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Dr. Florian Kern

PhD in Science and Technology Policy Studies

Head of Research Field „Ecological Economics and Environmental Policy“ und Topic Coordinator „Environmental Policy and Governance“ and „Innovation and Technology"

11/2005 – 09/2011: Research Fellow/Officer, Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex

09/2011 – 09/2014: Lecturer, Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex

02/2013 – 05/2018: Co-Director Sussex Energy Group, University of Sussex

09/2014 – 05/2018: Senior Lecturer, Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex
Since 12/2015: Membership of the external reference group for the Nordic Flagship Programme, Nordic Energy Research
Since 02/2016: Member of the steering group Sustainability Transitions Research Network (STRN)
Since 11/2016: Member of the Scientific advisory board of Routledge Buchserie Energy Transitions
Since 01/2017: Associate Editor Research Policy

Since 05/2018: Head of the research field “Ecological Economics and Environmental Policy“
Publications of Dr. Florian Kern (PDF 0,4 MB)

Current projects of Dr. Florian Kern

Just and effective governance for accelerating wind energy (JustWind4All)
JustWind4All aims to support the acceleration of on- and offshore wind energy through just and effective governance. To this end, JustWind4All develops knowledge, practical guidelines, instruments, strategies, and trainings [...] More
Climate change and global finance at the crossroads Policy challenges, politico-economic dynamics, and sustainable transformation
Humanity is facing a millennium challenge: the transformation of state, industry, and society towards zero CO2 emissions. This goal can only be achieved if the necessary financial resources are made available. The financial [...] More
PaDiSo Participation in digitalized energy systems: Investigating social innovation processes
The centralised fossil energy system is going to be replaced by decarbonisation, decentralisation and digitalization. Actors from science and civil society have called for attention to the often neglected social dimensions of [...] More
Shaping the socio-ecological transformation together in a just way Alliances of social, welfare, environmental associations and trade unions
From both a social and an ecological perspective, the current economic and lifestyle practices in industrialized countries have serious negative impacts. They exploit the environment and pollute the climate and at the same [...] More
Hydrogen as a panacea? Importance and construction of directional certainty for key decisions on alternative transformation paths – INSIGHTS for policy making
The German government as well as a range of industry stakeholders are putting a major emphasis on the importance of green hydrogen as a pathway to decarbonization, as exemplified by the National Hydrogen Strategy of 2020. The [...] More
SustAIn – Sustainability Index for Artificial Intelligence
The expectations for applications with artificial intelligence (AI) and automated decision making are high in many societal end economic spheres. Whether it is speech or face recognition, recommendation systems, autonomous [...] More
Effects of digitalisation on society and the protection of biological diversity
The preservation of our natural resources and biological diversity is one of the generational tasks of the coming decades. Considering increasing social tensions, socio-technical change processes, social pluralization and [...] More