Dr. rer. pol. Kira Schumacher

Research interests

  • Sustainable mobility, in particular user behaviour
  • Acceptance of renewable energies
  • Sustainable biomass value chains
  • Participative decision support

Projects

Teaching

  • Supervision of final theses on request or see posted final theses offers
  • 2014-2018: Tutor support for lecture "BWL B”
  • Since 2015: Unit "Stakeholder Management" as part of the lecture "Project Management"
  • 2013-2016: Unit "Marketing" as part of the lecture " Industrielle Betriebswirtschaftslehre
  • Seminar (winter term 2018/19): Methodenbootcamp IIP
  • Seminar (summer term 2016): Projektmanagement – Eine methodisch-didaktische Aufarbeitung
  • Seminar (winter term 2014/15): Länderübergreifende Studie zur gesellschaftlichen Akzeptanz von Bioenergie

 

Publications


Indikatoren zur Bewertung zukünftiger urbaner Mobilitätsszenarien
Rüb, T.; Baumgartner, N.; Schumacher, K.
2021. Städtebauliche und sozioökonomische Implikationen neuer Mobilitätsformen. Beiträge aus: Profilregion Mobilitätssysteme Karlsruhe. Hrsg.: J. Schippl, U. Burghard, N. Baumgartner, B. Engel, M. Kagerbauer, E. Szimba, 77–105, KIT Scientific Publishing
Topic Modeling Uncovers Shifts in Media Framing of the German Renewable Energy Act
Dehler-Holland, J.; Schumacher, K.; Fichtner, W.
2021. Patterns, 2, 100169. doi:10.1016/j.patter.2020.100169
Modelling the impact of biomass-based value chains on local feedstock prices
Zimmer, T.; Schumacher, K.; Glöser-Chahoud, S.; Schultmann, F.
2018, March 20. Gemeinsamer Workshop der Arbeitsgruppen "OR im Umweltschutz" und "Supply Chain Management" der Gesellschaft für Operations Research (GOR) e.V. und des Netzwerks Industrial Ecology (2018), Ulm, Germany, March 20–21, 2018
Roadmap für eine nachhaltige Biomassenutzung in der Oberrheinregion. Roadmap Utilisation durable de la biomasse dans la Région du Rhin supérieur
Fritz, A.; Koch, B.; Bosansky, M.; Pallares, C.; Riviere, E.; Hu, Y.; Kuhn, N.; Bidart, C.; Fichtner, W.; Fröhling, M.; McKenna, R.; Müller, A.-K.; Rudi, A.; Schultmann, F.; Schumacher, K.; Vuilleumier, S.; Barbier, R.; Daniel, F.-J.; Bühler, S.; Hugi, C.; Steiger, O.; Knapp, M.; Meyer, R.; Pehle, A.; Stelzer, V.; Elsaesser, D.; Schulz, R.; Brilhac, J.-F.; Schönnenbeck, C.; Valente, M.; Roger, A.-C.; Duplay, J.; Quaranta, G.; Schäfer, G.; Aguejdad, R.; Blond, N.; Ponche, J.-L.; Selmi, W.; Serradj, A.; Skupinski, G.; Stark, J.; Weber, C.
2015. Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Assessment of Biogas Supply Chains from a Social Acceptance Point of View
Schumacher, K.; Panitz, F.; Breun, P.; Schultmann, F.
2016. Why supplier simultaneous upgrading of productivity and OHS is limited in buyer-driven and fragmented global value chains? Ed.: J.V. Brambini-Pedersen 3rd International EurOMA Sustainable Operations and Supply Chains Forum, Lancaster, UK, April 11. - 12. 2016
Scenarios for Potential Biomass Futures in the Tri-National Upper Rhine Region
Knapp, M.; Schumacher, K.; Weinberger, N.
2014. Technology Assessment and Policy Areas of Great Transitions. Proceedings from the PACITA 2013 Conference in Prague, 13 – 15 March, Prague, Czech Republic. Ed.: T. Michalek, 237–242, Technology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (ASCR)

Presentations

  • Schumacher, K., Krones, F., McKenna, R., Schultmann, F. (2017): Social acceptance of renewable energies: a comparative, survey-based analysis in Germany, France, and Switzerland. 1st International Conference on Energy Research and Social Science, 02.-05. April 2017, Melia Sitges, Spain.

  • Schumacher K.; Fröhling, M.; Schultmann F. (2016): A Comparative Study on Local Acceptance of Existing Biogas Plants in the Trinational Upper Rhine Region. 6th International Conference on Engineering for Waste and Biomass Valorization (WasteEng2016), 23.-26. Mai 2016, Albi, Frankreich.

  • Schumacher K.; Panitz F.; Breun P.; Schultmann F. (2016): Assessment of Biogas Supply Chains from a Social Acceptance Point of View. European Operations Management Association (EurOMA Forum 2016), 11.-12. April 2016, Lancaster, UK.

  • Schumacher K.; Magnus, F; Schultmann F. (2015): Social acceptance of biomass use. Latin American Congress on Biorefineries, Workshop Sustainable Biomass Use in Chile, 25. November 2015, Concepción, Chile.

  • Schumacher K.; Magnus, F; Schultmann F. (2015): Akzeptanz von Biogasanlagen im Trinationalen Vergleich. OUI Biomasse Abschlusskonferenz, 26. Juni 2015, Karlsruhe, Deutschland.

Professional career

Since 03/2019 Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Karlsruhe

Managing Director of the French-German Institute for Environmental Research (DFIU)

01/2013 - 02/2019

Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Karlsruhe
Research Assistant
Chair of Business Administration, Production and Operations Management

08/2011 – 12/2012 BASF, Ludwigshafen
Investor Relations Manager - Socially Responsible Investing

Supervision of sustainability-oriented investors, roadshows,
Association work for the German Investor Relations Association (DIRK)

12/2010 - 07/2011 BASF, Ludwigshafen
Sustainability Manager - Key Account Value Chain

Project management in the sustainability department and part of integration team (Cognis acquisition), establishment of sustainability standards in the value chain