Dec 15, 2020
Nick Pruditsch successfully defends his doctoral thesis
Nick Pruditsch during the defense
"Limited time and politics. Conceptualization and analysis of institutions promoting long-term sustainability in the context of directing energy policy" is the title of the dissertation that Nick Pruditsch, a former scholarship holder of the 2nd Boysen-TU Dresden Research Training Group, defended with great success on December 15, 2020, with magna cum laude. The reviewers of the political science work included Professors Werner J. Patzelt and Prof. Dominik Möst from the TU Dresden and Prof. Jacob Lempp from the Rhein-Waal University of Applied Sciences. During his disputation, Nick Pruditsch underlined the importance of the interdisciplinarity that he experienced in the Research Training Group in response to a question from his doctoral supervisor, Prof. Patzelt. According to Mr. Pruditsch, his engineering colleagues "listened carefully" and are extremely problem-solving oriented, but they need to think outside the box more. He specifically went into his experiences in the technological impact assessment course, which he designed together with the engineer Alexander Sakowski (also 2nd RTG), as representing a "consolidation of interdisciplinary research". We congratulate Dr. Nick Pruditsch on his great performance and wish him all the best for the future!