Arno SimonsCurriculum Vitae Í arnosimons.com

Personal InformationYear of Birth 1982Nationality German

Research InterestsEnvironmental policy, sustainable transitions, collaborative economy, science-technology-policy link, mixed-method approaches

Academic Education2010–2015 Doctorate, Sociology, Technische Universität Berlin.

Department of Sociology. Expected: Fall 2015.

2006–2009 Master of Arts, History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science (HPSS),Universität Bielefeld.Institute of Science and Technology Studies. Final Grade: 1.0 (German grading system).

2003–2006 Bachelor of Arts, Social Sciences, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.Department of Social Sciences. Final Grade: 1.1 (German grading system).

Experience Abroad2014 Delft University of Technology (Holland), Visiting Scholar (Jan–Oct).

Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management.

2013 Columbia University (USA), Visiting Scholar (Aug–Dec).Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy.

2007 Maastricht University (Holland), Visiting Student (Sep–Dec).Department of Technology & Society Studies.

2007 University of Helsinki (Finland), Visiting Student (Sep–Dec).Department of Political Science.

Work ExperienceSince 2015 Researcher, Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW).

Research Field: Ecological Economics and Environmental Policy

2009–2014 Researcher, Department of Sociology, Technische Universität Berlin.Member of the Innovation in Governance Group.

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2008–2009 Database Manager, Socio-Economical Panel Study, Deutsches Institut fürWirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin.Project “SOEP–long”: I helped to restructure the official SOEP data sets into the longformat (programming, documentation, presentation).

2008 Interviewer, Department of Social Sciences, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.I pretested and conducted CATI assisted telephone interviews at the Department of So-cial Sciences’ telephone-laboratory (Projects by Deutsches Jugendinstitut and DeutschesZentralinstitut für soziale Fragen).

2007 Researcher, Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh).I designed a self-standing multi-media presentation for the organization’s 140 anniversary.

2007 Interviewer, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universität Bielefeld.I conducted qualitative interviews in Bielefeld and Münster.

2007 Intern, The Virtual Laboratory, Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science(MPIWG).I helped to develop the website for The Virtual Laboratory.

2005–2006 Tutor, Department of Social Sciences, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.I worked as tutor for the statistics I and II classes.

2005 Intern, German Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women und Youth (BMBFSFJ).I prepared the commentary and a brochure on the German Government to the 7th Fam-ilienbericht (report on families).

PublicationsPeer-Reviewed Journal Articles

2015 Mann, Carsten, and Arno Simons. “Local emergence and international develop-ments of conservation trading systems: innovation dynamics and related prob-lems.” Environmental Conservation 42(3).

2014 Voß, Jan-Peter, and Arno Simons. “Instrument constituencies and the supply sideof policy innovation: The social life of emissions trading.” Environmental Politics35(5):735-754.

2014 Simons, Arno, Alexandra Lis, and Ingmar Lippert. “The political duality of scale-making in environmental markets.” Environmental Politics 23(4):632–49.

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters2015 Simons, Arno. “Fact-making in permit markets: document networks as infrastruc-

tures of emissions trading.” In Knowing Governance. The epistemic constructionof political order, edited by Jan-Peter Voß and Richard Freeman. Palgrave.

2015 Robaey, Zoe, and Arno Simons. “Responsible management of social experiments:Challenges for policymaking.” Pp. 87–104 in Responsible innovation, Volume 2:Concepts, approaches, and applications, edited by Bert-Jaap Koops, Jeroen vanden Hoven, Henny Romijn, Tsjalling Swierstra, and Ilse Oosterlake. Springer.

2014 Simons, Arno, and Jan-Peter Voß. “Politics by other means. The making of theemissions trading instrument as a ‘pre-history’ of carbon trading.” Pp. 51–68 inThe politics of carbon markets, edited by Richard Lane and Benjamin Stephan.Routledge.

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2009 Legewie, Joscha, and Arno Simons. 2009. “Zur Rationalität von Selbstmor-dattentätern. Kritische Überlegungen Zur Anwendung von rational-choice Theo-rien.” Pp. 245–74 in Theorien der Verfassungsreform, edited by Susumu Shikano,Joachim Behnke, and Thomas Bräuninger. Wiesbaden: Springer.

Other Publications2014 Mann, Carsten, Jan-Peter Voß, Arno Simons, Nina Amelung, and Till Runge.

2014. Challenging futures of biodiversity offsets and banking. Critical issues forrobust forms of biodiversity conservation. Policy report, Innovation in GovernanceResearch Group, Technische Universität Berlin.

2014 Mann, Carsten, Jan-Peter Voß, Nina Amelung, Arno Simons, Till Runge, andLouisa Grabner. 2014. Challenging futures of citizen panels. Critical issues forrobust forms of public participation. Policy report, Innovation in GovernanceResearch Group, Technische Universität Berlin.

2013 Simons, Arno. 2013. “A politics of inevitability. The privatization of the Berlinwater company, the global city discourse, and governance in 1990s Berlin, by RossBeveridge.” Critical Policy Studies 7(1):92–95.

2009 Simons, Arno. 2009. Between science and values. The Pembina Institute andits role in the construction of environmental problems of the Albertan oil sands.Master thesis, Universität Bielefeld.

2007 Simons, Arno. 2007. “140 Jahre chemische Gesellschaften in Deutschland.”Nachrichten aus der Chemie 55(11):1099–1100.

Grants and Scholarships2014 Travel Grant, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

Presentation, University of Edinburgh.

2013 Travel Grant, National University of Singapore (NUS).Presentation, NUS.

2010 Visiting Scholarship, German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).Visiting Scholar, Columbia University.

2010 Travel Grant, Universität Bielefeld.Presentation, Universität Bielefeld.

2010 Travel Grant, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).Presentation, Washington, D.C.

2007 Study Abroad Scholarship, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).Visiting Student, Maastricht University.

2007 Student Research Scholarship, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).Research paper.

2004 Study Abroad Scholarship, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).Visiting Student, University of Helsinki.

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Memberships in academic networkssince 2014 International network of the Centre for Science, Knowledge and Policy (SKAPE),

based at the University of Edinburgh

since 2013 International network of the EU COST Action Innovations in Climate Gover-nance: Sources, Patterns and Effects (INOGOV)

since 2009 Innovation in Governance Research Group, based at the Technische UniversitätBerlin

ReferencesProf. Jan-Peter Voß, Soziologie der Politik, Technische Universität Berlin

Prof. Richard Freeman, Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh

Prof. Reiner Keller, Soziologie, Universität Ausburg

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