Dr. Florian Roth

Work at ZHAW

Position

Lecturer and Senior Researcher

Focus

• Resilience
• Sustainability
• Corporate Responsibility
• Innovation and Transformation

Teaching

• CAS Corporate Responsibility
• Executive Course Sustainability Communication & Reporting (in German)
• Master in Circular Economy Management
• CAS Crisis Management (in German)
• 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
• ResearchGate

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-5287-6448

Awards

Best Teaching Award
ZHAW SML
12 / 2023

Media presence

• Tagesanzeiger - Efficiently using the potential of volunteers (in German)
• Podcast by Betterplace Lab on "Resilience and civil society" (in German)
• Tageszeitung - Political extremism: when barriers break (in German)
• Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung - Warum der Katastrophenschutz modernisiert werden muss (in German)
• Spiegel Online - The pocket siren (in German)
• Tagesanzeiger - Humans and natural hazards
• Deutschlandfunk - Psychische Immunität- Was uns hilft, die Krise zu überstehen
• Deutschlandfunk - Resilienzforschung: Welche Lehren unsere Gesellschaft aus der Coronakrise zieht

Projects

• How Do Companies Engage in Democracy? / Deputy project leader / ongoing
• Leveraging Leadership for Responsible Research and Innovation in Territories / Project leader / completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

• Malkamäki, H. et al. (2025) 'A snapshot of the ecological contributions of an active coral restoration effort in an Indo-Pacific reef', Thalassas: An International Journal of Marine Sciences, 41(4), p. 255. doi: 10.1007/s41208-025-01018-8.
• Roth, F. et al. (2025) 'Pondering the promises & problems of participatory policy-making : lessons learned from experiences in four European countries', Journal of Deliberative Democracy, 21(1), pp. 1–13. doi: 10.16997/jdd.1602.
• Bidstrup, M. V. et al. (2024) 'The RRI citizen review panel : a public engagement method for supporting responsible territorial policymaking', Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 13(1). doi: 10.1186/s13731-023-00360-6.
• Roth, F. et al. (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. doi: 10.1007/s41125-023-00090-6.
• Eckhard, S. et al. (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. doi: 10.1093/jopart/muaa039.
• Wittmann, F. et al. (2021) 'Governing varieties of mission-oriented innovation policies : a new typology', Science and Public Policy, 48(5), pp. 727–738. doi: 10.1093/scipol/scab044.

Book chapters, peer-reviewed

• Roth, F. and Vögtlin, C. (2026) 'Wirtschaft, wie hältst du es mit der Demokratie? : Unternehmensverantwortung in Zeiten wachsenden Populismus und Extremismus', in Roth, H. (ed.) Keine Zeit für Apathie, keine Zeit zu schweigen! Texte für eine weltoffene Demokratie. Bonn: Dietz, pp. 134–146.
• Wittmann, F. et al. (2025) 'From formulation to implementation : conceptualizing mission-oriented policies as multi-stage translation processes', in Edler, J. et al. (eds) Transformative mission-oriented innovation policies. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 36–52. doi: 10.4337/9781803929521.00009.
• Clemente, M. et al. (2024) '"Ethics drills" : how to train your ethical muscle for the (un)foreseeable', in Stachowicz-Stanusch, A. et al. (eds) Organizational corruption, crime and Covid-19 : upholding integrity and transparency in times of crises. London: Routledge, pp. 202–219. doi: 10.4324/9781003427933-14.
• Monteiro, M., Roth, F. and Shelley-Egan, C. (2023) 'Global systems resilience and pandemic disease : a challenge for S&T governance', in Hennen, L. et al. (eds) Technology Assessment in a Globalized World. Cham: Springer, pp. 203–221. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-10617-0_10.

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Busch, T. and Roth, F. (2025) 'Does CSR make organizations more resilient? Conceptualizing the relationship between CSR and organizational resilience of "woke" football clubs in high-risk, scandal-ridden contexts', in Paper Development Workshop in Organization Studies and Theory, Winterthur, Switzerland, 1-3 October 2025.
• Voegtlin, C., Busch, T. and Roth, F. (2025) 'Pro-democracy corporate sociopolitical activism : investigating the consequences of companies' engagement against the rise of anti-democratic populism in Europe', in 36th Annual Conference of the International Association For Business & Society (IABS), Maastricht, The Netherlands, 4-6 April 2025.
• Busch, T. and Roth, F. (2025) 'Does C$R make organizations more resilient? Conceptualizing the relationship between CSR and organizational resilience of "woke" football clubs', in 36th Annual Conference of the International Association For Business & Society (IABS), Maastricht, The Netherlands, 4-6 April 2025.
• Busch, T. and Roth, F. (2024) 'Does CSR make organizations more resilient? Conceptualizing the relationship between CSR and organizational resilience of "woke" football clubs in high-risk, scandal-ridden contexts', in European Business Ethics Network (EBEN) Research Conference, Lugano, Switzerland, 10-11 October 2024.
• Vögtlin, C., Roth, F. and Busch, T. (2024) 'Corporate political activism and democracy : why should business leaders engage in public debates?', in European Business Ethics Network (EBEN) Research Conference, Lugano, Switzerland, 10-11 October 2024.
• Vögtlin, C. et al. (2024) '"Ethics drills" : how to train your ethical muscle for the (un)foreseeable', in European Business Ethics Network (EBEN) Research Conference, Lugano, Switzerland, 10-11 October 2024.
• Bührer, S. and Roth, F. (2023) 'Development of a responsible monitoring and evaluation tool for the assessment of research projects', in 27th International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators (STI), Leiden, The Netherlands, 27-29 September 2023. International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators. doi: 10.55835/6440fdcc50b7281abb62c847.
• Wittmann, F. et al. (2022) 'Towards a framework for impact assessment for mission-oriented Innovation policies : a formative toolbox approach', in Proceedings of the REvaluation Conference 2021|22. Austrian Platform for Research and Technology Policy Evaluation, pp. 31–42. doi: 10.22163/fteval.2022.540.

Other publications

• Fisch, P. et al. (2025) Tissue engineered elastic cartilage-mimetic auricular grafts for ear reconstruction. bioRxiv. doi: 10.1101/2025.10.27.684810.
• Busch, T., Roth, F. and Clemente, M. (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', in 39th EGOS Colloquium, Cagliari, Italy, 5-9 July 2023.
• Bührer, S. and Roth, F. (2023) Entwicklung eines gestaltungsorientierten Evaluations- und Monitoring-Systems zur Erfassung komplexer Wirkungen. Karlsruhe: Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI. doi: 10.24406/publica-779.
• Walz, R., Bodenheimer, M. and Roth, F. (2022) Zwei Jahre Corona-Pandemie : Lehren für gesellschaftliche Resilienz und die Nachhaltigkeitstransformation. Berlin: Rat für Nachhaltige Entwicklung. Available at: https://www.nachhaltigkeitsrat.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/RNE_Gutachten_gesellschaftliche_Resilienz_und_Nachhaltigkeitstransformation.pdf.
• Wietschel, M. 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. doi: 10.24406/publica-fhg-416821.
• Lindner, R. et al. (2021) Missionsorientierte Innovationspolitik : von der Ambition zur erfolgreichen Umsetzung. Karlsruhe: Fraunhofer-Institut für System- und Innovationsforschung ISI. doi: 10.24406/publica-fhg-301223.
• Roth, F. et al. (2021) Insights into systemic resilience from innovation research. Karlsruhe: Fraunhofer-Institut für System- und Innovationsforschung ISI. doi: 10.24406/publica-fhg-416797.
• Hiermaier, S. et al. (2021) Resilienz : ein Fraunhofer-Konzept für die Anwendung. München: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. doi: 10.24406/publica-fhg-300918.
• Wittmann, F. et al. (2021) A framework for formative evaluation and impact assessment of mission-oriented innovation policies. Karlsruhe: Fraunhofer-Institut für System- und Innovationsforschung ISI. doi: 10.24406/publica-229.
• Wittmann, F. et al. (2021) Second mission analysis report of the scientific support action to the German hightech strategy 2025. Karlsruhe: Fraunhofer-Institut für System- und Innovationsforschung ISI. doi: 10.24406/publica-fhg-301301.
• Wittmann, F. et al. (2021) From mission definition to implementation : conceptualizing mission-oriented policies as a multi-stage translation process. Karlsruhe: Fraunhofer-Institut für System- und Innovationsforschung ISI. doi: 10.24406/publica-fhg-301289.
• Mende, L. et al. (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». Zürich: Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich. doi: 10.3929/ethz-b-000483520.
• Wittmann, F., Roth, F. and Hufnagl, M. (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. doi: 10.24406/publica-fhg-300889.
• Edler, J. et al. (2020) Technologiesouveränität : von der Forderung zum Konzept. Karlsruhe: Fraunhofer-Institut für System- und Innovationsforschung ISI. doi: 10.24406/publica-fhg-300302.
• Wittmann, F. et al. (2020) Developing a typology for mission-oriented innovation policies. Karlsruhe: Fraunhofer-Institut für System- und Innovationsforschung ISI. doi: 10.24406/publica-fhg-300186.
• Roth, F. and Kohler, K. (2020) 'Künstliche Intelligenz verändert auch das Risikomanagement', Sicherheitsforum. Available at: https://www.sicherheitsforum.ch/de/ki-veraendert-auch-das-risikomanagement/.
• Prior, T. and Roth, F. (2019) Volunteerism in disaster management : opportunities, challenges and instruments for improvement. Zurich: Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich. Available at: https://css.ethz.ch/en/publications/risk-and-resilience-reports/details.html?id=/v/o/l/u/volunteerism_in_disaster_management_oppo.
• Maduz, L. et al. (2019) Individual disaster preparedness : explaining disaster-related information-seeking and preparedness behaviour in Switzerland. Zurich: Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich. Available at: 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.
• Roth, F. (2018) 'Die gefährlichsten Risiken erkennen wir oft zu spät', Sicherheitsforum, 2018(15), pp. 10–13. Available at: 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, F. et al. (2018) Social vulnerability in affluent contexts : an in-depth analysis of social vulnerability in Zürich. Zurich: Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich. Available at: https://css.ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/gess/cis/center-for-securities-studies/pdfs/RR-Report-2018-SocialVulnerability.pdf.

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

• Voegtlin, C. et al. (2025) 'Pro-democracy corporate activism : exploring business's role in safeguarding democratic values', in Academy of Management Proceedings. Academy of Management. doi: 10.5465/amproc.2025.10782symposium.
• Roth, F. and Scharte, B. (2025) 'Shaping transformation in times of uncertainty : approaches for strengthening the resilience of innovation strategies', in European Forum for Studies of Policies for Research and Innovation (Eu-SPRI), Dortmund, Germany, 11 - 13 June 2025.

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

• 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 (2019). Utility of Virtual Operation Support Teams: An International Survey, Australian Journal of Emergency Management, 34, 2, 53-59.
• Roth, Florian; Käser, Marco; Lenz, Alexa; Eckhard, Steffen; Wiese, Lorenz; Seibel, Wolfgang (2019). Wege zur Einbindung von Freiwilligen - Lehren aus der sogenannten Flüchtlingskrise, Behördenspiegel, 04.12.2019,
• Roth, Florian; Prior, Tim; Käser, Marco (2019). Natural Hazards Governance in Western Europe, in: Benouar, Djillali (ed.) Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of Hazard Science
• Maduz, Linda; Roth, Florian (2017). Städtische Sicherheit in einer sich wandelnden Risikolandschaft, in: Nünlist, Christian (ed.) Bulletin zur Schweizer Sicherheitspolitik 2017, ETH Zürich.,139-144 (in German)
• 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 (2015) Neue Wege zur Alarmierung der Bevölkerung im Katastrophenfall, in: Nünlist, Christian (ed.) Bulletin zur Schweizer Sicherheitspolitik 2015, ETH Zürich, 113-118 (in German)
• 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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