• About the person

Social Scientist/Diploma Psychologist (Diploma at Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg and PhD at University of Kassel, Center for Environmental Systems Research).

10/2019 Senior Researcher at the Institute for Radioecology and Radiation Protection, University of Hannover: nuclear waste management in Germany, public opinion and trust, transdisciplinarity, psychological research

2018 - 2019 Senior Researcher at the Öko-Institut Freiburg, Department of Sustainable Products & Material Flows: Sustainability issues in the life cycle of products and systems; radioactive waste; energy transition

2009 - 2017 Post-Doc (from 2013 Senior Assistant) at the Transdisciplinarity Lab, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland: socio-technical and socio-ecological topics: Nuclear waste, phosphorus recycling, energy efficiency, sufficiency behavior, acceptance of energy technologies.

2005 - 2009 PhD student and research associate in the Glowa-Danube project at the Center for Environmental Systems Research (CESR), University of Kassel, Germany

1998 - 2005 Studies of Psychology and Research Assistant, Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg, Germany: "Strategic Thinking and Complex Problem Solving" for the Virtual University of Bavaria

1995 - 1998 Apprenticeship as industrial clerk and work in the personnel department, Energieversorgung Oberfranken AG, Bayreuth, Germany

• Research focus

Interdisciplinary risk research, participatory processes, agent-based modeling, qualitative and quantitative methods of social research, sustainability

• Current projects

TRANSENS

• Previous projects (selection)

Using formal social networks to promote energy sufficient behavior in cities. Project within the National Research Programme NRP 71 - "Managing energy consumption" - in cooperation with the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, School of Engineering. 2014-2018.

Integration of sustainable multi-energy-hub systems from a societal perspective (IMES-SE). Project for the National Research Programme NRP 70 - "Energy Turnaround". Interdisciplinary project collaboration with the ETH Energy Science Center. 2014-2017.

Values and opinions in radioactive waste management. Swiss Federal Office of Energy. 2010-2011.

• Publications (selection of peer reviewed papers, see Google Scholar)

C. Drögemüller, P. Krütli, K.-J. Röhlig, W. Schulz, R. Seidl, C. Walther (2021): Science and civil society: joint research on high-level radioactive waste management - the TRANSENS collaborative project, Strahlenschutzpraxis 03/21, pp. 71-77, 27th ed. ISSN: 0947-434X

Seidl, R., Flüeler, T. & Krütli, P. (2021). Sharp discrepancies between nuclear and conventional toxic waste: technical analysis and public perception. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 125422. doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.125422

Seidl, R., Wirth, T. von & Krütli, P.. (2019). Social acceptance of distributed energy systems in Swiss, German, and Austrian energy transitions. Energy Research & Social Science, 54, 117-128. doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2019.04.006

Stefanelli, A., & Seidl, R. (2017). Opinion Communication on Contested Topics: How Empirics and Arguments can Improve Social Simulation. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 20(4), 3. doi: 10.18564/jasss.3492

Seidl, R., & Barthel, R. (2017). Linking scientific disciplines: hydrology and social sciences. Journal of Hydrology, 550, 441-452. doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.05.008

Stefanelli, A., Seidl, R., & Siegrist, M. (2017). The discursive politics of nuclear waste: Rethinking participatory approaches and public perceptions over nuclear waste storage repositories in Switzerland. Energy Research & Social Science, 34, 72-81. doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2017.05.042

Stefanelli, A. & Seidl, R. (2016). Opinions on Contested Energy Infrastructures: An Empirically-Based Simulation Approach. Part of the special issue on "Social simulation in environmental psychology" in: Journal of Environmental Psychology. doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2016.06.003

Seidl, R. (2015). A functional-dynamic reflection on participatory processes in modeling projects. Ambio, 44(8), 750-765. doi: 10.1007/s13280-015-0670-8

Seidl, R., Krütli, P., Moser, C., & Stauffacher, M. (2013). Values in the siting of contested infrastructure: the case of repositories for nuclear waste. Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences, 10(2), 107-125. doi: 10.1080/1943815x.2013.824486

Moser, C., Stauffacher, M., Smieszek, T., Seidl, R., Krütli, P., & Scholz, R. W. (2013). Psychological factors in discounting negative impacts of nuclear waste. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 35(0), 121-131. doi: dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2013.06.003

Seidl, R., et al. (2013). Science with Society in the Anthropocene. Ambio, 42(1), 5-12. doi: 10.1007/s13280-012-0363-5.

Seidl, R., Moser, C., Stauffacher, M., & Krütli, P. (2013). Perceived risk and benefit of nuclear waste repositories: four opinion clusters. Risk Analysis, 33(6), 1038-1048. doi: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2012.01897x.