Dipl.-Volksw. Jürgen Kopfmüller
- Coordinator ITAS cross-cutting activity Sustainability
- Room: 417
- Phone: +49 721 608-24570
- juergen kopfmueller ∂does-not-exist.kit edu
Institut für Technikfolgenabschätzung und Systemanalyse (ITAS)
Postfach 3640
76021 Karlsruhe
Fields of work
- Development of sustainable development concepts
- Operationalization of sustainable development for various contexts (e. g. urban and rural development, energy system, resource management, organizational management)
- Sustainability assessment
- Sustainability governance
- Energy and climate policy
- Science and research policy
- Socioeconomic causes and impacts of environmental problems
Current projects and responsibilities
- Coordination Cross-cutting activity Sustainability
- Socially responsible research – design, impact analysis, quality assurance (LeNa Shape)
- Kopernikus: An Energy transition navigation system for collecting, analyzing and simulating systemic connectivity (ENavi)
- KoOpRegioN – Intercommunal cooperation options for sustainable land use in the Northern Black Forest region
- Sustainability at KIT
- Societally responsible research – design, impact, quality assurance (LeNa Shape)
- Helmholtz platform for the design of robust energy systems and their supply chains (RESUR)
Completed projects
- Risk-Habitat-Megacity
- Climate Adaptation Strategy for the metropolitan region of Santiago de Chile and regional learning network in megacities of Latin America
- Integrated water resources management (IWRM) for Java in Indonesia
- Helmholtz-Alliance ENERGY-TRANS
- Guideline Sustainability Management (LeNa)
- Urban Transition Lab 131
- Upper Rhine Cluster for Sustainability Research (URCforSR)
Professional background
| 1986 | German university degree “Diplom” after studies of economics at the Heidelberg University with a focus on economic theory and environmental economics |
| 1987 - 1988 | Member of scientific staff at Heidelberg University, Erziehungswissenschafltiches Seminar (educational science faculty) on development financing and development policy issues |
| 1989 - 1991 | Member of scientific staff at Institut für Energie- und Umweltforschung (institute for energy and environmental research, IFEU), Heidelberg, at the department Transportation & Environment |
| since 1991 | Senior scientist at ITAS |
Selected publications
Rösch, C.; Bräutigam, K.-R.; Kopfmüller, J.; Stelzer, V.; Fricke, A.
Sustainability assessment of the German energy transition. 2018. Energy, Sustainability and Society, 8 (1), Art.Nr. 12. DOI:10.1186/s13705-018-0153-4
Helming, K.; Ferretti, J.; Daedlow, K.; Podhora, A.; Kopfmüller, J.; Winkelmann, M.; Bertling, J.; Walz, R.
Forschen für nachhaltige Entwicklung: Kriterien für gesellschaftlich verantwortliche Forschungsprozesse. 2016. Gaia, 25 (3), 161–165. DOI:10.14512/gaia.25.3.6
Nayono, S.; Lehmann, A.; Kopfmüller, J.; Lehn, H.
Improving sustainability by technology assessment and systems analysis: the case of IWRM Indonesia. 2016. Applied water science, 6 (3), 279–292. DOI:10.1007/s13201-016-0427-y
Kopfmüller, J.; Lehn, H.; Nuissl, H.; Krellenberg, K.; Heinrichs, D.
Sustainable development of megacities: an integrative research approach for the case of Santiago metropolitan region. 2009. Die Erde , 140 (4), 417–48
Schultz, J.; Brand, F.; Kopfmüller, J.; Ott, K.
Building a theory of sustainable development : two salient conceptions within the German discourse. 2008. International journal of environment and sustainable development, (2008), 7 (4), 465–482. DOI:10.1504/IJESD.2008.022390
Recent publications
Exzellent forschen in gesellschaftlicher Verantwortung : Positionspapier des Projektkonsortiums LeNa Shape
2024. Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT). doi:10.5445/IR/1000170107
Ways towards Transformation : Conceptual Approaches and Challenges
2023. Sustainability, 15 (20), Article no: 14867. doi:10.3390/su152014867
Interkommunale Kooperation im Gewebeflächenmanagement
2022. Stadtregionales Flächenmanagement. Hrsg.: S. Henn, 1–23, Springer Spektrum. doi:10.1007/978-3-662-63295-6_31-1
Special Issue "Technology Assessment, Responsible Research and Innovation, Sustainability Research: Conceptual Demands and Methodological Approaches for Societal Transformations"
2022. MDPI