Current positions

Since January 2020 Head of research group “Radioactive Waste Management as a Socio-Technical Project” (EndFo)
Since October 2019 member of the council of the BMWi research network TRANSENS (Transdisciplinary Research on the Disposal of High-level Radioactive Waste in Germany) and head of the transdisciplinary work package HAFF (Ability to Act and Flexibility in a Reversible Process).
2014 to 2017 member of the council of the BMBF research network ENTRIA (Disposal Options for Radioactive Residues: Interdisciplinary Analyses and Development of Evaluation Principles) and head of the work package “Governance between expert knowledge, public protest and governmental action”.
Since 2006, member of the BMU expert group ESchT (“Expertengruppe Schweizer Tiefenlager”)
Since 2014, ITAS representative at the Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Endlagerforschung (DAEF)
2012 - 2015 German delegate at the Nuclear Development Council of the OECD-NEA, Paris

Fields of work

Transdisciplinary research on the disposal of high-level radioactive waste in Germany (TRANSENS)
Description of ITAS project in TRANSENS
Official website of TRANSENS project
Methods and measures to deal with socio-technical challenges in storage and disposal of radioactive waste (SOTEC-radio)
project description
Public participation in the siting procedure for a final repository: challenges of a cross-generational, self-reflecting and learning procedure
project description
BMBF project ENTRIA (“Disposal options for radioactive waste. Interdisciplinary analyses and development of a criteria-based preliminary evaluation of the main options”)
Description of the ITAS project in ENTRIA
Official website of the ENTRIA project (German)
Conflicts and barriers in decision-making with respect to nuclear waste management. Effects of deliberative procedures in internationally comparing perspectives
project description

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
since 2001	Member of scientific staff at ITAS
2006 - 2013	Head of the editorial staff of the journal “Technikfolgenabschätzung – Theorie und Praxis” (TATuP)

2019

Book Chapters

Hocke, P.; Brunnengräber, A.
Multi-Level Governance of Nuclear Waste Disposal. Conflicts and Contradictions in the German Decision Making System.
2019. Conflicts, Participation and Acceptability in Nuclear Waste Governance. An international comparison. Vol. 3. Ed.: A. Brunnengräber, 383–401, Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden

Journal Articles

Conference Papers

Hocke, P.; Kuppler, S.
Die Beteiligung der Öffentlichkeit bei der Suche nach einem Endlager: Ein problemorientierter Blick in die Schweiz.
2019. 15. Deutsches Atomrechtssymposium. Veranstaltet vom Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit zusammen mit Martin Burgi. Hrsg.: M. Burgi, 299–309, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft