Alexandra Lux has been a research scientist at ISOE since 2000, and since April 2015 she is head of the research unit Transdisciplinary Methods and Concepts. She studied economics at the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg. In 2008 she received there her doctorate in the field of infrastructure development for a thesis dealing with public water supply and demographic shrinkage. Alexandra Lux has long-standing experiences in the fields of integrated water research and social-ecological biodiversity research, which are brought together on a conceptual and theoretical in her current work on transdisciplinary integration and knowledge transfer.
Focus of research
- Resource economics
- Social-ecological integration concepts (e.g. ecosystem services, supply systems)
- Transdisciplinarity and knowledge transfer
Memberships
- International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE)
- European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE)
- Global Alliance for Inter- and Transdisciplinarity (since 2021 ISOE’s contact person for the Alliance; 2021-2023 member of the Leadership Board)
- Associated member of DKN Future Earth (2015–17)
Projects
- Biodiversity and Climate: Socio-ecological Biodiversity Research
- DINA – Diversity of Insects in Nature protected Areas
- MORE STEP – Mobility at Risk: Sustaining the Mongolian Steppe Ecosystem
- s:ne – System Innovation for Sustainable Development
- SynVer*Z – Effectiveness of research on the sustainable transformation of cities
- Transdisciplinarity in biodiversity research
- BioKompass – Communication and participation for the societal transformation towards bioeconomy
- Cognitive integration and innovation
- Cognitive integration through artificial intelligence in transdisciplinary sustainability research
- Competence Atlas Water – Water Technologies and Water Management in Hesse
- CuveWaters – Sustainable Water Management in Namibia
- demons – Supplying the Population
- EKLIPSE – Knowledge and Learning Mechanism on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
- Eliminating micropollutants in sewage plants
- Gender Impact Assessment of the EU-Programme "Enviroment and Sustainable Development"
- Knowledge transfer of the results of basic scientific research
- NaCoSi – Sustainability controlling of the domestic water management
- netWORKS – Transformations in Network Related Infrastructure Sectors
- Privatisation and Competition in Drinking Water Supply in Germany
- Privatisation in the Water Sector
- Societal impacts of research institutions: ARL Effectiveness Study
- start – Management Strategies for Pharmaceuticals in Drinking Water
- start2 – Management Strategies for Hormonally Active Agrochemicals
- Support for the Projects for Sustainable Economies
- Sustainability Audit
- tdPrax2 – transdisciplinary concepts and methods for research and higher education
- TransImpact – Effective Transdisciplinary Research
- Water 2050 – Sustainable Innovations for Water Management