Wolfgang Baaske is chairman, director and chief executive of STUDIA, since 2002. He provides a basis for decision making to actors in politics and the economy, and supports his clients and partners by developing new and sustainable solutions to their problems, enlarging the range of success factors, and assuring his advices by scientific methods. Baaske operates with models for societal development that include economic-technical as well as soft variables, like motivation, acceptance, knowledge, and cultural values. He therefore applies methods of product development (QFD), multivariate robust statistics, qualitative observation and evaluation. As a research assistant, Baaske learnt societal systems analysis from Johann Millendorfer (1983-1991) in Laxenburg / Vienna.
Baaske studied Mathematics and Physics at the Albertus Magnus University in Cologne, and graduated as Dipl.-Math. with distinction. He wrote his thesis on numerical solutions of a non-linear differential equation. He attended a Stagiaire Programme at the Institut von Karman de Dynamique des Fluides in Rhode-St-Genese (Belgium) and practiced at the Federal Institute for Highway Engineering, Cologne. He fulfilled the obligatory civic service at the Arbeiterwohlfahrt e.V., Mobiler Sozialer Hilfsdienst.
For 18 years he was honorary curator of a protestant parish.
Benchmarks of his success are
• Operation of >150 R&D projects
• Participation in 15 transnational projects, leadership in 7 European projects
• 3 books, many scientific publications