Fields of expertise:

• Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
• strategic sustainability management
• sustainable product management and design
• sustainability assessment
• Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
• business models for sustainability
• circular economy

Master thesis:

• Topics related to
  • Corporate sustainability management, corporate sustainability strategies and business models
  • Sustainability management and change management
  • Organizational culture, purpose and corporate sustainability management

Fields of expertise:

CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY and INNOVATION MANAGEMENT

• Corporate Sustainability
• Business Models for Sustainability
• Sustainability-related innovation and performance measurement
• Innovations towards Circular Economy
• Digitalisation
• SME

Currently no topics

Fields of expertise:

• Sustainable transition and innovation (focus research area: mobility)
• Transdisciplinary learning for sustainable development

Master thesis:

• Topics related to
  • mobility transition / decarbonised sustainable passenger and freight transport
  • Energy transition / adoption of renewable energy technologies
  • Economic, environmental and social assessment of innovations
  • Sustainability learning 

Fields of expertise:

• Sustainability and environmental governance
• Energy system analysis (e.g., agent-based modeling of energy markets)
• Natural resource management (fisheries, irrigation systems, forest management)
• Commons problems & behavioral economics
• Evolutionary psychology
• Altruism and egoism from an evolutionary perspective
• Systematic creativity in science / invention systems (e.g., TRIZ)
• Machine learning & statistics
• Philosophy of science & evolutionary epistemology
• Formal semantics (e.g., Wordnet) & computer-based ontologies

Currently no topics

Fields of expertise:

• Complex systems
• Agent-based modelling
• Equation-based modelling
• Systems science
• Networks
• Machine learning
• Data science
• Theoretical and computer-oriented physics

Bachelor thesis or master thesis:

• Complex Contagion
• Opinion Dynamics
• Origin of Cooperation
• AI for agent-based modelling

Fields of expertise:

• Applied Computational Methods with respect to ecological challenges:
• NLP and Textmining / Big Data / Topic Modelling / Sentiment Analysis
• Climate Communication / Media Climate Debate
• Environmental System sciences / Carbon Footprint Modelling
• Social network analysis / Social Diffusion Processes / Climate Emotion Diffusion
• Early-warning signals
• Formalization of verbal sociopsychological models to mathematical models

Bachelor or master thesis:

• Climate debate - Threat and solution orientation of activism blogs and science communication blogs
• Climate communication & new technologies (AI, social media, …)
• Discourse Analysis of climate protection and climate change narratives in news articles

Master thesis:

• Eco Games - insights from player feedback on their educational value (in collaboration with the Department of Psychology)

Fields of expertise:

• Bioeconomy
• Bio-based innovation
• Technology assessment and forecasting
• Innovation management
• Market analyses, potentials and marketing

Currently no topics

Currently no topics

Fields of science:

• Empirical social research (504007)
• Climate change (105205)
• Renewable energy (207106)
• Environmental sociology (504029)

Bachelor thesis:

Energy transition: Possible research questions:

• How do individuals evaluate different scenarios of a decarbonized energy system? What knowledge is prevalent? What misconceptions?
• Smart energy technologies allow – together with other technologies, such as photovoltaic power plants, electric vehicles – to explore new possibilities to redesign a sustainable energy system.
  • How does the adoption process of different technologies (smart energy technologies, photovoltaic power plants, electric vehicles, etc.) look like amongst private households? Are there specific technologies, which have an “enabling potential”, i.e., foster the adoption of other technologies for a sustainable energy transition?
  • Do drivers and barriers for adopting different smart energy technologies vary, depending on the technology in question?

Low-carbon transport: Possible research questions:

• How do individuals evaluate different scenarios of low-carbon transport options? What knowledge is prevalent? What misconceptions?
• Does specific context information of a transport policies (e.g., providing more or less detailed information about consequences of transport measures) foster or hinder the support of these policy measures for low-carbon transport?

Fields of expertise:

• Climate Psychology
• Decision Making
• Decision Analysis
• Economic Psychology
• Behavioral Economics
• Experimental Economicy
• Collective Behavior
• Energy Policy
• Energy Transition
• Sustainability Transitions
• Sustainability
• Environmental Psychology
• Nudges
• Sustainable Development
• Just Transitions
• Complexity
• Climate Change Communication

Master thesis:

• Topics related to his courses “Environmental Decision Making” and “Human Factors in Transitions”, but also
• Acceptance of ambitious climate policies in specific target groups (e.g. farmers, workers in carbon-intense industries, …)
• Discourse analyses related to sustainability and climate change in Austria

If you are interested, you can find more information at https://homepage.uni-graz.at/de/thomas.brudermann/thomas.brudermann-teaching-and-thesis-supervision/ .