Dipl.-Phys. Torsten Fleischer
- Deputy head of institute
- Research group “Mobility Futures”
- Room: 318
- Phone: +49 721 608-24571
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Institut für Technikfolgenabschätzung und Systemanalyse (ITAS)
Postfach 3640
76021 Karlsruhe
Current positions
- Head of the research group “Mobility Futures”
- Focus topic “Mobility in urban contexts – Needs-based Infrastructures in Cities of the Future” as part of the “Profilregion Mobilitätsysteme Karlsruhe” research cluster
Fields of work
- Technology Assessment on Informatization and Automation of Mobility and Transportation
- Technology Assessment in the fields Energy and New Materials (Focus Nanomaterials)
- Interactions between technological and societal changes
- Governance of innovation processes
Recent projects and responsibilities
- Project coordination “Feasibility conditions and implications of Automated Driving” as part of Tech Center a-drive
- Work package leader “Technology Assessment as part of the Development Process” within Project PAKoS: „Personalisierte, adaptive kooperative Systeme für automatisierte Fahrzeuge“ (Personalized, adaptive and cooperative Systems for Automated Vehicles)
- WP6 “Behaviour in the context of changes in values and lifestyles” within Kopernikus-Project ENavi
- Project coordinator “M4ShaleGas: Measuring, monitoring, mitigating, managing the environmental impact of shale gas”
- RITA – Responsible Innovation und Technology Assessment
- KonsensOP – Context-sensitive assistance in an attentive surgical operating theatre
- Technology Options in Urban Transport: Changing paradigms and promising innovation strategies
Completed projects (after 2000)
- TRANSFORuM – Transforming European Transport through an Active Actors Forum
- FUTRE – FUture prospects on TRansport evolution and innovation challenges for the competitiveness of Europe
- myCopter - Enabling Technologies for Personal Aerial Vehicles
- Global Ethics in Science and Technology (GEST)
- Bürgerdialog Zukunftstechnologien (Citizen’s Dialogue on Future Technologies)
- Eco-Efficient Transport Futures for Europe
- Contribution to the risk governance of particulate nanomaterials by evidence mapping of their potential health risks
- Technology Options in Urban Transport: Changing paradigms and promising innovation strategies
- AUTOSUPERCAP - Development of High Energy/High Power Density Supercapacitors for Automotive Applications
- Electrochemical Storage in a systemic perspective – Reliability and Integration
- Helmholtz-Alliance ENERGY-TRANS
- Optimal policies for transport in combination (OPTIC)
- ITA monitoring – identification of new topics for the innovation and technology analysis of the BMBF
- NanoSafety – Risk Governance of Manufactured Nanoparticless
- Study about the state of research on the specific use and distribution patterns of sustainable technologies
- World Wide Views on Global Warming (WWViews) – a World Wide Project on Citizens’ Participation in Climate Policy
- Knowledge and Technology Transfer in Materials Research – Characteristics and Conditions of Successful Product Innovation (InnoMat)
- Converging Technologies (CONTECS)
- Alternative Technology Options for Road and Air Transport
- Nanotechnology and Health – Technological Options, Risk Assessment and Precautionary Strategies
- Innovation Strategies for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) to Reach a “Sustainable Development” in the Transport Sector Comparative Analysis of International Experiences and Interpretation for German Implementation Conditions
Professional background
1990 | German university degree „Diplom“ after University studies of physics in Berlin |
1991 - 1995 | Scientific staff member in the Department of Applied Systems Analysis (AFAS) that later became the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) of Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (FZK) |
1995 - 2000 | Scientific staff member at the Office of Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag (TAB) Bonn / Berlin |
since 2000 | Scientific staff member at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) |
Recent publications
2021
Journal Articles
Puhe, M.; Schippl, J.; Fleischer, T.; Vortisch, P. (2021). Social Network Approach to Analyze Stability and Variability of Travel Decisions. Transportation research record. doi:10.1177/03611981211002200
2020
Reports/Preprints
Brändle, C.; Woll, S.; Fleischer, T.; Decker, M. (2020). Bürgerdialog „Autonome Technologien im europäischen Kontext“: Schlussbericht. KIT Scientific Publishing. doi:10.5445/IR/1000105585
Sebastian Hallensleben; Fetic, L.; Fleischer, T.; Grünke; Hagendorff, T.; Hauer, M.; Hauschke, A.; Heesen, J.; Herrmann, M.; Hillerbrand, R.; Hubig, C.; Kaminski, A.; Krafft, T.; Loh, W.; Otto, P.; Puntschuh, M.; Hustedt, C. (2020). From Principles to Practice : An interdisciplinary framework to operationalise AI ethics. Bertelsmann Stiftung.
2019
Journal Articles
Fleischer, T.; Meyer-Soylu, S.; Schippl, J.; Decker, M. (2019). Personal aerial transportation systems (PATS) – A potential solution for the urban mobility challenges?. Futures, 109, 50–62. doi:10.1016/j.futures.2019.03.006
Reports/Preprints
Schmidt, S. C. E.; Heil, R.; Fleischer, T.; Woll, A. (2019). Positionspapier zum eSport in Deutschland: Diskussionsstand, Herausforderungen und Forschungsdesiderate. Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT). doi:10.5445/IR/1000098638