Curriculum Vitae

Prof. Dr. Carlo C. Jaeger

(*31.03.1947)

2008: Professor h.c., Beijing Normal University
2007 – today: Department Head, Transdisciplinary Concepts and Methods, PIK
2000-2007: Department Head, Global Change and Social Systems, PIK
2000 – today: Professor of Modeling Social Systems at Potsdam University
1994-2000: Professor of Sociology at Darmstadt University
1993-2000: Research director of the Human Ecology Division at EAWAG (Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental Science and Technology), Dübendorf, Switzerland
1992/93: Lecturer in human ecology at the Department of Environmental Sciences, ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
1981 - 92: Teaching human ecology at ETH; research on spatial and cultural impacts of new information technologies at ETH
1980: Research on energy consumption for the Association of German Scientists
1974 - 79: Research on social theory and mathematical economics at J.W.Goethe-University, Frankfurt
1971 - 74: Teaching sociology at the Institute of Sociology at Zurich University and the Department of Architecture ETH

Fellow of the Institute for Human Ecology
Outstanding Publication Award 2000-2002, Environment and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association, for the book Risk, Uncertainty, and Rational Action
(together with Ortwin Renn, Eugene A. Rosa and Thomas Webler)
2009 Gerald L. Young Book Award in Human Ecology, Society for Human Ecology, for the book Human Footprints on the Global Environment: Threats to Sustainability (together with Eugene A. Rosa, Andreas Diekmann and Thomas Dietz)

IRG-Project (Integrated Risk Governance Project) – Co-Chairman
IRGC (Integrated Risk Governance Council) – member of the Scientific and Technical Council
Center for the Integrated Study of the Human Dimensions of Global Change at Carnegie Mellon University – member of the Board

Professor for Modeling of Social Systems Universität Potsdam