{"id":1617,"date":"2023-11-13T15:06:46","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T14:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/karlshochschule.de\/unkategorisiert\/prof-dr-robert-lepenies.html"},"modified":"2024-04-23T15:17:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T13:17:10","slug":"prof-dr-robert-lepenies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karlshochschule.de\/en\/our-university\/team-en\/professors\/prof-dr-robert-lepenies.html","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Dr. Robert Lepenies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading nachh1\">Professor of Pluralist &amp; Heterodox Economics<\/h2>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">At the university since<\/h2>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>October 2021<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Committees\/tasks<\/h2>\n\n<p>President<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Focus on teaching<\/h2>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Heterodox and Pluralist Economics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sustainability Science<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Environmental Policy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Methodology and Empirical Social Science Research<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Philosophy and Ethics of Economics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>International Political Economy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Modules<\/h2>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Pluralist Economics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sustainable Development<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Introduction to Political Science<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Introduction to Scientific Methods<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Globalization Studies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Alternative SocioEconomic Organizations<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Environmental Policy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Globalization From Below<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Behavioral Economics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research interests and fields<\/h2>\n\n<p>  Robert Lepenies is happy to supervise BA, MA and PhD theses in the following areas:<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Policy &amp; Governance<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Environmental Policy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Philosophy of Economics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Political Philosophy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sustainability Studies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Academic training and further education<\/h2>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Dr. rer. pol. in Political Science (Governance), Hertie School of Governance Berlin (Thyssen Scholarship)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MSc in International Political Economy (Distinction), London School of Economics, Great Britain<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, University of Oxford, The Queen&#8217;s College, Great Britain<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fulbright-Schuman Scholar, Global Justice Program, Yale University, USA  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellowship, Law Department, European University Institute, Italy (two years)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ASK Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Global Constitutionalism, Berlin Social Science Center (WZB)  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Postdoctoral Fellow, Practical Philosophy Department, Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin (DAAD recovery scholarship)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Visiting PhD Fellow, Social and Political Sciences Department, European University Institute, Italy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Practical experience<\/h2>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Research Scientist, Department of Environmental Politics, Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research, Leipzig<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lecturer and Guest lecturer positions:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences (Politics)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hertie School of Governance, Berlin (International Economic Thought; Governance)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Free University of Berlin (Practical Philosophy)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>London School of Economics (Visiting Teaching Certificate)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Current education and research projects<\/h2>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ethics and Expertise in Times of Crisis with Jessica Pykett (Birmingham) &amp; Holger Stra\u00dfheim (Bielefeld)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Water Quality Governance and the politics of chemical pollution with Frank H\u00fcesker (Leipzig)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Behavioral Public Policy and Nudging with Magdalena Malecka (Princeton) and others<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sustainable Development Goals: The Politics of Indicators with Kurt Jax, Ilona B\u00e4rlund (Leipzig), Eeva Furman, Jari Lyytim\u00e4ki, Eeva Primmer, Jyri Mustajoki (Helsinki), Nicolas Eckert, Raoul Mille (Paris) and others<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Citizen Science &amp; Air Pollution with Lisa Herzog (Groningen), Ibrahim Sidi Zakari (Niamey)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Several ongoing projects with Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ) Leipzig and Global Young Academy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Further information<\/h2>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Elected from 2016 &#8211; 2021 to the Global Young Academy for &#8216;Scientific Excellence and Service&#8217; as one of 200 young scholars world-wide. Elected to the Executive Committee in 2019 and 2020.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Selected to the International Science Council &#8220;The public value of science&#8221; council<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Full Member of the International Science for Poverty Eradication Committee of Interacademy Partnership, since 2017<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Recipient of the 2015 WIWA &#8220;Young Talent Award for Plural Economics&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Successful H2020 Grant NEXOGENESIS for AI-aided policies for the water-energy-food-ecosystem (WEFE) nexus (Governance Co-lead, declined)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publications (selection)<\/h2>\n\n<p><strong>Peer-reviewed journal articles (selection)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s11625-023-01293-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Science under pressure: how research is being challenged by the 2030 Agenda<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Herzog, L. and Lepenies, R., 2022. Citizen Science in Deliberative Systems: Participation, Epistemic Injustice, and Civic Empowerment. <em>Minerva<\/em>, pp.1-20.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>H\u00fcesker, F. and Lepenies, R., 2022. Why does pesticide pollution in water persist? <em>Environmental Science &amp; Policy<\/em>, <em>128<\/em>, pp.185-193.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lehmann, P., de Brito, M.M., Gawel, E., Gro\u00df, M., Haase, A., <strong>Lepenies, R<\/strong>., Otto, D., Schiller, J., Strunz, S. and Thr\u00e4n, D., 2021. Making the COVID-19 crisis a real opportunity for environmental sustainability. <em>Sustainability Science<\/em>, pp.1-9.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lehmann, P., Beck, S., de Brito, M.M., Gawel, E., Gro\u00df, M., Haase, A., <strong>Lepenies, R<\/strong>., Otto, D., Schiller, J., Strunz, S. and Thr\u00e4n, D., 2021. Environmental Sustainability Post-COVID-19: Scrutinizing Popular Hypotheses from a Social Science Perspective. <em>Sustainability<\/em>, <em>13<\/em>(16), p.8679.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Lepenies, R<\/strong>. and Zakari, I.S., 2021. Citizen Science for Transformative Air Quality Policy in Germany and Niger. Sustainability, 13(7), 3973, 1-21.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lyytim\u00e4ki, J., Salo, H., <strong>Lepenies, R<\/strong>., B\u00fcttner, L., and Mustajoki, J., 2020. Risks of producing and using indicators of sustainable development goals. Sustainable Development, 1-11.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Zingraff-Hamed, A., Schr\u00f6ter, B., Schaub, S.,<strong> Lepenies, R<\/strong>., Stein, U., H\u00fcesker, F., Meyer, C., Schleyer, C., Schmeier, S. and Pusch, M.T., 2020. Perception of Bottlenecks in the implementation of the European Water Framework Directive. Water Alternatives, 13, 458-483.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hendlin, Y.H., Arcuri, A., <strong>Lepenies, R.<\/strong>, and H\u00fcesker, F., 2020. The Politics of (Not) Assessing Glyphosate Concentrations in Aquatic Ecosystems. European Journal of Risk Regulation 11, no. 3: 539-64.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Lepenies, R<\/strong>., H\u00fcesker, F., Beck, S. and Brugnach, M., 2018. Discovering the political implications of coproduction in water governance. Water, 10 (10), 1475. 1-16.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Lepenies, R<\/strong>., Mackay, K. and Quigley, M., 2018. Three challenges for behavioral science and policy: the empirical, the normative and the political. Behavioral Public Policy, 2(2), pp.174-182.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Lepenies, R<\/strong>., and Ma\u0142ecka, M., 2015. The Institutional Consequences of Nudging &#8211; Nudges, Politics, and the Law. Review of Philosophy and Psychology 6, no. 3: 427-37.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><strong>Peer-reviewed book chapters (selection)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Hahn, H. and <strong>Lepenies, R<\/strong>., 2017. Wissenschaft als politischer Beruf: Die Sustainable Development Goals als realistische Utopie. In Globale politische Ziele, edited by Lepenies P. &amp; Sondermann E., 169\u201394. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH &amp; Co KG.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Lepenies, R.<\/strong>, and Ma\u0142ecka, M., 2019. Behavior Change: Extralegal, Apolitical, Scientistic? In Handbook of Behavioral Change and Public Policy, edited by Stra\u00dfheim, H. &amp; Beck, S., 344-60, Edward Elgar.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Malecka, M. and <strong>Lepenies, R.<\/strong>, 2018 Is the Behavioral Approach a Form of Scientific Imperialism?: An Analysis of Law and Policy. Scientific Imperialism Exploring the Boundaries of Interdisciplinarity, edited by Uskali M\u00e4ki, Adrian Walsh, Manuela Fern\u00e1ndez Pinto. Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society. pp. 254-273.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kersting, F., <strong>Lepenies, R.<\/strong> and Neef, T., 2019. Mehr als nur Werkzeuge. In Perspektiven einer pluralen \u00d6konomik (pp. 209-229). Springer VS, Wiesbaden.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Lepenies, R.<\/strong>, and Ma\u0142ecka, M., 2019 &#8220;The Ethics of Behavioral Public Policy&#8221;. In The Routledge Handbook of Ethics and Public Policy, edited by Lever, A. and Poama,A., 513-25. Routledge.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><strong>Books<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Beck, V., Hahn, H., and <strong>Lepenies, R.<\/strong>, Eds. 2020. Dimensions of Poverty: Measurement, Epistemic Injustices, Activism. Philosophy and Poverty. Springer International Publishing. 441 pages. (reviewed in Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics; Review of Income &amp; Wealth; Studies of Transition States and Societies)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Dr. Robert Lepenies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":909,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-professors","infinite-scroll-item","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karlshochschule.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karlshochschule.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karlshochschule.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karlshochschule.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karlshochschule.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.karlshochschule.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karlshochschule.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karlshochschule.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karlshochschule.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karlshochschule.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}