JÜRGEN SCHEFFRAN

Education

1976 - 1983 Physics study and diploma, Philipps University of Marburg, Germany

Diploma thesis: Complexity and stability of macro systems

1986 – 1989 Physics PhD in Marburg on dynamic conflict modeling

Research and professional experience

Since August 2004: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences
• Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
• Senior Researcher, Information Trust Institute
• Senior Research Scientist (Mac Arthur grant), Program in Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security (ACDIS).
• PI/Coordinator of multi-disciplinary research project “Towards Energy Security and Sustainability – Renewable Energy and Land Use in Illinois”

Research and teaching in:

• Energy security, climate change, environmental policy, sustainability science
• Complex systems analysis, decision-making, integrated assessment, computer modeling
• Technology Assessment, arms control, non-proliferation, international security

2001 – 2004: Senior researcher at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Department of Integrated Systems Analysis , Department of Global Change and Social Systems. Fields of work:

• Modeling and simulation in energy, climate, sustainable resource management
• Decision-making in environmental policy and integrated assessment
• Complex dynamic networks, extreme events, dangerous climate change Involvement in EUROPA Project, funded by the German Research Ministry
• Coordinator of Project on “Waste, Energy and Climate”, with focus on bioenergy (workshop, book)
• Project coordination “Actors, Coalitions, Complex Networks”
• Design and evaluation of EU proposals and projects (complex systems, agent-based modeling, fishery management, emerging science and technology)
• Expert a dvisory studies for the Technology Assessment Bureau of the German Bundestag (TAB) and the Federal Environmental Agency (UBA)
• Member German delegation, climate negotiations New Delhi 2002 (COP-8); interviews and expert survey among participants
• Involvement in MicroEnergy Project at Technical University of Berlin
• Visiting Professor, University of Paris (Pantheon-Sorbonne)

2000: Senior Researcher, Mathematics Department of Hamburg University: Project “Dynamic cooperative games and coalition formation in international systems”

1993 - 1999: Assistant professor (C1), Interdisciplinary Research Group in Science, Technology and Security (IANUS) and mathematics department, Technical University Darmstadt; research and teaching in security, environment and mathematical modeling, with emphasis on:

• Environmental conflict, energy security, climate change, sustainable development.
• Mathematical modeling of conflict and cooperation.
• Technology assessment, dual-use of space technologies.
• Nuclear arms control, non-proliferation, international missile control.
• Project management, international networking, conference organization.

1988 – 1993: Senior scientist, interdisciplinary research group IANUS, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Technical University Darmstadt; research/teaching in environment, conflict studies.

• Modelling of complex systems, command and control, neural networks.
• Assessment of military technology and arms control (C3I, neural networks, space systems)
• Scientific advisor for UN report on conversion for environmental protection

 Synergistic Activities

• Active involvement in funding proposals to BP and the Department of Energy for the establishment of bioenergy research centers (Nov/Dec. 2006).
• PI/Coordinator, Project “Renewable Energy and Land Use in Illinois” (since July 2006), including organization of international symposium “Fueling Change With Renewable Energy” (April 2007).
• Committee Member, UIUC Physics Conference “Understanding Complex Systems” (2006).
• Project Leader and Workshop Coordinator, Waste, Energy and Climate (2003-2004).
• Committee Member, Agent-Based Computational Modelling, EU Workshop Vienna (2003)
• Committee Member, Modelling Complex Dynamic Networks, Paris Workshop (2003)
• Project Coordinator , Actors, Coalitions, Complex Networks at PIK (2002-2003)
• Committee Member, OR in Environmental Management, German OR Society (2000)
• Founder/Project Leader, International Network of Engineers and Scientists Against Proliferation (1993-2005)

• Member, Ways for Improving International Stability, Technical Committee, International Federation of Automatic Control (1998-present)

Advisory positions include:

• Biofuels Working Group, Illinois Governor (since Nov. 2006).
• German Federal Environmental Agency (2002-2003)
• Technology Assessment Bureau of the German Parliament (2002)
• German delegation at climate negotiations in New Delhi (2002)
• Department for Disarmament Affairs, United Nations (1991).

Selected publications

Scheffran, J., S. Pickl (2000) Control and Game-Theoretic Assessment of Climate Change - Options for Joint Implementation, Annals of Operations Research (97), 203-212.

Scheffran, J. (2000) The Dynamic Interaction Between Economy and Ecology. ­Cooperation, Stability and Sustainability for a Dynamic-Game Model of Resource Conflicts, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, (53) 2000, 371-380.

Scheffran,J. (2001) Stability and control of value-cost dynamic games, Central European Journal of Operations Research, 9(7), 197-225.

Ipsen, D., R. Rösch, and J. Scheffran (2001) Cooperation in Global Climate Policy: Potentialities and Limitations. Energy Policy, 29(4): 315-326.

Scheffran, J. (2002) Economic Growth, Emission Reduction and the Choice of Energy Technology in a Dynamic-Game Framework, in: P. Chamoni, et al., Operations Research Proceedings 2001, Berlin: Springer, 329-336.

Scheffran, J. (2002) Conflict and Cooperation in Energy and Climate Change. The Framework of a Dynamic Game of Power-Value Interaction, in: M. Holler et.al. (ed.), Yearbook New Political Economy 20, Mohr Siebeck, 229-254.

Scheffran, J. (2004) Interaction in Climate Games: The Case of Emissions Trading, in: J. Geldermann, M. Treitz (eds.), Decision Theory and Practise in Industrial Production and Environmental Research (German title), Aachen: Shaker, 1-18.

Ott, K., G. Klepper, S. Lingner, A. Schäfer, J. Scheffran, D. Sprinz (2004) Reasoning Goals of Climate Protection - Specification of Art.2 UNFCCC, Fed. Environmental Agency, Berlin.

Johnke, B., J. Scheffran, K. Soyez, eds. (2004) Waste, Energy, and Climate: Ways and Concepts for an Integrated Resource Use (in German), Berlin: Erich-Schmidt-Verlag.

Eisenack, K., J. Scheffran, and J. Kropp (2005) Viability analysis of management frameworks for fisheries, Environmental Modeling and Assessment, 2005 (online first October 2005).

Scheffran, J. (2005) The Formation of Adaptive Coalitions, in: T.E. Raghavan, et al. (eds), Dynamic Games and Applications, Boston: Birkhäuser, 2005 (accepted).

Scheffran, J. (2006) Tools in Stakeholder Assessment and Interaction. in: S. Stoll-Kleemann, M. Welp (Eds.), Stakeholder Dialogues in Natural Resources Management: Theory and practice, Springer 2006.

Billari, F., T. Fent, A. Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, and J. Scheffran (eds.) (2006) Agent Based Computational Modeling, Springer/Physica, Berlin/Heidelberg.

Scheffran, J., B. Hannon (2007) From Complex Conflicts to Stable Cooperation, Complexity (accepted).

Scheffran, J. (2007) Adaptive Management of Energy Transitions in Long-Term Climate Change, Computational Management Science, 2007 (online first).

Kropp, J., J. Scheffran, eds. (2007) Decision Making and Risk Management in Sustainability Science: Advanced Methods, Nova Science, New York (forthcoming).