Helga Weisz

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Helga Weisz (* 1961 in Villach ) is an Austrian Industrieökologin , climate scientist and professor of industrial ecology and climate change at the Humboldt University of Berlin (HU Berlin). She heads the Future Lab "Social Metabolism & Impacts" at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK).

Life

Weisz completed her studies in microbiology at the University of Vienna in 1995 with a master's degree. She received her doctorate in cultural studies from the HU Berlin in 2002 . In 2006 she obtained her Venia Docendi ( habilitation ) in social ecology at the Alpen-Adria-Universität . At the Faculty for Interdisciplinary Research and Training in Vienna, she worked in various scientific roles from 1991 to 2009. She has made several guest stays at the University of St. Gallen and Yale University . From 2009 to 2012 she was one of the heads of the research area for climate impact and vulnerability at PIK, and from 2012 to 2018 of the research area for transdisciplinary concepts and methods.

Act

Weisz's research focuses on the socially responsible production of raw materials and energy, the conversion of raw materials into goods and services, their use and disposal in the environment as waste, emissions and heat, which together determine social metabolism .

Weisz takes an active part in the public debate about ways out of the climate crisis . When she published her study on reducing urban greenhouse gas footprints in 2017, she said: “Cities around the world must be encouraged and empowered to monitor their entire emission spectrum - local and upstream emissions. Only then can the necessary and ambitious plans of many cities to comply with the 2-degree limit be implemented. "

Publications (selection)

  • with Peter-Paul Pichler, Timm Zwickel, Abel Chavez, Tino Kretschmer, Jessica Seddon: Reducing urban greenhouse gas footprints . In: Scientific Reports , 7, 2017, p. 14659.
  • with Fridolin Krausmann, Christof Amann, Nina Eisenmenger, Karl-Heinz Erb, Klaus Hubacek, Marina Fischer-Kowalski : The physical economy of the European Union: Cross-country comparison and determinants of material consumption . In: Ecological Economics , 58 (4), pp. 676-698.
  • with Sangwon Suh, TE Graedel: Industrial Ecology: The role of manufactured capital in sustainability . In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 112 (20), 2015, pp. 6260-6264.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helga Weisz: If everything is to stay the way it is, everything has to change. In: Gaia: Ecological perspectives in the natural sciences, humanities and economics. 18 (2), June 2009, p. 106.
  2. ↑ Helga Weisz , Humboldt University Berlin , accessed on January 8, 2019.
  3. ^ Future Lab "Social Metabolism & Impacts" , Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, accessed on December 12, 2019.
  4. ↑ a b c Helga Weisz , Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, accessed on January 8, 2019.
  5. ↑ a b c CV of Helga Weisz , Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, accessed on January 8, 2019.
  6. ↑ Helga Weisz , Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, accessed on January 8, 2019.
  7. ↑ Local climate protection works globally , ntv, November 8, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Weisz, Helga
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian industrial ecologist and climate scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Villach