Stefan Schäfer investigates the political, ethical, and epistemological dimensions of new planetary sciences and technologies, with focal interests in questions of societal uptake and reception, responsible research, and time and future making. A research group leader at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, he teaches at Humboldt University Berlin and maintains fellowships with the Program on Science, Technology and Society at Harvard University and the University of Oxford’s Institute for Science, Innovation and Society. Stefan studied Political Science, History and Philosophy at the University of Tübingen and at Cornell University and holds a PhD in International Relations from Freie Universität Berlin.