• Sociologist and graduate political scientist
• Studies at the University of Regensburg and the FU Berlin
• PhD and research associate at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)
• since 2001 Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) at KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
• Projects and publications on nuclear waste management issues (since 2001)
• Member of the BMU Expert Group on Swiss Deep Geological Repositories (www.escht.de, since 2006)
• Editorial director of the journal "Technikfolgenabschätzung ¬- Theorie und Praxis" (2006-2013)
• Main fields of work: Technology assessment, technology conflicts and repository research.
• Memberships: Network Technology Assessment (NTA), German Political Science Association (DVPW), Network Nuclear Memory (NeNuG).
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peter.hocke@kit.edu