Roland Scholz

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Roland Werner Scholz (born April 15, 1950 in Halle (Saale) ) is a German mathematician and psychologist , and professor emeritus at ETH Zurich .

Career

Scholz studied mathematics in Marburg (with a diploma in 1976) and psychology in Mannheim , where he received his doctorate in social psychology in 1979 and habilitated in cognitive psychology in 1987 . In the 1980s he switched from basic research to environmental sciences . From 1993 to 2012, Scholz held a chair for environmental sciences (intersection of natural and social sciences) at the ETH Zurich. After his retirement from ETH Zurich in 2013 , he is a private lecturer at the University of Zurich for psychology and at the School of Public Leadership, University of Stellenbosch (South Africa). From 2013 to 2014 he was project manager at the Institute for Material Recycling and Resources Strategies (IWKS, Alzenau, Germany) of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, which is currently being established . In 2001/2002 he was King Carl XVI Gustaf Professor at Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden). Scholz was also a visiting professor or visiting scholar at the Universities of MIT ( Cambridge ), Harvard , Carnegie Mellon ( Pittsburgh ), University of Lüneburg (Germany), Graz of BOKU Vienna and the Danube University Krems (Austria), University of Gothenburg and and the University of Stellenbosch ( South Africa) and the PUCRS , Monte Alegre (Brazil).

Scholz was Senior Advisor at the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft from 2012 to 2018 , most recently at the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB (Stuttgart, Germany) and is affiliated with the University of Zurich as a private lecturer in psychology . In addition, Scholz has been Chief Senior Scientist and visiting professor at Danube University Krems at the Department for Knowledge and Communication Management since 2015 and has been dealing with the topic of Sustainable Digital Environments since 2015 . Since 2018, Scholz - together with Ortwin Renn - has been head of the digital data project as part of a transdisciplinary process (DiDaT) at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam (Germany).

Scientific work

Scholz dealt with game theory and decision theory , system analysis and environmental modeling and risk assessment, especially in questions of ecologically sustainable system transitions (urban and regional systems, organizations, decision-making processes).

He is one of the pioneers and developers of transdisciplinary research. Since 1993 he has carried out transdisciplinary projects for the sustainable transformation of urban and rural systems, economic organizations and political processes every year. He was the scientific co-leader of the Global TraPs project, the first global transdisciplinary project that deals with sustainable phosphorus management.

Scholz has worked as (co-) author or editor on more than 40 scientific books and was (co-) author of more than 400 scientific articles. In the last few years, these scientific contributions can mainly be assigned to environmental and sustainability sciences. Scholz also published works in risk and decision research, health sciences, in areas of psychology, economics and organizational sciences, as well as in mathematics didactics.

Major works

  • RW Scholz, AH Roy, FS Brand, DT Hellums, AE Ulrich (eds.): Sustainable phosphorus management: a global transdisciplinary roadmap. Springer, Berlin 2014.
  • RW Scholz: Environmental Literacy in Science and Society: From Knowledge to Decisions. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2011.
  • RW Scholz, O. Tietje: Embedded Case Study Methods: Integrating Quantitative And Qualitative Knowledge. Sage, Thousand Oaks 2002.
  • JT Klein, W. Grossenbacher-Mansuy, R. Häberli, A. Bill, RW Scholz, M. Welti (Eds.): Transdisciplinarity: Joint problem solving among science, technology, and society. An effective way for managing complexity. Birkhäuser, Basel 2001.
  • R. Biehler, RW Scholz, R. Strässer, B. Winkelmann (Eds.): Didactics of mathematics as a scientific discipline. Kluwer, Dordrecht 1994.
  • RW Scholz: Cognitive strategies in stochastic thinking. Reidel, Dordrecht 1987.
  • RW Scholz (Ed.): Decision Making under Uncertainty. Vol. 16, Elsevier, Amsterdam 1983.
  • RW Scholz: Dyadic Negotiations: A Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of Prediction Models with Special Consideration of Demand Level Prediction Models. Meisenhain am Glan, Anton Hain 1980.

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SURNAME Scholz, Roland
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scholz, Roland Werner (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)