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Vanessa Schweizer has a fundamental training in Physics, with minors in Mathematics, Philosophy, and Speech Communication. She holds a Master's in Environmental Studies and a PhD in Engineering Public Policy. Her work blends interdisciplinary interests focused on scenarios and common tools for collective decision-making across various contexts. This includes processes for articulating aspirations and values, exercising foresight, confronting uncertainties and risks, and negotiating trade-offs. Vanessa's research targets problems in cross-disciplinary knowledge integration, particularly in designing scenarios that capture the human dimensions of large-scale environmental change. Her ongoing projects address long-term decision-making and forecasting of discontinuities, which are developments deemed 'game changing' compared to the status quo. Recent research has investigated the influences of occupational, interpersonal, and cultural conflicts on climate change attitudes. In addition to her research, Vanessa teaches several courses including INTEG 121: Design Problem Solving, INTEG 251: Creative Thinking, INTEG 452: Real World Problem Solving, and INTEG 475: Special Topics: Evidence-Based Decision Making.
Includes fields like Clinical, Cognitive, Developmental, and Industrial/Organizational Psychology.