Konrad Götz is a sociologist and has been a research scientist at ISOE since 1995. He is working in the research unit Mobility and Urban Spaces. Konrad Götz is an expert for the empirical study of social life and mobility research. His doctoral dissertation, presented at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, was published as “Leisure Time Mobility in Everyday Life – or Deposable Time, Timeout, Quality Time – Why We Need Our Leisure Time.” Before starting at ISOE he was research assistant at the Social Science Project Group, Munich, working in the area of “Humanizing the Working World” and worked as a market researcher at the Sinus Institute in Heidelberg.
Focus of research
- Mobility research
- Empirical social research
- Life style concepts
Memberships
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Heinrich Böll Foundation Hesse
- Member of the Sustainability Dialogue of Mercedes-Benz AG
- 2003–2018: Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the VCD
- 2013–2020: Member of the Steering Committee of the Swiss National Research Program “Control Options for Final Energy Consumption” (NRP 71)
- 2018–2020: Member of the working group Sustainable Consumption: German Committee Future Earth
Projects
- CommuterLab – paths towards sustainable urban-suburban mobility based on the Frankfurt Rhein-Main region
- P-Net – Regional network for resource-efficient phosphorus recycling and management
- smyile – sustainable mobility for Waldenbuch
- Train station of the future – sustainable mobility hub and a place with quality of stay
- Vision for Biodiversity
- Agora “Verkehrswende” – Impulses for communication campaigns on Behaviour Change
- CITY:mobil – Viable Ways of Urban Mobility
- Communication Strategies for the Handling of Pharmaceuticals
- Communication to accompany the Ulm tram extension project
- COMPAGNO – A personalised companion to safeguard mobility into old age
- Consumption Styles - Sustainable Consumer Behaviour
- Customer Potential for new Season Tickets in the RMV
- Dezent Zivil – New forms of civic involvement when building decentralised energy plants
- Drugs for man and the environment?
- ecobiente - Designing Sustainable Goods more Succesfully
- EcoTopTen - Ecological Product Innovation and Sustainable Consumption
- Environmental awareness in Germany 2020
- Environmental Risks and Pharmaceuticals: The Key Role of Pharmacies
- Evaluation of the "Brennpunkt Heizung" (Focus Heating) Campaign
- Future Fleet - Integrating Electric Cars in Company Vehicle Fleets
- Hertie-Studie FrankfurtRheinMain
- Improvement of Marketing Conditions for Green Electricity
- Intelliekon – Acceptance of Electricity Consumption Feedback
- INVENT - Sustainable Management in the Tourism Sector
- KlimaAlltag – low carbon lifestyles in the zero emissions city
- Knowledge Transfer for Ecological Innovations
- Leisure Traffic in Urban Areas in Switzerland
- MobiHarz – mobility management for short-term holidaymakers in the Harz Mountains
- Mobile Baden-Württemberg – Ways of Transformation towards a Sustainable Mobility
- Mobile Living – Innovative Housing and Mobility Services
- mobile2020 – Promoting Cycling in Central and Eastern Europe
- Mobility Strategy for Hesse
- Modernization of “Blue Angel”
- NaHa – Sustainable Practices in the Workplace and in Everyday Life
- NahviS - Public Transport in the Black Forest
- NaKoDi – Sustainable consumption and social participation
- Noise Intermissions at Frankfurt Airport
- Optum – Environmental Relief through Electromobility
- Pharmas – Ecological and human health risk assessment of antibiotics and anticancer drugs found in the environment
- Power efficiency classes for households
- REZIPE – Renewables for a Zero Emission Transport
- RoboCab – Autonomous vehicles for carsharing and taxi fleets
- Scientific Back-Up for the Research Project EPSECC
- Semizentral – Infrastructure systems for cities of the future experiencing rapid growth
- share – Electromobility in car sharing
- Smartphone Instead of a Car?
- Socio-Empirical Resarch on Leisure Mobility
- Sustainable Mobility Culture
- Sustainable Modernisation of Existing Buildings
- The Blue Angel – Environmental Communication for Children and Young People
- Tracking down micropollutants
- TransRisk – Pollutants as a risk to the water cycle
- Water demand forecast 2030 (base year 2005) for Hamburg
- ZEM – Zero-Emission Mobility: Human Powered Mobility with Fun