Prof. Dr. Flurina Schneider

Scientific Director

 +49 69 7076919-0
 +49 69 7076919-11
 flurina.schneider@isoe.de

Flurina Schneider is scientific director of ISOE and professor in social ecology and transdisciplinarity at Goethe University Frankfurt. She is also spokesperson of the Research Activity “Ecosystem Services and Climate” at the Senckenberg – Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research, and of the Ecological Research Network – Ecornet. Her research focuses on sustainability transformations, land and water governance, and the role of knowledge, science policy, and transdisciplinary co-production of knowledge. She coordinated and headed various international, transdisciplinary scientific projects in the Global North and South (Switzerland, Germany, Chile, USA, Laos, Myanmar and Madagascar) aiming to generate new transformation pathways, together with societal actors. She graduated in geography, botany and law at University of Basel, and received her venia docendi by the University of Bern with a habilitation thesis entitled: “Transdisciplinary and Transformative Research for Sustainable Governance of Natural Resources: Towards Intra- and Intergenerational Justice”.

Focus of research

  • Sustainability science and social-ecological research
  • Learning and action for sustainability transformations
  • Transdisciplinary co-production of knowledge
  • Science policy for sustainability

Memberships

  • Scientific Climate Council of the Hessian State Government (Vice Chairwoman)
  • Society for Transdisciplinary and Participatory Research (GTPF) (Associate Member of the Board)
  • Global Alliance for Inter- and Transdisciplinarity (ITD Alliance)
  • Global Land Project (GLP)
  • Future Earth Pathways Initiative
  • Swiss Academic Society for Environmental Research and Ecology (SAGUF)

Projects at CDE, University of Bern

Projects