Dr Siegfried Behrendt

The person

He took his well-deserved retirement on 1 August 2025. In his role as Senior Fellow, he will remain associated with the Institute with his invaluable knowledge and will thus continue to contribute to the scientific dialogue and success of our Institute.

He worked at the IZT from 1990 to 2025. Initially as project manager and coordinator of the "Ecological Economy" working group, Dr Behrendt took over the management of the "Technology and Innovation" cluster together with Britta Oertel in 2014 and became Head of Research for Resources, Economies and Resilience in 2019.

He completed his doctorate in 2009 at the Faculty of Computer Science, Economics and Law at the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg.

He has been a lecturer at the Berlin School of Economics and Law since 2000 and at the Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin since 2001.

In 1987, he was a staff member at the Science Centre Berlin. Before that, he studied political science and biology at the Free University of Berlin.

Expertise

• Technology design
• Future markets
• Resources
• Integrated roadmaps
• Future studies and foresight projects