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Christian Pohl, with a PhD in environmental sciences and a habilitation degree from the University of Bern, is Co-Director of the Transdisciplinarity Lab (TdLab) of the Department of Environmental Systems Science at ETH Zurich (www.tdlab.usys.ethz.ch). TdLab is in charge of the department’s transdisciplinary case-study teaching, runs transdisciplinary projects and develops theories and methods of transdisciplinary research. Christian Pohl studied environmental science, followed by a doctoral thesis on uncertainty in environmental assessments.

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    See https://scholar.google.ch/citations?user=E1_0iCoAAAAJ&hl=de for a list of Pohl’s publications.

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    See What is Progress in Transdisciplinary Research (2011), where Pohl discusses how collaboration and integration in transdisciplinary research can be understood through thought styles.

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  • Hadorn, G. H., Hoffman-Riem, H., Biber-Klemm, S., Grossenbacher-Mansuy, W., Joye, D., Pohl, C., et al. (Eds.). (2008). Handbook of transdisciplinary research. Cham: Springer.

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  • Pohl, C. (2011). What is progress in transdisciplinary research? Futures, 37(10), 1159–1178.

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  • Pohl, C., & Hirsch Hadorn, G. (2007). Principles for designing transdisciplinary research. Munich: Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences.

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Gibbs, P., Beavis, A. (2020). Christian Pohl. In: Contemporary Thinking on Transdisciplinary Knowledge. SpringerBriefs in Education(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39785-2_10

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