Becker, Sebastian

Georg-Elias-Müller-Institute of Psychology

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e-Mail:	sebastian.becker@stud.uni-goettingen.de
Consultation:	on appointment

Biographic

07/2013 - 07/2014	Member of the Systemic Coaching for Junior Professionals program led by instructors from the ISB Wiesloch
2012 - 2013	Member of the interdisciplinary TRANSDISS project initialized by the Network Technology Assessment (NTA), funded by BMBF
since 10/2011	doctoral student in the PhD programm "Biodiversity and Society" and member of the Department for Social and Communication Psychology (Prof. Dr. Margarete Boos)
10/2010 - 02/2011	graduate student from the basic track "Design Thinking" of the d.school at the Hasso-Plattner-Institute (HPI), University of Potsdam
02/2007 - 01/2009	doctoral student at the GGNB program "Biomolecules", scientific member at the Max-Planck-Institute for biophysical Chemistry in the group of Dr. Kollmar (unfinished phd)
01/2007	Diploma thesis: Development, Implementation and Application of a Java-based workflow- algorithm for analysis of gene expression data in cooperation with the company BIOBASE GmbH in Wolfenbüttel, Grade: very good
10/1999 - 01/2007	Studies of Biology at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany. Major: microbiology; Minor: zoology, genetics and informatics (main focus: bioinformatics and biological databases)

Publications

Becker S. and Scheibler U., Netzwerke für den „Wandel“: Soziale Netzwerke und die Beziehungskultur von Change Agents am Beispiel des Göttinger Pilotprojekts PermaKulturRaum, in: Friedrich J., Halsband A., Minkmar L. (eds.). Conference Proceedings of Biodiversity and Society. Societal dimensions of the conservation and utilization of biological diversity. Goettingen University Press: Goettingen, Pages: 33-43. Published in November 2013 [link to Open Access proceedings (PDF)]
Becker S. (2012). Beschäftigung im Grünen – welche Wirkungsweise der Permakulturgarten auf die Persönlichkeit der dort aktiven Menschen hat. Treffpunkt Biologische Vielfalt XI. BfN [link to Open Access proceedings (PDF)]
Becker S., Homeyer, N., Konovalova, T., Stegmaier, P., Lewicki-Potapov, B., Voss, N., Kel, A. (2010). ExPlain™ - WAX: Causal Analysis of Gene Batteries and Identification of Key Nodes in Signal Transduction Networks. Applied and Computational Mathematics 9, 34-49.
Odronitz F., Becker S., Kollmar M. (2009). Reconstructing the phylogeny of 21 completely sequenced arthropod species based on their motor proteins. BMC Genomics 10, 173.

Talks and presentations

2014

‘Resilience – just do it?! Governing for resilience in vulnerable places’ Workshop in Groningen, 9.-10.October [link to conference website]
DeGrowth 2014 in Leipzig, 2.-6.9.2014 [Workshop] [link to the conference website]
12. Annual Meeting of the network intercultural gardens in Göttingen, 9.-11.5.2014 (talk) [link to the agenda]
3. international conference Resilience 2014 in Montpellier, France, 4.-8.5.2014 (talk) [link to the agenda]

2013

10. Tagung der Nachwuchsgruppe Umweltsoziologie (NGU) at the University of Flensburg, 09/2013 (poster) [link to the agenda]
Tagung "Politische und gesellschaftliche Herausforderungen durch den Klimawandel" at KWI in Essen, 05/2013 (talk) [link to website]
Bundestagung "Lernort Bauernhof" in Altenkirchen, 02/2013 (poster presentation) [link to my poster as PDF file]

2012

ScienceSlam in Göttingen. Becker S. (2012). Vom Parasiten zum Förderer des Planeten Erde, 12/2012 (talk)
Internationale Tagung "Biodiversität und Gesellschaft" an der Georg-August Universität Göttingen. Becker S. und Scheibler U. (2012). Wer sind eigentlich die Change Agents? Analyse der Beziehungskultur von Menschen die sich für den Schutz der Biodiversität einsetzen am Beispiel des Göttinger Uni-Projekts PermaKulturRaum. 11/2012 (talk + poster)
RIC Herbsttag(ung) und Netzwerktreffen bei Research in Community in Freiburg. Becker S. (2012). Change Agents und ihre Beziehungskultur innerhalb ihrer Netzwerke. 11/2012 (talk + poster)
Geisteswissenschaftliche Einblicke, Projektpräsentationen im Rahmen des Tages des GSGG

Becker S. (2012). "Vitamin-B" brauchts auch zum Weltretten: wie sieht die Beziehungskultur von Change Makern aus? 10/2012 (talk + poster)
Sustainability Summit an der Leuphana: Becker S. (2012). Activity in the Garden – How does a permaculture garden nourish a more active society? 02/2012 (poster)

2011

Interdisziplinäres Expertentreffen im Rahmen des Übereinkommens über die biologische Vielfalt an der Internationalen Naturschutzakademie Insel Vilm, 08/2011 (talk)

Lectures

Winter term 2013/14	Permakultur I, Projektmodul B.ÖSM.210 (in cooperation with Uwe Scheibler)
Summer term 2014	Permakultur II, Projektmodul B.ÖSM.220 (in cooperation with Uwe Scheibler)