Dr. Falk Schützenmeister

- Affiliated with the Science, Technology, and Society Center and the European Center for Excellence • Organizing the Workshop "Climate Change Mitigation: Considering Lifestyle Options in Europe and the US," April 29-30, 2009 • Studying the interconnection between lifestyle choices, global warming and related policies • Organized the German-American Conference ”How Do We Know What We Know About Climate Change,” April 24-26, 2008 • Conducted interviews with leading scientists and research managers in the US

Wrote a comparative consulting report on research management assessing the effects of new funding models for the German Research Foundation (DFG, the NSF equivalent) based on qualitative interviews with leading scientists

Designed and conducted an online survey on High-Performance Work Systems (HPWS) in the aircraft industry surveying the relationship between job flexibility and work satisfaction among employees

- Designed the project ”Problem-oriented Research and Scientific Dynamics: The Case of Atmospheric Science” and wrote the funding proposal. The project was approved by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) • Conducted in-person expert interviews among climatologists in Germany and the US • Coded, designed, and managed sample-based online surveys among scientists from 43 countries and various research organizations as universities, National Labs, and federal agencies (i.e. NASA), atta

• Implemented and managed mail surveys as well as projects using computer-assisted telephone interviews (CATI) • Surveyed topics were e.g. life quality in German cities, perception of crime, psycho-social crises, and every day life in Nazi Germany • Conducted mail surveys with up to 6,000 respondents and longitudinal design (panel survey) • Studied the determinants of survey participation and resulting biases, using advanced techniques of non-response and panel analysis