Institute of Geography
Staff
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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: 724, Geomatikum
Tel: +49 40 42838-4961
Email:
Office hours
- Thu 3 - 5 p.m.
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: 724, Geomatikum
Tel: +49 40 42838-4961
Fax: +49 40 42838-4967
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
- Tue 6 - 6:30 p.m.
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
Grindelberg 7
20144 Hamburg
Room: 2015
Tel: +49 40 42838-7722
Fax: +49 40 42838-7471
Email:
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: Myriam Albrecht
Key aspects of activity
- Urban climatology
- Remote sensing
- Image processing
Key aspects of activity
- Animal ecology
- Vegetation ecology
- Biogeography
- Habitat modeling
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
- Vegetation and landscape ecology with main focus on Central Asia, floristic mapping, GIS, multivariate analysis
- Mensch-Umwelt-Interaktionen in Südkirgistan (VW-Stiftung)
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
Key aspects of activity
- Regional climate modeling
- Terrain climatology
- Relief analysis
- Statistical and dynamic downscaling
Key aspects of activity
- Human/nature interactions
- Climate perception
- Coastal research
- Social studies of science
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
Key aspects of activity
- Soil science
- Geoinformatics and GIS
- Methane oxidation in landfill cover soils
- Spatial and temporal variability of gas fluxes in methane oxidation systems
- Diffusion experiments
Key aspects of activity
- Societal climate change
- Adaptation & resilience
- Cultural perception of climate change
Key aspects of activity
- Society-environment relationships
- South asia and south east asia
Key aspects of activity
- Regionalization of GCM output
- CarBioCial
Key aspects of activity
- Regional Climate Modelling (WRF)
- Project Regions:
- South America, Amazonian Basin
- Southern Germany
- Project: IpsPro
Key aspects of activity
- Human/nature interaction
- Climate change and adaption
- Coastal regions
- Southwest England
Key aspects of activity
- landscape research
- human/nature interaction
- landscape perception, landscape valuation
- cultural studies in landscape research
researcher
Grindelberg 7
20144 Hamburg
Room: 2014
Tel: +49 40 42838-7719
Email:
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
- Physical geography and geomorphology
- Pleistocene and holocene glaciation history
- High mountains of Asia
- European "Mittelgebirge" (mountains)
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
Key aspects of activity
- Transdisciplinary storm surge risk evaluation
- Climate change communication
- Stakeholder participation
Photo: Laura Schmidt
Key aspects of activity
- Transdisciplinary research and methods
- Sustainability-related science studies
- Postdevelopment and postcolonial theories
- Regional focus: Southern Africa
Key aspects of activity
- Geographies of homelessness
- Urban research
- Post-development / post-colonial theories
- Latin America (particularly Brazil)
Key aspects of activity
- Political Ecology and society-natur relationships
- Post-structuralist Geographies
- Geographies of power
- Postdevelopment and Postcolonial Theory
Key aspects of activity
- indigenous, postcolonial, feminist theories
- (creative) Methods of Qualitative Research
- Children’s Geographies/Geographies of Childhood
- Political Ecology
researcher
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 734, Geomatikum
Key aspects of activity
- GIS & Remote Sensing
- Regional Climate Modeling (WRF)
- Tibet and the Himalya
- Project CLASH
researcher
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 705, Geomatikum
Tel: +49 40 42838-5109
Fax: +49 40 42838-4981
Key aspects of activity
- Governance spaces, spatial concepts and territoriality
- Strategic spatial planning and cross-border cooperation in Europe
- Adaptive management, institutional change and socio-ecological systems
- Integrated coastal zone management and marine spatial planning
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 stuff BSC-DAT
- Water and landscape ecology
- Ecosystem risks
- Environmental analysis
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
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
- Dynamic downscaling and regional climate modeling
- Bioclimatology
- Central and South Asia
- Projekt CLASH, Projekt TREELINE
Photo: NIels Schwab
Key aspects of activity
- vegetation and landscape ecology
- dendroecology
- project TREELINE / Nepal
- e-Learning
Key aspects of activity
- Urban studies
- Sustainable Housing
- Methods of the empirical social research
- development research
- South Eastern Asia (especially Vietnam)
Technical, administrative and library staff
Photo: Tobias Hoff
Main office, management B.Sc. Geographie International
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 707, Geomatikum
Tel: +49 40 42838-4963
