Dr Siegfried Behrendt
Research Manager
Dipl.-Biologist | Dipl.-Politologist
Research field
Resources, economies and resilienceThe person
Dr Siegfried Behrendt has worked at the IZT since 1990. Initially as project manager and coordinator of the "Ecological Economy" working group, Dr Behrendt took over the management of the "Technology and Innovation" cluster together with Britta Oertel in 2014 and became Head of Research for Resources, Economy and Resilience in 2019.
He completed his doctorate in 2009 at the Faculty of Computer Science, Economics and Law at the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg.
He has been a lecturer at the Berlin School of Economics and Law since 2000 and at the Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin since 2001.
In 1987, he was a staff member at the Science Centre Berlin. Before that, he studied political science and biology at the Free University of Berlin.
Expertise
- Technology design
- Future markets
- Resources
- Integrated roadmaps
- Future studies and foresight projects
Selected projects and publications
Projects
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2025 - 2028
Sustainability transformation in times of crisis: Using foresight methods to support forward-looking policy making
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2025
Field of action analysis on the topic of biodiversity and the economy
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2024 - 2025
Conception and planning of digital solutions to promote sustainable consumption for a circular economy
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2024 - 2025
Expertise and future workshop "Biodiversity parameters"
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2023 - 2025
Rebound effects through digital services and products
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2021 - 2024
Valuing Biodiversity - On the Modernisation of Economic Reporting in Germany
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2021 - 2023
Roadmap Future of Water Management
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2021 - 2023
Crisis radar - Strengthening the resilience of society, politics and the economy through crisis prediction
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2021
bio:fictions. Co-creative design fictions of the bioeconomy with innovators, stakeholders and influencers
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2020 - 2021
Public transport between the common good and commerce. Changing value creation structures through new mobility services
Publications
2025
Unexpected alliances - How can new information about ecosystems and their services become relevant for social action?
2024
Information about ecosystems and their services: Opportunities and challenges for agriculture
2024
Agro-Northwest Transformation Roadmap
2024
Transformation roadmap prospects for agricultural technology 2050
2024
Crisis radar - strengthening the resilience of society, politics and the economy through crisis forecasting
2023
Roadmap 2030
2023
Foresight report Drivers, discourses and transformation scenarios
2023
Use of NIRS in slurry application
2023
Wolfenbüttel District 4.0 Environmental opportunities and risks of digitalised services of general interest in suburbanised areas - A concept study using the example of Wolfenbüttel District