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Professors
Active professors
Full Professor
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 814, Geomatikum
Tel: +49 40 42838-4960
Office hours
- Thu. 3 pm - 4 pm
Key aspects of activity
- Regional climate and environmental modelling
- Climate impact research
- Geoinformatics and remote sensing
- SAGA-GIS development
Photo: Eray Cayli
Professor of Human Geography with a Focus on Violence and Security in the Anthropocene
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 527, Geomatikum
Tel: +49 40 42838-5217
Email: eray.cayli"AT"uni-hamburg.de
Office hours
- Wednesdays 14:00-16:00 (WiSe 2024/25)
Key aspects of activity
- The politics of ecology, geology, and resilience
- Political violence, its legacies, and activist/grassroots responses to it
- Qualitative methods (especially ethnography)
- Turkey, Kurdistan, Greece, and their environs and diasporas
- Material/visual culture (art, architecture, landscape)
Photo: Olena Dubovyk
Key aspects of activity
- Terrestrial Remote Sensing
- Geospatial analysis and modelling
- Land surface dynamics, changes and drivers
- Natural hazards
- Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
Photo: Jana Kleibert
Professor for Economic Geography
Bundesstraße 55
Room: 510, Geomatikum
Office hours
- n.V.
Key aspects of activity
- Economic Geography
- Urban Geography
- Globalisation and Global Production Networks
- Geographies of Transnational Education
Photo: Martina Neuburger
Professor for Integrative Geography
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 713, Geomatikum
Tel: +49 40 42838-5220
Office hours
- by arrangement
Key aspects of activity
- Social and political geography
- Inequality research
- Peasant und Vulnerability Studies
- Rural Studies
- Latin America
Photo: Christof Parnreiter
Professor for Human Geography
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 516, Geomatikum
Tel: +49 40 42838-4961
Fax: +49 40 42838-4967
Office hours
Tue 12-13:30
Key aspects of activity
- Globalization and geographies of the world economy
- Global Cities and urban research
- Development studies
- Migration studies
- Latin America
Professor for Integrative Geography
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 720/22, Geomatikum
Tel: +49 40 42838-5225
Fax: +49 40 42838-4981
Office hours
- by arrangement
Key aspects of activity
- Human/nature interaction
- Coastal and resource management
- Climate change adaptation in coastal areas and on islands
- Cultural geography, economic geography
- Spatial and regional planning, development studies
- Caribbean, Latin America, Canada, European coastal areas
Professor of Physical Geography
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 819, Geomatikum
Tel: +49 40 42838-4911
Fax: +49 40 42838-4981
Office hours
- Wed 12 - 1 p.m.
Key aspects of activity
- Biogeography
- Vegetation and landscape ecology
- Human/nature interactions
- mountain environments, forest and steppe ecosystems
- Arctic, Central and South Asia, North America, Middle Europe
Junior professors
Photo: Christin Bernhold
Research interests
- Development research & unequal development
- Class relations & relations of exploitation
- Agrarian Change (Argentina)
- Meat Industry
Photo: Benno Fladvad
Junior Professor for Natural Science Peace Research with focus on Climate and Security
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 736, Geomatikum
Tel: +49 40 42838 5205
Key aspects of activity
- Environmental Security/Climate Security
- Democracy in the Anthropocene
- Political Ecology
- Environmental Justice
- Energy Geographies
§17 professors
senior researcher/lecturer
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 518, Geomatikum
Tel: +49 40 42838-5210
Office hours
- Thu 10:30 - 12:00 (by prior arrangement)
Key aspects of activity
- Urban and Social Geography
- Conflict research and political geography
- Sustainable Mobility
- Africa, with a focus on South Africa and Botswana
Retired professors / with emeritus status
Professor for Human Geography
Office hours
- Please contact the secretariat - 4909
Photo: Jürgen Oßenbrügge
Professor for Human Geography
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 510, Geomatikum
Tel: +49 40 42838-5221
Fax: +49 40 42838-4967
Office hours
- Mon 2 - 4 p.m. (please register through the secretariat)
Key aspects of activity
- Economic geography and urban / regional research
- Political geography and conflict research
- Processes of Globalization and regionalization
- Disparity research
- Europe, Central America, South Africa
Professor for Integrative Geography
Grindelberg 7
20144 Hamburg
Room: 2015
Tel: +49 40 42838-7722
Fax: +49 40 42838-7471
Office hours
- Thu 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. (please register through the secretariat)
Key aspects of activity
- Human-society-nature interactions
- climate change, climate security and resource conflicts
- renewable energies and sustainable land use
- modelling of complex systems
- technology assessment, arms control and international security
Research associates
Key aspects of activity
- Animal ecology
- Vegetation ecology
- Biogeography
- Habitat modeling
Key aspects of activity
- Physical geography
- GIS, geoinformatics and geomorphometry
- Modeling and simulation of spatial processes especially geo-ecologically relevant processes such as the landscape water budget and the coupled systems climate, topography, soils, vegetation
Photo: Janina Dannenberg
Key aspects of activity
- Nuclear Justice
- Gender
- Societal Relations to Nature
- Reflexivity in Qualitative Research
- Feminist Foreign Policy
- Sea of Islands
Photo: Martin Döring
Researcher; CLICCS: Project Manager C3
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 709, Geomatikum
Tel: +49 40 42838-9519
Email: doering"AT"metaphorik.de
Key aspects of activity
- Human/nature interactions
- Climate perception
- Coastal research
- Social studies of science
- Project: CLICCS
- Project: Klimafit
Photo: Anton Eplinius
research associate
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 506, Geomatikum
Key aspects of activity
- Housing Studies
- Critical Urban Studies
- Economic geography
- Financialization of housing and everyday life
Photo: Michael Fink
Key aspects of activity
- Society's response to climate change and natural hazards
- Blue carbon and carbon dioxide removal
- Cultural and social geography, political ecology
- Participatory research methods
- Project: sea4soCiety
Photo: Elke Fischer
researcher / Head of Laboratory
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 816, Geomatikum
Tel: +49 40 42838-7419
Office hours
- on appointment
Key aspects of activity
- Physical geography and landscape ecology
- Microplastics in limnic and marine ecosystems
- Terrestrial ecosystem research
- Tropics and subtropics, West and North Africa
Photo: Corinna de Guttry
Researcher
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 721, Geomatikum
Tel: +49 40 42838-5109
Office hours
by arrangement
Key aspects of activity
- Societal climate change
- Adaptation & resilience
- Cultural perception of climate change
- Project: CUORE
Photo: Clara Hertz
Key aspects of activity
- Economic geography
- Critical Urban Studies
- Geographies of private purpose built student accommodation (PBSA)
- Feminist Geographies
Key aspects of activity
- Geoinformatics
- Remote sensing
- High Mountain Asia
Photo: Nadine Kaul
Ph.D. student
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 808, Geomatikum
Key aspects of activity
- Urban ecology
- Remote Sensing
Photo: Binita Khanal
Research associate
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 835, Geomatikum
Key aspects of activity
- Earth observation for vegetation and biodiversity monitoring
- Geospatial analysis and modelling
- Landscape ecology
- Habitat suitability modelling
- Terrestrial ecosystem dynamics
Photo: Anton Knor
research associate
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 725, Geomatikum
Tel: +49 40 42838- 7383
Email: anton.knor"AT"uni-hamburg.de
Key aspects of activity
- Human-nature interaction in the coastal context
- Climate impact adaptation and resilience
- Marine biodiversity conservation
- Project: METAscales
Photo: Klara Kolhoff
Research interests
- Economic geography
- Uneven development
- Theories of the state
- Latin America
Photo: Mathilde Kraft
Research Associate
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 732, Geomatikum
Key aspects of activity
- Climate Justice/Environmental Justice
- Political Ecology
- Gender
- Sea of Islands
- Nuclear Colonialism and Security
Photo: Lingos, Alexandros
UNESCO Chair Manager/ Research Associate
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 716, Geomatikum
Tel: +49 40 428384151
Key aspects of activity
- Sustainable development and planning
- Environmental communication and education
- Island ecosystem development
- Environmental management
- Ecotherapy and human-nature connection
- Project support: UNESCO Chair
Photo: Peter Michael Link
research associate
Grindelberg 7
20144 Hamburg
Room: 2014
Tel: +49 40 42838-7719
Email: michael.link"AT"zmaw.de
Office hours
- Wed and Thu 2 - 4 p.m. (and by appointment)
Key aspects of activity
- Impacts of climate change on societal stability
- Marine fisheries
- Local impacts of land use changes in Northern Germany
- Dynamic optimization modeling, GIS
Photo: Jana Lüdemann
Key aspects of activity
- Political ecology & social-ecological transformation
- Climate change in high mountain areas
- Future geographies
- Geographies of food & water
Photo: John Lütten
Research interests
- Sociology of labor and industrial relations
- Precarization and precarity
- Class relations and class theories
- Geographies of precarious work and migration
- Consciousness of wage laborers
Photo: Linda Meier
Key aspects of activity
- Urban Water Geographies
- Geographies of Food
- (Critical) Geographies of Global Inequalities
Photo: Sigrid Meiners
Key aspects of activity
- Physical geography and geomorphology
- Pleistocene and holocene glaciation history
- High mountains of Asia
- European "Mittelgebirge" (mountains)
Photo: Adnan Mirhanoğlu
Key aspects of activity
- Political Ecology
- Water governance
- Critical Institutionalism
- Science and Technology Studies
- Qualitative Research Methods
Photo: Paul Müller
Key aspects of activity
- Conflict between humans and the living environment in coastal systems
- Sustainable use of marine bio-ressources
- Sustainable climate change adaptation scenarios for the german fisheries policy
- Project: CLICCS
Photo: Emilia Ormaechea
Research interests
- Development research
- Unequal development
- Latin America
- Meat industry
Photo: Thomas Pohl
Senior Lecturer
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 735, Geomatikum
Tel: +49 40 42838-4964
Office hours
by appointment
Key aspects of activity
- Urban development
- Social inequality in cities
- Processes of sub- and reurbanisation
- Mobility styles and travel behaviour
- Quantitative methods, GIS
Photo: Nikhil Raghuvanshi
Research associate
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 835, Geomatikum
Key aspects of activity
- Remote Sensing
- Climate Extremes
- Land Degradation Monitoring and Assessment
Photo: Fatemeh Saba
Research associate
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 835, Geomatikum
Key aspects of activity
- Remote sensing
- Forest disturbances
- Land use /land cover monitoring
- Machine/deep learning
- GIS analysis
- Drought monitoring
- Land degradation
Photo: Tobias Schmitt
Key aspects of activity
- Political Ecology and society-natur relationships
- Post-structuralist Geographies
- Geographies of power
- Postdevelopment and Postcolonial Theory
Photo: Louisa Schneider
Key aspects of activity
- Adaptation and resilience in climate change
- Cultural-related resilience and everyday practices
- Risk perception, risk and crisis communication
- Project: CUORE
Photo: Kerstin Schneider
Key aspects of activity
- Role of citizens as multipliers for climate knowledge and action
- Social science-based research on climate change action
- Project: klimafit
Photo: NIels Schwab
Key aspects of activity
- vegetation and landscape ecology
- dendroecology
- Nepal
- e-learning
Photo: Katrin Singer
research associate
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 734, Geomatikum
Tel: +49 40 42838-5202
Office hours
Due to corona currently only by telephone:
Thu, 2 - 4 pm
Key aspects of activity
- Political ecology & socio-ecological transformation
- indigenous, post-colonial and feminist theories
- creative and artistic methods (C/Artography)
- Children's Geographies/Geographies of Childhood
Photo: privat
Research associate
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 513, Geomatikum
Tel: +49 40 42838-4969
Office hours
- n.V.
Key aspects of activity
- Critical Social Theory
- History of Capitalism
- Society-Nature-Relations
- Human-Animal Relations
Photo: Carlos Tello
Key aspects of activity
- Political ecology and governance
- Land use change and management
- Risk and vulnerability mangement and assessment
Photo: Tamatoa Tepuhiarii
research associate
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 732, Geomatikum
Key aspects of activity
- Nuclear impacts research
- Indigenous methodologies
Key aspects of activity
- Dynamical Downscaling in Complex Terrain
- Modeling Hydrological Processes
- Remote Sensing of Cryosphere
- Monsoon Dynamics at Extreme Margins
- Climate Change, Impacts and Society
Photo: William Vargas
Key aspects of activity
- Political economy of climate change
- Subaltern livelihoods and spatial relationships
- Ethnographic methods
- Project: sea4soCiety
Photo: privat
research associate
Bundesstraße 55, 5. Stock
20146 Hamburg
Room: 517, Geomatikum
Tel: +49 40 42838-5222
Office hours
- n.V.
Research interests
- economic geography
- relations of power
- hegemony theory
- geographies of traditional medicine
Photo: Michael Waibel
Key aspects of activity
- Project leader: Build4People (BMBF)
- Sub-project leader: CAMaRSEC (BMBF)
- Urbanism with focus on housing
- Governance
- Sustainability research
research associate
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 813, Geomatikum
Tel: +49 40 42838-9082
Office hours
- Tuesday 12 am - 1 pm
Key aspects of activity
- Project staff BSC-DAT
- Water and landscape ecology
- Ecosystem risks
- Environmental analysis
- Erosion and runoff modeling
Photo: Melanie Werner
Key aspects of activity
- Biogeography
- GIS and Remote Sensing
- Ecological Niche Modelling
Photo: Anke Wessels
Key aspects of activity
- social science based research on climate change adaptation
- transformative governance in coastal areas
- integrated assessment of risk management options
- stakeholder involvement
- Project: WAKOS
Photo: Marwaa Zazai
Research interests
- Economic geography
- Labor and social affairs
- Inequality research
- Qualitative social research methods
Privatdozenten and contract university teachers
Photo: Laurens Bouwer
Key aspects of activity
- Modeling of georisks
- Climate adaptation
- Climate services
Key aspects of activity
- Urban and social geography
- Critical geography
- Relational human geography
- Social inequalities, ordinariness and conflicts in cities
- Global North-South-Geographies and post-colonial theory
Photo: K. Peterknecht
Key aspects of activity
- Geo- and ecosystem research karst and caves
- Karst area of Central Europe
- Cave morphology
- Clastic and chemical karst sediments
- Karst hydrology and hydrochemistry
- Cave climate
- Climate-sensitive small speleological forms
Technical, administrative and library staff
Foreign Language Employee
Bundesstrasse 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: room 719, Geomatikum
Tel: +49 40 42838 4947
Fax: +49 40 42838-4981
Office hours
- Monday until Friday from 8:00 a.m. until 2 p.m. by telephone, Email or in the office
Key aspects of activity
- Finance management for the institute of geography
- Third- party funding management and acquisition for AG Ratter
- Organization and coordination of international conferences, symposia, meetings, workshops and public events for AG Ratter
Photo: Tobias Hoff
Coordination of ERASMUS & B.Sc. Geographie International
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 707, Geomatikum
Tel: +49 40 42838-4963
Key aspects of activity
- International Exchange Programs
- Diversity in Education and Training
Photo: Iris Mendorff
non-scientific staff
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 503, Geomatikum
Tel: +49 40 42838-5662
Email: fgkv006"AT"uni-hamburg.de
Photo: Andreas Schiller
Photo: Anna Wagner
Foreign Language Employee, Secretariat
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 503, Geomatikum
Other
Photo: Tehmina Aziz
Key aspects of activity
- IS & Fluvial remote sensing
- Hydrological modeling approaches
- Indus River Basin
Key aspects of activity
- Regional climate modeling (REMO)
- Extreme precipitation
- Land-Atmosphere Interactions
- Changes in Land Use
Photo: Drautz, Stefanie
Key aspects of activity
- Climate and Resilience Research with a focus on Coastal Areas/Islands
- Climate Risk Analysis and Vulnerability Assessment
- Transdisciplinary & Transformative Research
- Project: METAscales
Photo: Malin Klein
Key aspects of activity
- Physical geography
- Atmospheric microplastics
- Microplastics in terrestrial ecosystems
Key aspects of activity
- The production and governance of space
- Development and Postcolonial Studies
- Blackness, memory and space
- The politics of difference
Key aspects of activity
- Project: Prodigy
- Soil and agroecosystems modeler
- Soil carbon stocks
- Effects of Climate Change on Agroecosystems
Photo: Milena Schmiegel
Research Intern
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 527, Geomatikum
Research associate
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Key aspects of activity
- Climate Change
- Wetlands
- Urbane areas
- Flooding
- Latin America
Photo: Laszlo Steinwärder
Ph.D. student
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 519, Geomatikum
Key aspects of activity
- Economic geography
- Global relations of inequality and dependency
- Foreign direct investments and profit transfer
- Peace and conflict research
- Political economy of violent conflicts
Key aspects of activity
- Human/nature interactions
- Conservation conflicts
- Community-based participatory research
- Critical development studies/human well-being
- Project A: Participatory forest management in Ethiopia
- Project B: Effectivity analyses of the protected areas of Mount Elgon (Uganda/Kenya)
Key aspects of activity
- Process-based hydrological modeling
- Value-added analyses of increased model resolution
- Flash floods under Climate Change
Key aspects of activity
- High mountain areas, Himalayas
- GIS & remote sensing
- Statistical modelling
- Project: TREELINE
Photo: Güllistan Yarkin
Guest researcher
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 527, Geomatikum
Email: gullistanyarkin"AT"gmail.com
Key aspects of activity
- Racism, Racialized Systems and Everyday Racism
- Anti-racism and Everyday Anti-racism
- Turkey and Kurdistan
- Historical Sociology
- Political Economy