About
Curriculum Vitae
2011-current: Academic Officer Executive Office at the IASS Potsdam
2010-2011: Research Fellow of the TransGov Project at the IASS Potsdam
2009-2011: Consultant for UN-Water Decade Programme on Capacity Building, Bonn
2005-2010: Academic Officer of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change, Bonn
2004-2011: Doctorate in Political Science at Freie Universität Berlin
2003-2008: Intern and consultant at Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik and at the German Ministry for the Environment
2000-2005: Lecturer Euro Business College Berlin
1996-2002: M.A. in Philosophy, Business, Law at Freie Universität Berlin
Research Interests:
- Broad interest in sustainability issues, particularly global water governance
- Interested in the role of the human dimensions of global change, special focus on institutional dimensions research
- Governance in the Anthropocene
Selected Publications
Schmidt, F. 2012: Auf dem Weg zu einem globalen Wasserregime. Regimetheoretische Erklärungen und praktischen Anforderungen nach 30 Jahren globaler Wasserpolitik, FU Dissertationen Online, Berlin
Schmidt, F. (forthcoming): Governing Planeatry Boundaries. Enabling or limiting condition for Transitions towards Sustainability?, chapter in Meuleman, L.: Transgovernance. Advancing Sustainability Governance, Springer
Rik Leemans, Ghassem Asrar, Antonio Busalacchi, Josep Canadell, John Ingram, Anne Larigauderie, Harold Mooney, Carlos Nobre, Anand Patwardhan, Martin Rice, Falk Schmidt, Sybil Seitzinger, Hassan Virji, Charles Vorosmarty and Oran Young (2009): Developing a common strategy for integrative global environmental change research and outreach: the Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP), Strategy paper, in: Current Opinion Environmental Sustainability, 1/2009, pages 1-10
