Thomas Jahn

 Thomas Jahn is co-founder of ISOE, member of the executive board and its spokesperson. He is head of the research unit Transdisciplinary Methods and Concepts. At the Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre BiK-F, Thomas Jahn is the spokesperson of the Project Area F "Knowledge transfer & social-ecological dimensions". Thomas Jahn studied Sociology, Political Science, German Studies and History at the University of Freiburg and Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. There he received his doctorate in 1989 with a thesis on "Crisis as a Mode of Societal Experience: Outline of a Social-Ecological Conception of Society". He has done research and published on social-ecological research, methods of transdisciplinary research and methods of knowledge integration.