Staff
Professors
Active professors

- Thu. 3 pm - 5 pm
- Regional climate and environmental modelling
- Climate impact research
- Geoinformatics and remote sensing
- SAGA-GIS development

Photo: Eray Cayli
- Tuesdays 3 pm - 5 pm
- 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
- n.V.
- Economic Geography
- Urban Geography
- Globalisation and Global Production Networks
- Geographies of Transnational Education

- by arrangement
- Social and political geography
- Inequality research
- Peasant und Vulnerability Studies
- Rural Studies
- Latin America

Photo: Christof Parnreiter
Tue 12-13:30
- Globalization and geographies of the world economy
- Global Cities and urban research
- Development studies
- Migration studies
- Latin America

- by arrangement
- 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

- Thu 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. (please register through the secretariat)
- 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

- Wed 12 - 1 p.m.
- 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
- Development research & unequal development
- Class relations & relations of exploitation
- Agrarian Change (Argentina)
- Meat Industry

Photo: Benno Fladvad
- Environmental Security/Climate Security
- Democracy in the Anthropocene
- Political Ecology
- Environmental Justice
- Energy Geographies
§17 professors

- Wed 10:30-12:00
- Urban and Social Geography
- Conflict research and political geography
- Africa, with a focus on South Africa and Botswana
Retired professors / with emeritus status

- Please contact the secretariat - 4909

Photo: Jürgen Ossenbrügge
- Mon 2 - 4 p.m. (please register through the secretariat)
- 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

- Animal ecology
- Vegetation ecology
- Biogeography
- Habitat modeling

- Evaluation of digital terrain models for use in soil science and hydrolology
- Modeling and landscape development
- Relief analysis
- Digital soil mapping

- 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
- Human/nature interactions
- Climate perception
- Coastal research
- Social studies of science
- Project: CLICCS
- Project: Klimafit

Photo: Michael Fink
- 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
- on appointment
- 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
by arrangement
- Societal climate change
- Adaptation & resilience
- Cultural perception of climate change
- Project: CUORE

Photo: Benno Hankers
- Remote Sensing
- Vegetation Geography
- GIS

Photo: Klara Kolhoff
- Economic geography
- Uneven development
- Theories of the state
- Latin America

Photo: Jana Lüdemann
- Political ecology & social-ecological transformation
- Climate change in high mountain areas
- Future geographies
- Geographies of food & water

Photo: John Lütten
- 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
- Urban Water Geographies
- Geographies of Food
- (Critical) Geographies of Global Inequalities

Photo: Sigrid Meiners
- Physical geography and geomorphology
- Pleistocene and holocene glaciation history
- High mountains of Asia
- European "Mittelgebirge" (mountains)
- The production and governance of space
- Development and Postcolonial Studies
- Blackness, memory and space
- The politics of difference

Photo: Paul Müller
- 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
- CARMaRSEC Project
- Sustainable Urban Environment Governance
- Sustainable Urban Housing Policies and Development
- Community-based Urban Public Space and Innovations

Photo: K. Peterknecht
- 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
Thu 2-4 p.m. (and by appointment)
- Social inequality in cities
- Population development / demographic change
- Mobility styles and travel behaviour
- Time geography / action space research
- Quantitative methods, GIS

Photo: Sarah Rabe
- Human-environment interactions
- Development Geography
- Sustainable Livelihoods
- Southeast Asia
- Project: sea4soCiety

- Urban research
- Geographies of homelessness
- post & decolonial theories
- feminist geographies & intersectionality
- Qualitative (&) visual methods

Photo: Tobias Schmitt
- Political Ecology and society-natur relationships
- Post-structuralist Geographies
- Geographies of power
- Postdevelopment and Postcolonial Theory

Photo: Louisa Schneider
- Security research
- Risk and crisis communication
- Risk perception, vulnerability and resilience
- Project: CUORE

Photo: Kerstin Schneider
- Role of citizens as multipliers for climate knowledge and action
- Social science-based research on climate change action
- Project: klimafit

Photo: NIels Schwab
- vegetation and landscape ecology
- dendroecology
- Nepal
- e-learning

Photo: Katrin Singer
Due to corona currently only by telephone:
Thu, 2 - 4 pm
- 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
- n.V.
- Critical Social Theory
- History of Capitalism
- Society-Nature-Relations
- Human-Animal Relations
- Human/nature interactions
- Community-based participatory research
- Critical development studies
- Project: Participatory forest management in Ethiopia

Photo: Bouchra Tafrata
- Economic Geography
- Political Ecology
- Green Capitalism and Spaces of Extraction
- Science and Technology Studies (STS)
- Feminist and Postcolonial Geographies

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

- 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
- Project leader: Build4People (BMBF)
- Sub-project leader: CAMaRSEC (BMBF)
- Urbanism with focus on housing
- Governance
- Sustainability research

- Vegetation and landscape ecology
- Forest ecosystems
- Satelite remote sensing, modeling and landscape development
- Skandinavia, Southern Africa
- Projects: HIBECO (completed), The Future Okavango

- High mountain areas, Himalayas
- GIS & remote sensing
- Statistical modelling
- Project: TREELINE

- Project staff BSC-DAT
- Water and landscape ecology
- Ecosystem risks
- Environmental analysis

Photo: Melanie Werner
- Biogeography
- GIS and Remote Sensing
- Ecological Niche Modelling

Photo: Anke Wessels
- 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
- Economic geography
- Labor and social affairs
- Inequality research
- Qualitative social research methods

Photo: Hanna Yaqing Zhan
- 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
- Modeling of georisks
- Climate adaptation
- Climate services

- Wed and Thu 2 - 4 p.m. (and by appointment)
- Impacts of climate change on societal stability
- Marine fisheries
- Local impacts of land use changes in Northern Germany
- Dynamic optimization modeling, GIS

- 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
- Urban studies
- Urban Souths
- Migration
- Documentary filmmaking and visual ethnography

- Dynamic downscaling and regional climate modeling
- Bioclimatology
- Central and South Asia
- Projekt CLASH, Projekt TREELINE

Photo: Matthias Tamminga
- Microplastics in marine, limnic and terrestrial ecosystems
- Physical geography & landscape ecology
Technical, administrative and library staff

Photo: Tobias Hoff
- International Exchange Programs
- Diversity in Education and Training

Photo: Iris Mendorff


Photo: Andreas Schiller
Other

Photo: Tehmina Aziz
- IS & Fluvial remote sensing
- Hydrological modeling approaches
- Indus River Basin

- Geoinformatics
- Remote sensing
- High Mountain Asia

Photo: Nadine Kaul
- Urban ecology
- Remote Sensing

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

Photo: Emilia Ormaechea
- Development research
- Unequal development
- Latin America
- Meat industry