Dr. Alexandra Lux
+49 69 7076919-27
+49 69 7076919-11
lux@isoe.de
Alexandra Lux has been a research scientist at ISOE since 2000. Since April 2023, she has been a member of the Executive Board and, together with Johanna Kramm, head of the Knowledge Processes and Transformations hub. Previously, she headed 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
- GeisTreich – Geisenheim Transfer Program for Biodiverse and Multifunctional Viticulture
- SynVer*Z – Effectiveness of research on the sustainable transformation of cities
- Transdisciplinarity in biodiversity research
- transform-R – Shaping the energy and mobility transition as a socio-ecological transformation in the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main region
- BioKompass – Communication and participation for the societal transformation towards bioeconomy
- 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"
- Societal impacts of research institutions: ARL Effectiveness Study
- Cognitive integration through artificial intelligence in transdisciplinary sustainability research
- Cognitive integration and innovation
- Competence Atlas Water – Water Technologies and Water Management in Hesse
- Privatisation and Competition in Drinking Water Supply in Germany
- MORE STEP – Mobility at Risk: Sustaining the Mongolian Steppe Ecosystem
- Sustainability Audit
- NaCoSi – Sustainability controlling of the domestic water management
- netWORKS – Transformations in Network Related Infrastructure Sectors
- Privatisation in the Water Sector
- s:ne – System Innovation for Sustainable Development
- start – Management Strategies for Pharmaceuticals in Drinking Water
- start2 – Management Strategies for Hormonally Active Agrochemicals
- tdPrax2 – transdisciplinary concepts and methods for research and higher education
- Transdisciplinarity in climate change adaptation research
- TransImpact – Effective Transdisciplinary Research
- Support for the Projects for Sustainable Economies
- Water 2050 – Sustainable Innovations for Water Management
- Knowledge transfer of the results of basic scientific research