Team

Dr. Lena Theiler

Research Scientist
Transdisciplinarity
+49 69 7076919-56 lena.theiler@isoe.de

Lena Theiler has been a research scientist at ISOE since 2017, having previously been a research assistant since 2016. She studied sociology and German philology at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Basel and received her doctorate from the University of Hamburg with a thesis on the communication of sustainability problems. 

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Upcoming Event

PCST 2025

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PCST 2025

Aberdeen, Scotland

Short presentations Lena Theiler "The Senckenberg Synthesis and Solutions Labs: A participatory communication programme" and "Let’s talk about bioeconomy: The tensions between promotion and participation"

PCST 2025

Publications

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Current Publications

Projects

  • Transdisciplinarity in biodiversity research
    Biodiversity

    Transdisciplinarity in biodiversity research

    The project is developing new approaches to comprehensively research biodiversity, ecosystem services and human interventions on ecosystems.

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  • Biodiversity and Climate: Socio-ecological Biodiversity Research
    Biodiversity

    Biodiversity and Climate: Socio-ecological Biodiversity Research

    In cooperation with the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), ISOE is investigating what reduced biodiversity means for the provision of ecosystem services to society.
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  • Platform tdAcademy for transdisciplinary research and studies
    Knowledge and Participation

    Platform tdAcademy for transdisciplinary research and studies

    The tdAcademy platform promotes transdisciplinary research by generating knowledge for its effective design, evaluating new methods and formats and offering an international fellowship program.

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  • Training scientists for transdisciplinary research
    Knowledge and Participation Transformation

    Training scientists for transdisciplinary research

    In September, 2024 ISOE was commissioned by the Austrian Science Fund FWF to offer scientists training in transdisciplinary research.

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  • TransImpact – Effective Transdisciplinary Research
    Knowledge and Participation

    TransImpact – Effective Transdisciplinary Research

    The TransImpact project analyzes how and with which methods transdisciplinary research can achieve the desired social and scientific effects.

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  • Scientific coordination of the funding initiative „An environmentally and socially compatible transformation of the German energy system”
    Sufficiency

    Scientific coordination of the funding initiative „An environmentally and socially compatible transformation of the German energy system”

    Since 2013 a total of 33 collaborative research projects are dealing with various aspects of an “Environmentally and socially compatible transformation of the German energy system”. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has included this initiative into the funding priority Social-Ecological Research (SÖF) and has assigned the Öko-Institut together with the ISOE with the coordination of the funding initiative.
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