Function and Responsibilities:

Pia-Johanna Schweizer leads the research group "Systemic Risk" at the Research Institute for Sustainability  - Helmholtz Centre Potsdam. She is speaker of the research area "Global Implications of Socio-technical Change".

Career:

Pia-Johanna Schweizer has led the research group "Systemic Risks" since joining the Research Institute for Sustainability (RIFS) in September 2016. From 2002 until 2003 she was a researcher at the Academy for Technology Assessment in Baden-Württemberg (Germany). From 2003 until 2008 she was a researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Technology and Environmental Sociology of Stuttgart University. From 2008 until 2012 she was a senior researcher and project leader at the Interdisciplinary Research Center Risk and Sustainable Technology Development (ZIRN) at Stuttgart University. From 2009 until 2016 she led the unit on risk governance at the non-profit institute for communication and cooperation research DIALOGIK. She was a visiting scholar at Michigan State University, Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability (CSIS) from 2013 through to 2014. From 2012 until 2016 she was a senior researcher and project leader at the Center for Interdisciplinary Risk and Innovation Research (ZIRIUS) at Stuttgart University, where she coordinated the Helmholtz Alliance ENERGY-TRANS research field "Planning Governance".

Education:

Pia-Johanna Schweizer studied Sociology and English & American Literature at University of Stuttgart (Germany) and University of Aberdeen (UK). In 2008, she gained a Ph.D. in Sociology from Stuttgart University with a dissertation on discursive governance.

Projects:

• Horizon Europe project Disaster Resilience for Extreme Climate Events (DIRECTED)
• Horizon 2020 project Reshaping European Advances towards Green Leadership Through Deliberative Approaches and Learning (REAL DEAL)