Vice President for Sustainability, Internal Communication, Transfer, and Transdisciplinarity

Prof. Dr.

Sophia Becker

3rd Vice-President of the TUB

Organization name Vice President for Sustainability, Internal Communication, Transfer, and Transdisciplinarity
Room H 1016
Address Straße des 17. Juni 135
10623 Berlin
Office hours By appointment.

Short biography

Sophia Becker studied in Münster and Paris, completing a Diplom degree in psychology. She earned her doctorate at the University of Stuttgart's Chair of Sociology of Technology, Risk and Environment where she wrote her dissertation titled Individuelles Rebound-Verhalten in der Pkw-Mobilität (Individual Rebound Behavior in Car Mobility). Following her studies, Becker conducted research on mobility at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) Potsdam, later renamed the Research Institute for Sustainability - Helmholtz Centre Potsdam (RIFS). In 2020 she was appointed professor of sustainability mobility and transdisciplinary research methods (NaMo) at TU Berlin.  Becker is also head of the research group Methods of Transformative Policy Advice at RIFS Potsdam.

Sophia Becker has been vice president for sustainability, internal communication, transfer, and transdisciplinarity since 1 April 2022.

She also taught at several institutions, including the Faculty of Sustainability at Leuphana University Lüneburg (2012 to 2014). In 2015 she undertook research on carsharing and individual life quality at the Transportation Sustainability Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley. Sophia Becker's research examines socio-technical transformation processes, sustainable mobility, individual behavior change, and mobility innovation. Her work also focuses on transdiscplinary research methods. A particular focus of her research is dedicated to examining and supporting the mobility transition in Berlin and Brandenburg. Professor Becker is active in science communication and policy advising at municipal, state, and federal level.

Areas of responsibility

  • Sustainability, Council for Sustainable Development 
  • Implementation of climate protection strategy, Climate Action Task Force 
  • Advancement of junior scholars, Center for Junior Scholars
  • Climate Change Center (CCC) Berlin Brandenburg and Einstein Center Climate Change (ECCC) 
  • Campus Charlottenburg 
  • Climate KIC, Chemical Invention Factory (CIF) 
  • Centre for Entrepreneurship (CfE), sustainable entrepreneurship
  • Center for Intellectual Property  
  • Center for Technology and Society (CTS)  
  • Bauakademie (Building Academy) 
  • Internal communication
  • Transdisciplinarity; Science & Society Office; citizen science 
  • Knowledge and technology transfer
  • Transfer in the Berlin University Alliance and the TU9
  • Transdisciplinarity in the ENHANCE Alliance
  • Science Gallery, Hybrid Platform

The Executive Board's Strategic Planning

The Executive Board will provide regular reports on its strategic planning. This includes the 100-day program from summer semester 2022 as well as programs for the following semesters. The results of surveys and other activities as well as a review and the outcomes of the annual retreat for staff and students at TU Berlin will also be published.

Transparency, Participation and Development

Office of the Vice President for Sustainability, Internal Communication, Transfer, and Transdisciplinarity

Peter Schust

Vice President´s Office

peter.schust@tu-berlin.de

+49 (0) 30 314-24286

Room H 1017

Meike Ortmanns

Personal Assistant to the Vice President for Sustainability, Internal Communication, Transfer, and Transdisciplinarity

meike.ortmanns@tu-berlin.de

+49 30 314-70180

Virginia Engels

Personal Assistant to the Vice President for Sustainability, Internal Communication, Transfer, and Transdisciplinarity

engels@tu-berlin.de

+49 30 314-77384

Office hoursMon-Thur 9:00-14:00

Strategic Projects/Transdisciplinarity

Dr.

Audrey-Catherine Podann

Advisor for Strategic Projects

audrey.podann@tu-berlin.de

+49 30 314-29149

Room H 2052

Ann-Marie Ring

Speaker Research Forum City and Climate

ann-marie.ring@tu-berlin.de

+49 (0)30 314-26096

Room H 1106/a

Dr.

Anja Steglich

Speaker on Urban Transformation and Transfer, Coordination StadtManufaktur

anja.steglich@tu-berlin.de

+49 (0)30 314-26097

Room H 1106A

Nadin Gaasch

Speaker Research Forums for the Berlin University Alliance

nadin.gaasch@tu-berlin.de

Dr.

Kathrin Wieck

Speaker Research Forum City and Climate

kathrin.wieck@tu-berlin.de

+49 30 314-28277

Climate Change Center

Dr.

Anita Dame

Managing Director

anita.dame@tu-berlin.de

+49 30 314-22394

Room RKF 306

Birgit Holthaus

Science Communication

birgit.holthaus@tu-berlin.de

+49 151 292 753 89

Berit Petzsch

Project Management & Communication

berit.petzsch@tu-berlin.de

+49 30 314-73904

Room RKF 306

Charmaine Reith

Projekt Manager

reith@tu-berlin.de

+49 30 44720280