Ehemalige Mitarbeiter
Thomas Bauer
Research Assistant
Professional background
- Since 2024, research assistant and research associate at the Faculty of Economics, Chair of Innovation Research and Technology Management.
- 2023 interim continuation of the project “Cosmopolitan Saxony” for Freiberger Agenda 21 eV.
- Since 2023, speaker and project coordinator in the service network Education for Sustainable Development in Saxony with the sponsors Freiberger Agenda 21 eV, Nature and Environmental Center Vogtland eV and arche noVa – Initiative for People in Need eV.
- 2022 Research assistant at the Faculty of Economics, Social Skills and Business Games Group.
- 2021 Employee at the State Office for Archaeology of Saxony for excavation work in Chemnitz.
- 2015 – 2021 Student and research assistant at the Faculty of Economics, Social Competencies and Business Games Group.
- 2014 Employee on a fee basis at the State Museum of Archaeology Chemnitz.
Scientific training
- Thesis on Saxon forestry and sustainability history, MA
- Studied European History at Chemnitz University of Technology with a focus on regional economic and environmental history, forestry and climate history, with a particular emphasis on regional and global sustainability history.
- Studied geoecology at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg, without a degree.
Research interests
- Sociocultural transformation and innovations
- Innovations for the future of forests
- Forestry history
- Inter- and transdisciplinary approaches
- Science communication
- Sustainability
- systems-theoretical approaches
Publications
- Historical Forest Concepts in Saxony. The Path to Institutionalized Forestry in Saxony, in: Fiedler, Uwe/Thiele, Stefan/Thoß, Hendrik/Thurmes, Florence (eds.): Between Guild and Factory. On Chemnitz's Industrial History 1763–1799, Chemnitz Art Collections, Schlossberg Museum, Dresden 2024, pp. 54–63
- Wismut – a child of the post-war period, in: Schaarschmidt, Sebastian (ed.): Chemnitz History Calendar, 2019, available at: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:ch1-qucosa2-347997.
- The changes in the Ore Mountains forest caused by mining, in: Schaarschmidt, Sebastian (ed.): Chemnitz History Calendar, 2019, available at: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:ch1-qucosa2-329978.
Courses
- S: Innovation Research, Summer Semester 2025
- Ü: Introduction to the fundamentals of scientific work and the theory of science, summer semester 2025
- Ü: Introduction to the fundamentals of scientific work and the theory of science, winter semester 2024/25
- Ü: Group and project work, summer semester 2024
- Ü: Introduction to the fundamentals of scientific work and the theory of science, summer semester 2024
- Ü: Group and project work, summer semester 2022
- Ü: Introduction to the basics of scientific work, winter semester 2022
- Ü: Group and project work, summer semester 2021
- Ü: Introduction to the basics of scientific work, winter semester 2020/2021
- Ü: Group and project work, summer semester 2020
- Ü: Introduction to the basics of scientific work, winter semester 2019/2020
- Ü: Group and project work, summer semester 2019
- Ü: Introduction to the basics of scientific work, winter semester 2018/2019
- Ü: Group and project work, summer semester 2018
- Ü: Introduction to the basics of scientific work, winter semester 2017/2018
- Ü: Group and project work, summer semester 2017
- Ü: Introduction to the basics of scientific work, winter semester 2016/2017
- Ü: Group and project work, summer semester 2016
- Ü: Introduction to the basics of scientific work, winter semester 2015/2016
Lectures and workshops
- 03/2025: Suggestions for ESD in school lessons, Chemnitz.
- 11/2024: A look behind the scenes: Insights into interdisciplinary research approaches to Saxon forestry history, Olbernhau Museum, part of the UNESCO World Heritage.
- 10/2023: Historical Forest Concepts in Saxony, Colloquium "Between Guild and Factory. On Chemnitz's Industrial History" at the Schlossberg Museum Chemnitz.
