
| Stages | Periods and Details |
| Magistra Artium (Political Science, Germanistik) | October 1985 – February 1996
University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, GE |
| Doctorate
Dr.rer.soc. | July 1996 – October 2000
Ph.D. studies: Science and Technology Studies, Sociology; Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, GE Supervisor: Prof. Dr. P. Weingart, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, GE |
| Stages of academic career
| |
| Research Fellow
| Sept. 1999 – October 2000
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge/ Ma. USA |
| Research Scientist
| August 2000 – June 2005
Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), Research Centre Karlsruhe/ GE |
| Senior Research Scientist | June 2005 – June 2015
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ Leipzig/ GE |
| Subprogram Leader/Group Leader
| June 2015 – June 2021
Acting Chair Environmental Politics, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ Leipzig/ GE |
| Associate Professor
| 2014: Guest professorship (Universitätsprofessur), Department of Science and Technology Studies, University of Vienna, A |
| 2021-2022: Acting Chair, Friedrich Schiedel-Lehrstuhl für Wissenschaftssoziologie, TUM/ GE | |
| Full Professor (W3) and Chair | Since 2022:
W3 Full Professor and Chair of Sociology of Science and Technology, TU Munich, GE |
Die Rolle von Wissen(schaft) in der internationalen Umwelt- und Nachhaltigkeitspolitik
- Global Environmental Assessment/ Science policy interfaces
- Evidence-based Public Policy / Foresight and Future Making
- New Forms of the Governance of Research
- Science and Technology Studies
- Comparative Policy Analysis
- Environmental Governance
Category A
Beck, S., & Oomen, J. (2021). Imagining the corridor of climate mitigation–What is at stake in IPCC’s politics of anticipation? Environmental Science & Policy 123, 169-178, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2021.05.011
Beck, S. et al. (2021). The governance of sociotechnical transformations to sustainability. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 49, 143-152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2021.04.010
Díaz-Reviriego, I., Turnhout, E. & Beck, S. (2019). Participation and inclusiveness in the Intergovernmental Science – Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. Nature Sustainability 2(5), 457-464 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0290-6
Beck, S. & Mahony, M. (2018). The IPCC and the new map of science and politics. WIREs Climate Change
9(5), e547. doi.org/10.1002/wcc.547
Beck, S. & Mahony, M. (2017). The IPCC and the politics of anticipation. Nature Climate Change 7(5), 311-313. https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2018.7
Lövbrand, E., Beck, S., et al. (2015). Who speaks for the future of Earth? How critical social science can extend the conversation on the Anthropocene. Global Environmental Change 32
, 211-218. doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.03.012
Geden, O. & Beck, S. (2014). Renegotiating the global climate stabilization target. Nature Climate Change
4, 747-748. doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2309
Beck, S. (2012). The challenges of building cosmopolitan climate expertise: The case of Germany. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 3 (1), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.151-496.
Beck, S. (2011). Moving beyond the linear model of expertise? IPCC and the test of adaptation. Regional Environmental Change
11(2): 297-306. doi.org/10.1007/s10113-010-0136-2
Hulme, M., Beck, S. et al. (2011). Science-policy interface: Beyond assessments. Science
333(6043), 697-698. doi.org 10.1126/science.333.6043.697
Category B
Beck, S. & Pfotenhauer, S.M. (2021). Germany. In S. Jasanoff, S. et al. (eds.). Comparative Covid response: crisis, knowledge, politics. Schmidt Futures Forum Report. Cornell University and Harvard Kennedy School.
Beck, S., & Forsyth, T. (2019). Bridging science and culture: participation and representation of transformative change in biodiversity assessments. Seeds of Change: Provocations for a New Research Agenda
, 54-58. www.biodiversity-revisited.earth
Ammann, T., Baatz, C., Bauer, N., Beck, S. et al (2019). Climate engineering and our climate targets-a long-overdue debate. DFG Broschüre des SPP 1689, https://www.spp-climate-engineering.de/index.php/climateengineering_spp1689_english259b-2.pdf?file=files/ce-projekt/media/download_PDFs/climateengineering_spp1689_english.pdf
Geden, O. & Beck, S. (2015). Klimapolitik am Scheideweg. Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, 65
(31-32), 12-18. www.bpb.de/system/files/pdf/UDNNW5.pdf
Deutsches Klima-Konsortium (DKK) (2015). Perspektiven für die Klimaforschung 2015 bis 2025: Positionspapier.
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Beck, S., et al. (2011). Synergien und Konflikte von Strategien und Maßnahmen zur Anpassung an den Klimawandel. Climate Change, 18,
www.umweltbundesamt.de/sites/default/files/medien/461/publikationen/4178.pdf
Beck, S. (2010). Vertrauen geschmolzen? Zur Glaubwürdigkeit der Klimaforschung. Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte 32, 15-21.
Mickwitz, P., Aix, F., Beck, S., et al. (2009). Climate policy integration, coherence and governance. Synthesis Report of PEER Climate Change Initiative – Project 2. http://peer- initiative.org/media/m235_PEER_Report2.pdf
Bechmann, G., Beck, S., et al. (1996). Sozialwissenschaftliche Konzepte einer interdisziplinaeren Klimawirkungsforschung. Endbericht. Wissenschaftliche Berichte FZKA 5715. doi: 10.5445/IR/270039081
Aktuelles Lehrveranstaltungsangebot:
2022 – today Editorial Board, Environmental Science and Policy
2014 – 2021 Senior Editor for the Oxford research encyclopedia of climate science
2005 – 2018 Co-Chair of the Working Group SCIENCE IN SOCIETY/ DKK/ GE
2007 – 2019 Steering committee of the DFG SPP 1689 Climate Engineering
2020 – today Lead expert/ Intergovernmental platform on biodiversity and ecosystem services (Ipbes) assessment of transformative change
2014 – 2021 Co-speaker of the Working Group Politics, Science and Technology/ (DVPW)
2020 – today Member of the Advisory Board for the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC): Feasibility of afforestation and biomass energy with carbon capture and storage (FAB- GGR)
2020 – today Member of the Advisory Board for the Norwegian research council: Understanding the international context for Norway’s low-emission economy transition (CONNECT)
2020 – today Member of the Advisory Board: FORMAS: Opening the portfolio of negative emissions technologies: A comprehensive study of social, techno-economic and ethical dimensions of biomass-based NETs in Sweden and Tanzania
2020– today Member of the Advisory Board for FORMAS: Tradeoffs between negative emissions and near-term emission reductions?
2022 W3 Full Professorship “Environmental Sociology”/ University Augsburg
2020 UFZ-Knowledge Transfer Prize
2020 Lead Expert für den Scoping Report des IPBES Assessment of Transformative Change
2016-2021 Steering committee of the Priority Programme (SPP DFG) 1689 climate engineering, GE
2007-2022 Governing Council of the Science & Democracy Network, Harvard University, USA
1999 National Science Fellowship for the Academic Year 1999/ 2000/ Harvard University, USA
1996 – 1999 Doctoral Fellowship by German Science Foundation (DFG), GE