Habilitation Thesis
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Energy-Efficient Embedded Systems: Pioneering Intelligence at the Edge for Sustainable Wearable Devices
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Unlocking the connection between sleep oscillations and health through non-invasive brain stimulation
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Structure, dynamics and predictability in techno-socio-economic systems
(2023)This habilitation thesis is focused on the analysis of modern techno-socio-economic systems, that are composed of a large number of non-linear interacting agents with adaptive behavior. Part I is focused on the stochastic spreading dynamics of SIR, SEIR type on network structure, and the interplay i.e. mapping between structure and dynamics. Chapter 1 provides details of a computational and analytical spreading framework, that can ...Habilitation Thesis -
From individual migrations to biomass flows
(2023)Animal migrations span the globe, involving trillions of individuals from a wide range of taxa that transport nutrients, energy, and other organisms throughout their journeys. Through a variety of transport and trophic effects, migrants can uniquely alter nutrient and energy flow, the structure and dynamics of (meta-)communities and represent a powerful yet underappreciated dimension of biodiversity. These transport and trophic effects ...Habilitation Thesis -
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Cultural studies of collaborative science: disentangling interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary cultures, practices and policies
(2022)At the center of this thesis is an inquiry into how collaborative interdisciplinary research (IDR) and transdisciplinary research (TDR) can more effectively address scientific and societal challenges. Worldwide multidimensional crises urgently call for more collaborative research with the aim of transforming social reality. However, many factors still act as obstacles to high-impact research, resulting in deficiencies and disconnects ...Habilitation Thesis -
Democratic Commitment: Explaining Citizens’ Tolerance for Democratic Backsliding
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Electro-Optical Memristors for Computing and Communication Applications
(2022)The increasing rates of data generation, collection, and transfer over collective networks - the Internet of Things (IoT) – are shaping an interconnected society progressively depends on the availability of efficient computing and communication systems. For the last 50 years, the evolution of computational architectures has been largely driven by Moore’s scaling law and the breakthroughs of the CMOS technology. However, the continuous ...Habilitation Thesis -
Understanding and predicting biodiversity change in phytoplankton communities
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Understanding policy dynamics: Insights from policy design and policy feedback
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Environmental Transmission of Pathogens and Implications on Infectious Disease Surveillance
(2022)Indirect disease transmission occurs when pathogens are shed into the environment during transmission from infected to susceptible people. This environmentally-mediated transmission is characteristic of respiratory, gastrointestinal, and nosocomial pathogens, and can be conceptualized by the commonly described “F-diagram”. The “F-diagram” is a model of the role environmental compartments (food, fluids, fingers, fomites, fields, and flies) ...Habilitation Thesis -
Environmental Chemistry of Biomolecules
(2022)This habilitation thesis entitled “Environmental Chemistry of Biomolecules” focusses on determining chemical information to evaluate water quality and to protect human health and ecosystem functioning. Such knowledge is crucial for public authorities to manage water resources especially as we are facing growing inputs of bioactive chemicals with adverse environmental effects. My work is rooted in environmental and analytical chemistry of ...Habilitation Thesis -
Team Reflection in Action Teams: Implications for Research and Practice
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Facts and values: Decision analysis for complex public environmental decision problems
(2022)Decision analysis can support complex public environmental problems in a consistent, structured way. My field of research is prescriptive decision theory, focusing on multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA), specifically multi-attribute value theory and utility theory. After an introduction, I review MCDA for environmental decision-making from the view of operational research (OR). MCDA is widely used in practice, but uncertainty and ...Habilitation Thesis -
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Strategic use of the bioactive properties of n–3 fatty acids and plant secondary compounds in the diet of ruminant farm animals
(2021)Ruminant production systems are increasingly critically discussed for reasons that can be summarized as environmental, ethical, animal welfare, and human health concerns. Looking at the development during the past decades and the predictions for the ones to come, ruminant-derived food production will however still rather increase than decrease. The impressively enhanced production efficiency via breeding strategies in ruminants contributes ...Habilitation Thesis -
Process and Configurational Perspectives in Corporate Sustainability
(2020)The collection of manuscripts submitted as habilitation in management science outlines a research agenda towards more process and configurational research in corporate sustainability. The habilitation thesis is structured in three sections. Section 1 contains five empirical studies that each offer a unique process and configurational perspective on issues of managerial relevance in corporate sustainability. These studies draw on various ...Habilitation Thesis