Function and Responsibilities:

Research Group Leader “Digitalization and Sustainability Transformations”

Research Institute for Sustainability (RIFS) - Helmholtz Centre Potsdam

Professorship "Sustainability in digitalisation"

University of Potsdam

Research Interests:

exploring the social and environmental effects of digitalisation on industrial sustainability, global value chains and international cooperation

Education:

Grischa Beier studied mechanical engineering at Technical University of Ilmenau (Germany), with semesters abroad in Russia (ITMO, St. Petersburg) and Brazil (UFSC, Florianopolis). In 2006 he joined Fraunhofer IPK as a research assistant, where he worked on a number of research and industry projects in the area of Virtual Product Creation. He obtained his PhD in engineering from TU Berlin in January 2014, with a distinction for his work on the usage of traceability data in systems engineering. Grischa Beier joined RIFS in September 2014.