Dr. Michael P. Schlaile is the Principal Investigator of the CULEST project ("The Cultural Evolution of Sustainability Transitions") at the Institute of Social Sciences in Agriculture (430) as well as the Institute of Education, Labor and Society (560), University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany. He is also a Guest Researcher at the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) in Müncheberg, Germany, Research Fellow at the Hochschule für Gesellschaftsgestaltung (HfGG) in Koblenz, Germany, and a member of the Flying Faculty of the Turkish-German University in Istanbul, Türkiye. His research revolves around the three strongly interrelated research areas of “Complexity & Evolution”, “Innovation & Transformation”, and “Sustainability & Responsibility”. For more information, please visit https://www.michael-schlaile.de/en/