Danny Otto

Danny Otto is a researcher at the Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology within the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ in Leipzig, Germany. His work focuses on societal requirements for carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies, sustainability transformations, and climate resilience strategies.

• Current projects: RamonCO (risk assessment for CO2 storage), BioNET (biobased negative emission technologies), KAHR (flood resilience research), and Carbon Cascadia (CDR online game development)
• Recent publications examine CCS risk governance, social infrastructure post-disasters, and interdisciplinary organization in international research projects

Research Interests center on:

• Public perception of CO2 removal technologies
• Trust research methodology
• Climate policy implementation factors
• Scientific knowledge production dynamics
• Empirical social science methods

Scientific Achievements:

• Recipient of the Peter A. Berger Award for outstanding dissertation (2019)
• ISA travel grant for international research collaboration (2016)

Teaching Experience includes:

• Master seminars on sustainability transformations (Jena, 2023)
• Bachelor courses on postcolonial theory and social inequality (Bochum, 2019)