Heiner Schanz conducts research from an interdisciplinary perspective on the governance of natural resources and the sustainability management of public and private organizations. His current research interests focus on the conditions and drivers of structural innovation processes for the sustainable development of complex economic systems, such as municipalities, regions, economic sectors and value chains. In addition, he has long been involved in university governance, including as former vice-rector, dean and founder of the MSc-Programms Environmental Governance and the University College Freiburg.
Niko is an assistant professor at the Chair of Environmental Governance at the University of Freiburg. He is an interdisciplinary social scientist with a background spanning sustainability studies, ecological economics, and political sciences. His work is situated in the field of solutions-oriented sustainability science, focusing governance of sustainability transformations, transdisciplinarity and human agency.
Mateo is a research associate at the Chair of Environmental Governance within the Future Forests Cluster of Excellence at the University of Freiburg. He brings a strongly interdisciplinary background in physics (Technical University of Munich) and environmental governance (University of Freiburg). His main interests lie in the analysis of complex socio-ecological-technical systems, transformation processes and futures studies. Within the Future Forests Cluster, he conducts trend analysis of social, economic and technical developments and their implications for potential forests of the future, with a particular focus on the Black Forest and Rhine Valley regions.
Elena studied Environmental Sciences and Liberal Arts and Sciences at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, as well as Political Sciences at Sciences-Po Grenoble. She is interested in the role of markets and their influence on human-environment interactions. She analyzes markets as social networks, taking into account the relationships between market actors with a focus on spatial developments. She conducts research on the governance of cascading use at the level of entrepreneurial action.
Prof. Dr. Heiko Roehl
Honorary Professor Organizational Development & Change Management
