Research Institute for Sustainability Helmholtz Centre Potsdam

Ingo Wolf

Dr. Ingo Wolf

Senior Research Associate

E-Mail

ingo [dot] wolf [at] rifs-potsdam [dot] de

Since 2019, Ingo Wolf has been working as a Senior Research Associate at the RIFS, focusing on the social aspects of the energy and transportation transition. His research primarily addresses attitude and acceptance studies, social sustainability, and political participation. As part of the second funding phase of the Kopernicus project "Ariadne - Evidence-Based Assessment for the Design of the German Energy Transition," he explores issues related to the perceived fairness of climate protection measures. He also oversees the evaluation research for the "Science Platform Sustainability 2030 (wpn2030)" project. Additionally, he has been heading the Social Sustainability Barometer since 2019. Prior to joining RIFS, Ingo Wolf worked at the Freie Universität of Berlin, the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, and the Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development.

  • 2022 Doctorate (Dr. phil.), Institut Futur, Freie Universität Berlin
  • 2017 - 2018: Head of Futures Mobility Lab at the Institute for Urban Future, Potsdam University of Applied Sciences
  • 2015 - 2017: Head of third-party funded project on the acceptance of sustainable mobility innovations at the Institut Futur,Freie Universität Berlin
  • 2015 - 2017: Member of the scientific advisory board of the Baden-Württemberg Foundation's project on sustainable mobility
  • 2014 - 2017: Research Fellow at the Institute for Urban Future, Potsdam University of Applied Sciences
  • 2013 - 2015: Research Fellow at the Futur Institute, Freie Universität Berlin
  • 2013 - 2014: Member of the expert committee of the Daimler and Benz Foundation's Autonomous Driving Project
  • 2010 - 2013: Research Fellow and coordinator of third-party funded project on the acceptance of e-mobility at the Institut Futur, Freie Universität Berlin
  • 2010 - 2010: Freelancer, Deutsche Telekom AG, Laboratories, Berlin
  • 2003 - 2010: Psychology studies (diploma) at the Technische Universität Berlin

  • Research on acceptance in the fields of energy and transportation transitions
  • Attitude development and information processing
  • Social dynamics and societal transformation
  • Panel and evaluation research
  • Computational social science

Publications at the RIFS

Publications prior to joining the RIFS

  • Wolf, I. & Schröder, T. (in Begutachtung). The critical role of emotional communication for motivated reasoning.
  • Wolf, I. & Schröder, T. (2019). Connotative meanings of sustainable mobility: A segmentation approach using cultural sentiments. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 126, 259-280. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2019.06.002
  • Schröder, T., Wolf, I., Zöller, N. (2019). Einstellungen zu Mobilitätsinnovationen in Deutschland. Ein Computational-Social-Science-Ansatz. Potsdam: Verlag der Fachhochschule Potsdam.
  • Schröder, T. & Wolf, I. (2018). Psychologische Aspekte nachhaltiger Mobilität: Struktur und Dynamik von Einstellungen zu Mobilitätsinnovationen. In E. Bamberg & C. T. Schmitt (Eds.), Psychologie und Nachhaltigkeit. Berlin: Springer
  • Wolf, I., Röhr, V. & Schröder, T. (2017). Election data can inform simulations of innovation perception. In Proceedings der Social Simulation Conference (SSC 2017). Dublin, Irland.
  • Zöller, N., Wolf, I., & Schröder, T. (2017). Political ideology and affective attitudes towards mobility innovation: Comparing survey responses and Twitter data. 3rd Annual International Conference on Computational Social Science. Köln. Deutschland.
  • Schröder, T., & Wolf, I. (2017). Modeling multi-level mechanisms of environmental attitudes and behaviours: The example of car sharing in Berlin. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 52, 136-148.
  • Wolf, I. (2016): The interaction between humans and autonomous agents. In Maurer, M., Gerdes, C., Lenz B., Winner H. (Eds.): Autonomous Driving. Technical, legal and social aspects. Springer Vieweg. S. 103- 124.
  • Fraedrich, E., Cyganski, R., Wolf, I., Lenz, B. (2016) User perspectives on autonomous driving. In: Arbeitsberichte 187. Geographisches Institut, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin
  • Wolf, I., Zöller, N., & Schröder, T. (2016). Quantifying persuasion: Experimental grounding of attitude-change simulations. In Proceedings der Social Simulation Conference (SSC 2016). Rom. Italien.
  • Wolf, I., Schroeder, T., Neumann, J., & de Haan, G. (2015): Changing minds about electric cars: An empirically grounded agent-based modeling approach. Technological Forecasting & Social Change, 94, 269-285.
  • Wolf, I., Gortana F., Herrmann, I., Thiele, P., Heidmann, F., & Schröder T. (2015). Drag-and-drop cognition: Graphical User Interface for cognitive-affective models in multi-agent systems. 2nd GESIS Winter Symposium on Computational Social Science , Köln: GESIS -Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
  • Wolf, I. & de Haan, G. (2013). Der simulierte Kunde - Computerbasierte Marktanalyse am Beispiel von Elektromobilität. In: Gausemeier, J. (Hrsg): Vorausschau und Technologieplanung, 9. Symposium für Vorausschau und Technologieplanung. Heinz Nixdorf Institut, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Band 318
  • Antons, J.-N., Schleicher, R., Wolf, I., Blankertz, B., Porbadnigk, A.K., Möller, S., Curio, G. (2010). Neural correlates of speech degradation - Subjective ratings and brain activation in case of signal-correlated noise. 3. International Workshop on Perceptual Quality of Systems (PQS 2010), Dresden: Universität Dresden.
  • Wolf, I., Dziobek, I., Heekeren, H.R. (2010). Neural correlates of social cognition in naturalistic settings: a modelfree analysis approach. Neuroimage. 49, 894-904.
  • Bahnemann, M., Dziobek, I., Prehn, K., Wolf, I., & Heekeren, H. R. (2009). Sociotopy in the temporoparietal cortex: Common versus distinct processes. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 5(1), 48-58.