Dr. Dirk Scheer

Dirk Scheer

Research associate and project leader

Contact

 +49 6221 6733 986
scheer [at] dialogik-expert.de

Current projects

Completed projects (selection)

  • Bioeconomy Dialogue: Concept "Societal Dialogue Bioeconomy"
  • Good Governance Bioeconomy: Bioeconomy as a socio-technical implementation challenge: framework and requirements for "Good Governance"
  • InnoSmart: Participatory shaping of consumer-oriented innovations for smart grids
  • CO2BRIM: Multi-stage and regional-scale characterization of potential CO2 storage formations with particular focus on brine migration risks – an integrated natural and social science approach

Professional focus

  • Social-science based energy research
  • Technology acceptance research
  • Knowledge transfer and management at the science-policy interface
  • Participation and risk research
  • Future knowledge

Professional experience and qualifications

  • since 2011 research associate at DIALOGIK
  • since 2017 research associate AT Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS)
  • 2008 until 2017 research associate at Stuttgart Research Center for Interdisciplinary Risk and Innovation Studies (ZIRIUS) at University Stuttgart, Stuttgart
  • 2001 until 2008 research associate at Institute for Economic Environmental Research (IÖW) gGmbH, Berlin / Heidelberg
  • 2000 until 2001 graduate student assistant at German Center for Research on Aging, University of Heidelberg
  • Graduate Student Assistant
  • 2013 Ph.D at University of Stuttgart

Selected publications

  • Dratsdrummer, F; Konrad, W.; Scheer, D. (2020): Emscher-Umbau: Chance für nachhaltige Mobilitätsoptionen. In: Proff, H. (ed.): Neue Dimensionen der Mobilität. Technische und betriebswirtschaftliche Aspekte. Wiesbaden: Spinger Gabler, 409-418.
  • Scheer, D., Konrad, W., Wassermann, S. (2017): The good, the bad, and the ambivalent: A qualitative study of public perceptions towards energy technologies and portfolios in Germany, Energy Policy. Energy Policy 100, p. 89–100
  • Scheer, D., Konrad, W., Kissinger, A., Class, H., Noack, V., Knopf, S. (2015): Expert involvement in science development: (re-)evaluation of an early screening tool for carbon storage site characterization, in: International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control 37, p. 228–236
  • Scheer, D., Konrad, W., Renn, O., Scheel, O. (2014): Energiepolitik unter Strom: Alternativen der Stromerzeugung im Akzeptanztest, München: Oekom-Verlag.
  • Dreyer, M., Konrad, W., Scheer, D. (2015): Partizipative Modellierung: Erkenntnisse und Erfahrungen aus einer Methodengenese, in: Niederberger, M., Wassermann, S. (Hrsg.): Methoden der Experten- und Stakeholdereinbindung in der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, S. 261-285.
  • Scheer, D. (2013): Computersimulationen in politischen Entscheidungsprozessen: Zur Politikrelevanz von Simulationswissen am Beispiel der CO2-Speicherung, Springer SV, Wiesbaden.