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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 - 5 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
- Tuesdays 3 pm - 5 pm
Key aspects of activity
- Ecology and resilence
- Political violence, its legacies, and activist/grassroots responses to it
- Qualitative methods (especially ethnography)
- Turkey, Kurdistan, and their environs and diasporas
- Material/visual culture (art, architecture, landscape)
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
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 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
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
research associate
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 518, Geomatikum
Tel: +49 40 42838-5210
Office hours
- Wed 10:30-12:00
Key aspects of activity
- Urban and Social Geography
- Conflict research and political geography
- 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
Research associates
Key aspects of activity
- Animal ecology
- Vegetation ecology
- Biogeography
- Habitat modeling
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 808, Geomatikum
Tel: +49 40 42838-7418
Email: fgha007"AT"uni-hamburg.de
Key aspects of activity
- Evaluation of digital terrain models for use in soil science and hydrolology
- Modeling and landscape development
- Relief analysis
- Digital soil mapping
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: 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: Michael Fink
Key aspects of activity
- Adaptation to Climate Change and Natural Hazards
- Critical Cultural and Social Geography of the Global South
- Participatory Research Methods
- South Pacific
- 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: Benno Hankers
Key aspects of activity
- Remote Sensing
- Vegetation Geography
- GIS
Photo: Klara Kolhoff
Research interests
- Economic geography
- Uneven development
- Theories of the state
- Latin America
Photo: Jana Lüdemann
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 724, Geomatikum
Tel: +49 40 42838-5224
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)
Key aspects of activity
- The production and governance of space
- Development and Postcolonial Studies
- Blackness, memory and space
- The politics of difference
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: Thuy Nguyen
Key aspects of activity
- CARMaRSEC Project
- Sustainable Urban Environment Governance
- Sustainable Urban Housing Policies and Development
- Community-based Urban Public Space and Innovations
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
Photo: Thomas Pohl
Academic Council
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 735, Geomatikum
Tel: +49 40 42838-4964
Office hours
Thu 2-4 p.m. (and by appointment)
Key aspects of activity
- Social inequality in cities
- Population development / demographic change
- Mobility styles and travel behaviour
- Time geography / action space research
- Quantitative methods, GIS
Photo: Sarah Rabe
research associate
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 705, Geomatikum
Tel: +49 40 42838-5200
Email: sarah.rabe"AT"uni-hamburg.de
Key aspects of activity
- Human-environment interactions
- Development Geography
- Sustainable Livelihoods
- Southeast Asia
- Project: sea4soCiety
research associate
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 715, Geomatikum
Tel: +49 40 42838-4982
Email: fgrv007"AT"uni-hamburg.de
Key aspects of activity
- Urban research
- Geographies of homelessness
- post & decolonial theories
- feminist geographies & intersectionality
- Qualitative (&) visual methods
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
- Security research
- Risk and crisis communication
- Risk perception, vulnerability and resilience
- 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
Key aspects of activity
- Human/nature interactions
- Community-based participatory research
- Critical development studies
- Project: Participatory forest management in Ethiopia
Photo: Bouchra Tafrata
Key aspects of activity
- Economic Geography
- Political Ecology
- Green Capitalism and Spaces of Extraction
- Science and Technology Studies (STS)
- Feminist and Postcolonial Geographies
Photo: Carlos Tello
Key aspects of activity
- Political ecology and governance
- Land use change and management
- Risk and vulnerability mangement and assessment
Interim Professor for Terrestrial Remote Sensing
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 811, Geomatikum
Tel: +49 40 42838-4962
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: Michael Waibel
Key aspects of activity
- Project leader: Build4People (BMBF)
- Sub-project leader: CAMaRSEC (BMBF)
- Urbanism with focus on housing
- Governance
- Sustainability research
researcher
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 820, Geomatikum
Tel: +49 40 42838-4950
Email: fg0a050"AT"uni-hamburg.de
Key aspects of activity
- Vegetation and landscape ecology
- Forest ecosystems
- Satelite remote sensing, modeling and landscape development
- Skandinavia, Southern Africa
- Projects: HIBECO (completed), The Future Okavango
Key aspects of activity
- High mountain areas, Himalayas
- GIS & remote sensing
- Statistical modelling
- Project: TREELINE
Key aspects of activity
- Project staff BSC-DAT
- Water and landscape ecology
- Ecosystem risks
- Environmental analysis
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
Photo: Hanna Yaqing Zhan
Key aspects of activity
- Archipelago studies: Penghu, Taiwan. Ryukyu, Japan.
- Resilience, cultural geography
- East/Southeast Asian Epigraphy
- Project: CUORE (2020-2023)
Privatdozenten and contract university teachers
Photo: Laurens Bouwer
Key aspects of activity
- Modeling of georisks
- Climate adaptation
- Climate services
researcher
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
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: Paola Piscitelli
lecturer
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 734, Geomatikum
Key aspects of activity
- Urban studies
- Urban Souths
- Migration
- Documentary filmmaking and visual ethnography
Key aspects of activity
- Dynamic downscaling and regional climate modeling
- Bioclimatology
- Central and South Asia
- Projekt CLASH, Projekt TREELINE
Photo: Matthias Tamminga
Key aspects of activity
- Microplastics in marine, limnic and terrestrial ecosystems
- Physical geography & landscape ecology
Technical, administrative and library staff
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
Office, Hamburger Symposium Geographie
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 719, Geomatikum
Tel: +49 40 42838-4947
Other
Photo: Tehmina Aziz
Key aspects of activity
- IS & Fluvial remote sensing
- Hydrological modeling approaches
- Indus River Basin
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: mendoza
Key aspects of activity
- Qualitative methods
- Rural Studies
- Latin America (Colombia in Particular)
- Climate Change Adaptation
Photo: Emilia Ormaechea
Research interests
- Development research
- Unequal development
- Latin America
- Meat industry