Curriculum Vitae

Prof. Dr. Carlo C. Jaeger

(*31.03.1947)

Education

• Habil. Human Ecology, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 1992
• Ph.D. Economics, J.-W. Goethe University, Frankfurt, 1979
• M.A. Sociology, University of Bern, 1972

Professional Experience

• 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

Current Research Interests

• Climatic risks and financial markets
• Integrated risk governance
• Multi-Agent modeling

Honors

• 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)
  

Professional Associations and Services

•  European Climate Forum (ECF) - President
  
• 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