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Professors
Active professors

Full Professor
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 814, Geomatikum
Tel: +49 40 42838-4960
Office hours
- Wed 11 pm - 1 pm
Key aspects of activity
- Regional climate and environmental modelling
- Climate impact research
- Geoinformatics and remote sensing
- SAGA-GIS development

Visiting Professor
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

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
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

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
Retired professors / with emeritus status

Professor for Human Geography
Office hours
- Please contact the secretariat - 4909
Research associates

Photo: Christin Bernhold
Key aspects of activity
- Entwicklungsforschung & Ungleiche Entwicklung
- Klassen-/ Ausbeutungsverhältnisse
- Agrarian Change
- Lateinamerika

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
- Human/nature interaction
- Caribbean (Bahamas)

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

researcher
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

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

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: Jennifer Fröhlich
Key aspects of activity
- Human/nature interactions
- Climate perception
- Climate knowledge and climate education
- Feminist Geographies
- Project: Klimafit

Photo: Corinna de Guttry
Key aspects of activity
- Societal climate change
- Adaptation & resilience
- Cultural perception of climate change

Photo: Benno Hankers
Key aspects of activity
- Remote Sensing
- Vegetation Geography
- GIS

Photo: Hengstmann
Key aspects of activity
- Microplastics in marine, limnic and terrestrial ecosystems
- Physical geography & landscape ecology

Photo: Ravi Jayaweera
Key aspects of activity
- Urban Geography
- Environmental & Urban Governance
- Housing & Housing Policy
- Sustainable Urban Transformation
- BMBF-Project Build4People

Key aspects of activity
- GCM and RCM Downscaling
- CarBioCial

Key aspects of activity
- Regional Climate Modelling (WRF)
- Project Regions:
- South America, Amazonian Basin
- Southern Germany
- Project: IpsPro

Key aspects of activity
- landscape research
- human/nature interaction
- landscape perception, landscape valuation
- cultural studies in landscape research

Photo: Linda Meier
Key aspects of activity
- Urban Water Geographies
- Geographies of Food
- (Critical) Geographies of Global Inequalities

Key aspects of activity
- Physical geography and geomorphology
- Pleistocene and holocene glaciation history
- High mountains of Asia
- European "Mittelgebirge" (mountains)

Photo: mendoza
Key aspects of activity
- Qualitative methods
- Rural Studies
- Latin America (Colombia in Particular)
- Climate Change Adaptation

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
Key aspects of activity
- The production and governance of space
- Development and Postcolonial Studies
- Blackness, memory and space
- The politics of difference

Photo: Dirk Müller
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
- Urban and social geography
- Social inequalities in cities
- Time geography and action space research
- Consequences of demographic change
- quantitative methods, GIS

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: 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

Key aspects of activity
- Human/nature interactions
- Community-based participatory research
- Critical development studies
- Project: Participatory forest management in Ethiopia

Photo: Carlos Tello
Key aspects of activity
- Political ecology and governance
- Land use change and management
- Risk and vulnerability mangement and assessment

Key aspects of activity
- GIS & Remote Sensing
- Regional Climate Modeling (WRF)
- Tibet and the Himalya
- Project CLASH

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
- Statistical downscaling
- Eastern and Southern Africa
- BMBF-Project: The Future Okavango
- Climate change and conflicts

Key aspects of activity
- Project staff BSC-DAT
- Water and landscape ecology
- Ecosystem risks
- Environmental analysis

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

Photo: Hanna Yaqing Zhan
research associate
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

Key aspects of activity
- Vegetation ecology
- Biogeography
- Ecosystems of high mountains
- Projekt TREELINE

Key aspects of activity
- Biogeography
- Habitat modeling
- Project: TRANSPAST

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

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: Pierre Funcke

Photo: Tobias Hoff
Main office, management B.Sc. Geographie International
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 707, Geomatikum
Tel: +49 40 42838-4963

non-scientific staff
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 523, Geomatikum
Tel: +49 40 42838-7129
Email: fgkv006"AT"uni-hamburg.de

Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 719, Geomatikum
Tel: +49 40 42838-4947
Email: fgga002"AT"uni-hamburg.de
Other

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