Peter Hocke-Bergler

Dr. Peter Hocke-Bergler

  • Scientific staff until 2024
  • retired
  • Research group “Radioactive Waste Management as a Socio-Technical Project”
  • Institut für Technikfolgenabschätzung und Systemanalyse (ITAS)
    Postfach 3640
    76021 Karlsruhe

Fields of work

  • Transdisciplinary and social-science based Radwaste research
  • Technology assessment
  • Technology conflicts and large infrastructure

Professional background

1983 - 1991 Studies of political sciences, philosophy, and sociology at the university of Regensburg and at Freie Universität Berlin; promotion at the “Department of Political and Social Sciences”, Freie Universität Berlin
1991 - 1996 Member of scientific staff in the department “Öffentlichkeit und soziale Bewegungen” (public sphere and social movements) at Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung
2001 - 2024 Member of scientific staff at ITAS
2006 - 2013 Head of the editorial staff of the journal “Technikfolgenabschätzung – Theorie und Praxis” (TATuP)
2019 - 2022 Head of the research group “Radioactive Waste Management as a Socio-Technical Project”

Publications