Frank Geels#
| Membership Number: | 3978 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL THOUGHT |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://http://www.mbs.ac.uk/research/people/profiles/frank.geels |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012 - present: Professor of System Innovation and Sustainability, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester (UK)
- 2008 - 2012: Professor of Innovation and Sustainability, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex (UK)
- 2007 - 2008: Professor of Socio-technical Change and Sustainability (0.5 fte), Brunel Business School,Brunel University, London, UK
- 2004 - 2008: Senior researcher, Eindhoven University of Technology
- 2002 - 2004: Post-doctoral researcher, Eindhoven University of Technology
Fields of Scholarship
- Innovation studies
- Sociology of technology
- Evolutionary economics
- Co-evolution of technology and society
- Socio-technical transitions to sustainability
- Grand societal challenges (including climate change)
- Strategic reorientation of existing industries
- Transport (cars, aviation, shipping)
- Energy (coal, electricity, renewables, district heating)
- Agro-food (beef, milk, bread)
Honours and Awards
- 2002 Forbes-price from Foundation for the History of Technology (best publication of junior scholar in history and sociology of technology)
- 2008-2012 ERC Grant on 'Destabilisation of sociotechnical regimes as the key to transitions towards sustainability'
- 2008 Research Publication Award from the International Association for the Management of Technology awarded to the top 50 authors of technology and innovation management, based on publications over previous 5 years)
- 2013 Winner of Best Paper Award from WWWforEurope (a European Commisson project on ‘welfare, wealth and work’)
- 2013 Research Publication Award from the International Association for the Management of Technology
- 2014 Selected in Thomson Reuters list of Highly Cited Researchers
- 2014 Identified by Thomson Reuters as one The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds 2014
