Academic Education
2017: Dr. rer. pol., Sociology of Technology and Environment, Topic: “Individual rebound behavior in car-based mobility”, University of Stuttgart, Germany
2011: Diploma in Psychology, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany
Professional Experience (selected)
Since 2022: Vice President for Sustainability, Internal Communication, Transfer, and Transdisciplinarity, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Since 2020: Professor for Sustainable Mobility and Transdisciplinary Research Methods, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Since 2019: Research group leader and scientific project leader, Research Institute for Sustainability (RIFS) Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, Germany
2017 – 2019: Research Associate (PostDoc), IASS Potsdam, Germany
2015: Visiting researcher, University of California Berkeley, Transportation Sustainability Research Center, USA
2012 – 2014: Visiting Lecturer, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Faculty for Sustainability, Germany
Since 2022: Member of the Expertenbeirat Klimaschutz in der Mobilität (EKM) of the German Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport
Since 2022: Member of the board of Allianz pro Schiene e. V.
2021: Appointed expert at the state parliament of Saxony, Committee for Economy, Work and Transport
2020: Member of the Advisory Board for Climate Protection for the Mayor of Düsseldorf, Germany
Since 2019: Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the journal GAIA-Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society
Since 2014: Member of the German Psychological Association (DGPS), Section Environmental Psychology and Member of the German Sociological Association (DGS), Section Environmental Sociology
2022-2023: Climate Solutions and social mobility in Brandenburg | Research Funding Line, Climate Change
Center Berlin Brandenburg
2019-2024: The Transport Transition as a Socio–ecological Real–World–Experiment (EXPERI), German Federal
Ministry of Education and Research
2016 – 2019: Kopernikus–Projekt Energiewende Navigationssystem (ENavi), German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Becker, S., Schneidemesser, D., Caseiro, A., Götting, K., Schmitz, S., & Schneidemesser, E. (2022): Pop-up cycling infrastructure as a niche innovation for sustainable transportation in European cities: An inter-and transdisciplinary case study of Berlin. Sustainable Cities and Society, 87, 104168, doi:10.1016/j.scs.2022.104168
Becker, S., & Renn, O. (2022): Wissenschaftliche Politikberatung lehren und lernen: Workshop-Serieam Institut für transformative Nachhaltigkeitsforschung, GAIA-Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 31 (3), 178 – 181, doi: 10.14512/gaia.31.3.9.
Becker, S., & Sterz, A. (2021): Drei Jahre Berliner Mobilitätsgesetz : Wie der institutionelle Umbau die Berliner Verwaltung handlungsfähig für die Umsetzung macht, Internationales Verkehrswesen, 73 (3), 10 – 16.
Becker, S., Bögel, P., & Upham, P. (2021): The role of social identity in institutional work for sociotechnical transitions: The case of transport infrastructure in Berlin. Technological forecasting and social change: an international journal, 162: 120385, doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120385.
Verfuerth, C., Henn, L., & Becker, S. (2019): Is it up to them? Individual leverages for sufficiency. GAIA-Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 28(4), 374 - 380, doi:10.14512/gaia.28.4.9
Weiand, L., Schmitz, S., Becker, S., Niehoff, N., Schwartzbach, F., & von Schneidemesser, E. (2019):
Climate change and air pollution. The connection between traffic intervention policies and public
acceptance in a local context. Environmental Research Letters,
14(8): 085008, doi:10.1088/1748 – 9326/ab299b