Prof. Dr. Harald Heinrichs
Professor of Sustainability Politics
Member of the Institute of Sustainaiblity Governance (INSUGO)
Member of the Institute for Environmental and Sustainability Communication (INFU)
[Translate to Englisch:] Adresse Heinrichs
Scharnhorststr. 1, C11.226
21335 Lüneburg
Fon +49.4131.677-2931
Fax +49.4131.677-2819
harald.heinrichs@uni.leuphana.de
Professor for Sustainability Policy, born 1970
Personal information
Professor of Sustainability Politics at the Institute for Environmental and Sustainability Communication and the Institut of Sustainability Goverannce at the Leuphana University Lüneburg since October 2009
Dean of Environment and Sustainability Studies since October 2010
Environment and Sustainability Manager at the audit, tax and advisory services company KPMG from July 2008 to September 2009
Assistant Professor for Sustainable Development and Participation at the Institute for Environmental and Sustainability Communication at the University of Lüneburg from October 2004 to June 2008.
Postdoctoral work at the Jülich Research Center in the Program Group “Humans, Environment and Technology”; including work on a project sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research on “Climate change and preventative risk and coastal protection management on the German North Sea Coast: Climate change and the public – Interpretations of global climate change by the public” from June 2001 to September 2004
Auxiliary lecturer for Sociology of Science, Technology and the Environment in the Bachelor’s programme in Social Sciences at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf, Germany from 2002 to 2004
Visiting researcher at the Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Boston, USA: “Scientific advisory systems for environmental policy in the US” under the supervision of Prof. Dr. S. Krimsky from September 1999 to June 2000
Doctoral dissertation in Sociology at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, in cooperation with the Jülich Research Center on “Policy advice in knowledge societies: An analysis of environmental policy advisory systems” under the supervision of Prof. Dr. O. Renn and Prof. Dr. H.P. Peters from June 1998 to May 2001
Master’s degree in Sociology, Political Science and Economic Policy at the University of Münster with a thesis on the topic of “Genetic engineering in discourse. An empirical analysis of the expert-layperson relationship in the current public debate about genetic engineering” under the supervision of Prof. Dr. R. Tschiedel from October 1992 to April 1998
Fields of expertise
Environmental and sustainability policy
Sociology of Sustainable Development