Keynote Speakers

Prof. Mario Giampietro, Italy

Autonomous University of Barcelona

Date & Time: June 3, 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM

Venue: Amphitheater 10, Croix-Rouge Campus, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne

Presentation: A specialist in integrated sustainability assessment, he developed the MuSIASEM methodology, integrating biophysical and socio-economic variables.

Biography :  Mario Giampietro recently retired from his position as ICREA Research Professor at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. Currently, he is associated with the European Centre for Governance in Complexity in Norway. He worked and still works on the integrated assessment of sustainability issues using concepts from complex systems theory. He developed a novel methodology, Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecosystem Metabolism (MuSIASEM), that integrates biophysical and socioeconomic variables across multiple scales, thus establishing a link between the metabolism of socio-economic systems and potential constraints of the natural environment. His recent research is focused on post-normal science, the bioeconomy, science for governance and biosemiotics. He has (co)authored over 150 publications, including six books (see: ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5569-7023).

Prof. Andreas Pyka, Germany

University of Hohenheim

Date & Time: June 4, 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM

Venue: Amphitheater 10, Croix-Rouge Campus, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne

Biography: Biography : Andreas Pyka is Professor for Innovation Economics at the University of Hohenheim, Germany. His research interests include transformation processes towards a sustainable and climate neutral economy, the role of innovation for transformation and the application of new methodologies to overcome the limitations of mainstream economics in the analysis of lung run developments. He is involved in several national and international research projects dealing with the impacts of the bioeconomy, artificial intelligence and robots, and mobility and energy change.

His theoretical background is evolutionary and complexity economics. He graduated with a PhD in economics at the University of Augsburg where he also finished his habilitation in 2004. In the last years he was visiting professor at the Technical University of Delft, the Università degli studi dell'Insubria in Varese and the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Innovation Economics and Management (Revue d'Economie et de Management de l'Innovation) and member of the editorial board of the Journal of Evolutionary Economics.

Andreas Pyka also actively is engaged in scientific associations, he served more than 10 years as editor (elected) of the international Schumpeter Society, he has been President of the Think tank Lisbon Civic Forum and chairman of the Evolutionary Economics Group in Germany and he coordinated the Research Area Innovation and Technological Change of the EAEPE. He is Vice President of the University of Hohenheim since 2012 and coordinator of the Bachelor program in economics at he German Turkish University in Istanbul.