Dr. Florian Roth

Work at ZHAW

Position

Lecturer and Senior Researcher

Focus

• Resilience
• Sustainability
• Corporate Responsibility
• Innovation and Transformation

Teaching

• CAS Corporate Responsibility
• Master in Circular Economy Management
• Bachelor in International Management

Experience

• Project Manager
  Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI, Karlsruhe
  09 / 2019 - 08 / 2022
• Senior Researcher
  ETH Zürich
  09 / 2011 - 08 / 2020
• Research Associate
  University of Konstanz
  09 / 2008 - 08 / 2011

Education and Continuing education

Education

• PhD / Political Science
  University of Konstanz
  10 / 2008 - 01 / 2015
• M.A. / Political Science, Arts and Media, History
  University of Konstanz
  10 / 2002 - 06 / 2008

Continuing Education

CAS Higher and Professional Education
Center for Innovative Didactics
01 / 2024

Network

Membership of networks

• LinkedIn
• Twitter / X
• ResearchGate

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-5287-6448

Awards

Best Teaching Award
ZHAW SML
12 / 2023

Media presence

Podcast by Betterplace Lab on "Resilience and civil society" (in German)

Projects

• RRI-Leaders: Leveraging Leadership For Responsible Research and Innovation in Territories / Project leader / abgeschlossen

Publications

• Bidstrup, Maya Vestergaard; Gabova, Snezhina; Kilintzis, Pavlos; Samara, Elpida; Kouskoura, Amalia; Bakouros, Yiannis; Roth, Florian,

  2024.

  The RRI citizen review panel : a public engagement method for supporting responsible territorial policymaking.

  Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

  13(1).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13731-023-00360-6

• Roth, Florian; Kaluza, Benjamin; Pfeffer, Katharina; Rümelin, Esther; Kirchner, Joel; Overmeyer, Maike; Neisser, Florian; Jackwerth-Rice, Thomas; Kilicaslan, Aleyna; Sautter, Johannes,

  2023.

  Innovation in times of crisis : how civil protection organizations in europe coped and adapted during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  European Journal for Security Research.

  7(2), pp. 139-161.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41125-023-00090-6

• Wittmann, Florian; Hufnagl, Miriam; Lindner, Ralf; Roth, Florian; Edler, Jakob,

  2021.

  Governing varieties of mission-oriented innovation policies : a new typology.

  Science and Public Policy.

  48(5), pp. 727-738.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scab044

• Eckhard, Steffen; Lenz, Alexa; Seibel, Wolfgang; Roth, Florian; Fatke, Matthias,

  2021.

  Latent hybridity in administrative crisis management : the German refugee crisis of 2015/16.

  Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.

  31(2), pp. 416-433.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/jopart/muaa039

• Monteiro, Marko; Roth, Florian; Shelley-Egan, Clare,

  2023.

  Global systems resilience and pandemic disease : a challenge for S&T governance

  .

  In:

  Hennen, Leonard; Hahn, Julia; Ladikas, Miltos; Lindner, Ralf; Peissl, Walter; van Est, Rinie, eds.,

  Technology Assessment in a Globalized World.

  Cham:

  Springer.

  pp. 203-221.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10617-0_10

• Wittmann, Florian; Roth, Florian; Hufnagl, Miriam; Lindner, Ralf; Yorulmaz, Merve,

  2022.

  Towards a framework for impact assessment for mission-oriented Innovation policies : a formative toolbox approach [paper].

  In:

  Proceedings of the REvaluation Conference 2021|22.

  Revaluation Conference 2021/22, Vienna, Austria, 5-6 May 2022.

  Austrian Platform for Research and Technology Policy Evaluation.

  pp. 31-42.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.22163/fteval.2022.540

• Busch, Thorsten; Roth, Florian; Clemente, Marco,

  2023.

  Why do football clubs commit to CSR, and how does that commitment impact their organizational resilience? : the case of “progressive” football clubs in Germany, Switzerland and the UK [paper].

  In:

  39th EGOS Colloquium, Cagliari, Italy, 5-9 July 2023.

• Bührer, Susanne; Roth, Florian,

  2023.

  Entwicklung eines gestaltungsorientierten Evaluations- und Monitoring-Systems zur Erfassung komplexer Wirkungen.

  Fraunhofer ISI Discussion Papers Innovation Systems and Policy Analysis

  ; 78.

  Karlsruhe:

  Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.24406/publica-779

• Wietschel, Martin; Roth, Florian; Garcia, Joshua Fragoso; Herbst, Andrea; Kleinschmitt, Christoph; Wittmann, Florian; et al.,

  2022.

  Krieg in der Ukraine : Auswirkungen auf die europäische und deutsche Importstrategie von Wasserstoff und Syntheseprodukten.

  Karlsruhe:

  Fraunhofer-Institut für System- und Innovationsforschung ISI.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.24406/publica-fhg-416821

• Walz, Rainer; Bodenheimer, Miriam; Roth, Florian,

  2022.

  Zwei Jahre Corona-Pandemie : Lehren für gesellschaftliche Resilienz und die Nachhaltigkeitstransformation.

  Berlin:

  Rat für Nachhaltige Entwicklung.

  Available from: https://www.nachhaltigkeitsrat.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/RNE_Gutachten_gesellschaftliche_Resilienz_und_Nachhaltigkeitstransformation.pdf

• Wittmann, Florian; Roth, Florian; Hufnagl, Miriam; Yorulmaz, Merve; Lindner, Ralf,

  2021.

  Second mission analysis report of the scientific support action to the German hightech strategy 2025.

  Karlsruhe:

  Fraunhofer-Institut für System- und Innovationsforschung ISI.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.24406/publica-fhg-301301

• Wittmann, Florian; Hufnagl, Miriam; Roth, Florian; Yorulmaz, Merve; Lindner, Ralf,

  2021.

  From mission definition to implementation : conceptualizing mission-oriented policies as a multi-stage translation process.

  Fraunhofer ISI Discussion Papers Innovation Systems and Policy Analysis

  ; 71.

  Karlsruhe:

  Fraunhofer-Institut für System- und Innovationsforschung ISI.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.24406/publica-fhg-301289

• Mende, Lisa; Scharte, Benjamin; Wiese, Lorenz; Lenz, Alexa; Roth, Florian; Seibel, Wolfgang; Eckhard, Steffen,

  2021.

  Freiwillige in der Krise erfolgreich(er) einbinden: Handlungsempfehlungen für die lokale Verwaltung : Erkenntnisse aus dem Forschungsprojekt «HybOrg – Entstehung und gesellschaftliche Wirkung hybrider Organisationen im lokalen Krisenmanagement».

  HybOrg Praxispapier

  .

  Zürich:

  Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000483520

• Wittmann, Florian; Hufnagl, Miriam; Roth, Florian; Lindner, Ralf; Kroll, Henning,

  2021.

  A framework for formative evaluation and impact assessment of mission-oriented innovation policies.

  Karlsruhe:

  Fraunhofer-Institut für System- und Innovationsforschung ISI.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.24406/publica-229

• Roth, Florian; Warnke, Philine; Niessen, Pia; Edler, Jakob,

  2021.

  Insights into systemic resilience from innovation research.

  Karlsruhe:

  Fraunhofer-Institut für System- und Innovationsforschung ISI.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.24406/publica-fhg-416797

• Lindner, Ralf; Edler, Jakob; Hufnagl, Miriam; Kimpeler, Simone; Kroll, Henning; Roth, Florian; Wittmann, Florian; Yorulmaz, Merve,

  2021.

  Missionsorientierte Innovationspolitik : von der Ambition zur erfolgreichen Umsetzung.

  Karlsruhe:

  Fraunhofer-Institut für System- und Innovationsforschung ISI.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.24406/publica-fhg-301223

• Hiermaier, Stefan; Hiller, Daniel; Edler, Jakob; Roth, Florian; Arlinghaus, Julia; Clausen, Uwe,

  2021.

  Resilienz : ein Fraunhofer-Konzept für die Anwendung.

  München:

  Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.24406/publica-fhg-300918

• Edler, Jakob; Blind, Knut; Frietsch, Rainer; Kimpeler, Simone; Kroll, Henning; Lerch, Christian; Reiss, Thomas; Roth, Florian; Schubert, Torben; Schuler, Johanna; Walz, Rainer,

  2020.

  Technologiesouveränität : von der Forderung zum Konzept.

  Karlsruhe:

  Fraunhofer-Institut für System- und Innovationsforschung ISI.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.24406/publica-fhg-300302

• Wittmann, Florian; Hufgnagl, Miriam; Lindner, Ralf; Roth, Florian; Edler, Jakob,

  2020.

  Developing a typology for mission-oriented innovation policies.

  Fraunhofer ISI Discussion Papers Innovation Systems and Policy Analysis

  ; 64.

  Karlsruhe:

  Fraunhofer-Institut für System- und Innovationsforschung ISI.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.24406/publica-fhg-300186

• Roth, Florian; Kohler, Kevin,

  2020.

  Künstliche Intelligenz verändert auch das Risikomanagement.

  Sicherheitsforum.

  Available from: https://www.sicherheitsforum.ch/de/ki-veraendert-auch-das-risikomanagement/

• Wittmann, Florian; Roth, Florian; Hufnagl, Miriam,

  2020.

  First mission analysis report of the scientific support action to the German hightech strategy 2025 : positioning the missions in the socio-technical system.

  Fraunhofer-Institut für System- und Innovationsforschung ISI.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.24406/publica-fhg-300889

• Maduz, Linda; Prior, Tim; Roth, Florian; Käser, Marco,

  2019.

  Individual disaster preparedness : explaining disaster-related information-seeking and preparedness behaviour in Switzerland.

  Zurich:

  Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich.

  Available from: https://css.ethz.ch/content/specialinterest/gess/cis/center-for-securities-studies/en/publications/risk-and-resilience-reports/details.html?id=/i/n/d/i/individual_disaster_preparedness_explain

• Prior, Tim; Roth, Florian,

  2019.

  Volunteerism in disaster management : opportunities, challenges and instruments for improvement.

  Zurich:

  Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich.

  Available from: https://css.ethz.ch/en/publications/risk-and-resilience-reports/details.html?id=/v/o/l/u/volunteerism_in_disaster_management_oppo

• Roth, Florian,

  2018.

  Die gefährlichsten Risiken erkennen wir oft zu spät.

  Sicherheitsforum.

  2018(15), pp. 10-13.

  Available from: https://css.ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/gess/cis/center-for-securities-studies/pdfs/Roth%202018%20Die%20gef%C3%A4hrlichsten%20Risiken%20erkennen%20wir%20oft%20erst%20zu%20sp%C3%A4t.pdf

• Roth, Florian; Prior, Tim; Maduz, Linda; Wolf, Anna,

  2018.

  Social vulnerability in affluent contexts : an in-depth analysis of social vulnerability in Zürich.

  Zurich:

  Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich.

  Available from: https://css.ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/gess/cis/center-for-securities-studies/pdfs/RR-Report-2018-SocialVulnerability.pdf

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

• Bidstrup, Maya; Gabova, Snezhina; Kilintzis, Pavlos; Samana, Elpida; Kouskoura, Amalia; Bakouros, Yiannis; Roth, Florian (2024). The RRI Citizen Review Panel: a public engagement method for supporting responsible territorial policymaking. Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 13 (2)
• Roth, Florian; Kaluza, Benjamin: Pfeffer, Katharina; Rümelin, Esther; Kirchner, Joel; Overmeyer, Maike; Neisser, Florian; Jackwerth-Rice, Thomas; Kilicaslan, Aleyna; Sautter, Johannes (2023). Innovation in Times of Crisis: How Civil Protection Organizations in Europe Coped and Adapted During the COVID‑19 Pandemic, European Journal for Security Research, 7, 139-161.
• Monteiro, Marko; Roth, Florian; Shelley-Egan, Clare (2023). Global Systems Resilience and Pandemic Disease. A Challenge for S&T Governance, in: Hennen, Leonard, Hahn, Julia; Ladikas, Miltos; Lindner, Ralf; Peissl, Walter; van Est, Rinie (eds.) Technology Assessment in a Globalized World. Facing the Challenges of Transnational Technology Governance, Springer, 203-221.
• Wittmann, Florian; Roth, Florian; Hufnagl, Miriam; Lindner, Ralf; Yorulmaz, Merve (2022). Towards a framework for impact assessment for Mission-oriented Innovation Policies. A formative toolbox approach, fteval Journal for Research and Technology Policy Evaluation. 53, 31-42
• Wittmann, Florian; Hufnagl, Miriam; Lindner, Ralf; Roth, Florian; Edler, Jakob (2021). Governing varieties of mission-oriented innovation policies: A new typology. Science and Public Policy, online
• Eriksen, Christine; Simon, Gregory L.; Roth, Florian; Lakhina, Shefali Juneja; Wisner, Ben; Adler, Carolina; Thomalla, Frank; Scolobig, Anna; Brady, Kate; Bründl, Michael; Neisser, Florian; Grenfell; Maree; Maduz, Linda & Prior, Timothy (2020) Rethinking the interplay between affluence and vulnerability to aid climate change adaptive capacity. Climatic Change, 162, 25-39
• Eckhard, Steffen; Lenz, Alexa; Seibel, Wolfgang; Roth, Florian & Fatke, Matthias (2020). Latent Hybridity in Administrative Crisis Management: The German Refugee Crisis of 2015/16. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 1-18
• Roth, Florian; Prior, Tim; Käser, Marco (2019). Natural Hazards Governance in Western Europe, in: Benouar, Djillali (ed.) Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of Hazard Science
• Roth, Florian; Eriksen, Christine; Prior, Tim (2017). Understanding the Root Causes of Natural Disasters, The Conversation
• Roth, Florian; Herzog, Michel (2016). Strategische Krisenfrüherkennung. Instrumente, Möglichkeiten und Grenzen, Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik, 9 (2), 201-211
• Roth, Florian; Prior, Tim (2014). The Boundaries of Building Societal Resilience, Behemoth, 7 (2), 91-111
• Prior, Tim; Roth, Florian (2013). Disaster, Resilience and Security in Global Cities, Journal of Strategic Security, 6 (2), 59-69

Other publications

Bas, Enric, Barker, Kezia, Claus, Carsten; McHugh, Louise; Roth, Florian; Könnölä, Totti (2024). Futures of civic resilience in Europe, 2040 – Scenarios and policy implications, European Union Directorate-General for Research and Innovation

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