Staff
Professors
Active professors


Photo: UHH/Ament

Photo: Stefanie Arndt


Photo: Christian Beer

- Sedimentologie der Karbonate
- Sequenzstratigraphie
- Beckenanalyse

Photo: ub

- Thu. 3 pm - 4 pm
- Regional climate and environmental modelling
- Climate impact research
- Geoinformatics and remote sensing
- SAGA-GIS development


Photo: Eray Cayli
- Wednesdays 13:00-15:00 (WiSe 2025/26)
- 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
- Terrestrial Remote Sensing
- Geospatial analysis and modelling
- Land surface dynamics, changes and drivers
- Natural hazards
- Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

- Theoretical Oceanography


Photo: Annette Eschenbach
Tuesday 2:30 - 3:30 pm
Currently due to corona please register first by e-mail. You receive a time frame and a zoom link.
- Properties and function of soils
- Sustainable use of soils
- Soil protection

Photo: Eleanor Frajka-Williams
- Experimental Oceanography



Photo: Clisap


Photo: Ilyina

Photo: S. Jung

Photo: Jana Kleibert
- n.V.
- Economic Geography
- Urban Geography
- Globalisation and Global Production Networks
- Geographies of Transnational Education

Photo: Lars Kutzbach
- by arrangement

Photo: Lars Kutzbach
- Die Pedosphäre im Klimasystem
- Stoffkreisläufe an Grenzflächen im Erdsystem
- Regionale Hydrologie terrestrischer Systeme
- Land-Atmosphären und laterale Stoffflüsse in Permafrostlandschaften
- Landschaftsentwicklung und Nährstoffhaushalt von Permafrostlandschaften im Klimawandel
- Hydrologie, Kohlenstoff- und Nährstoffhaushalt von Feuchtgebieten in den borealen, gemäßigten und mediterranen Klimazonen
- Neue statistische Verfahren für amplitudenoptimierte Paläoklimarekonstruktionen aus zeitlich hochaufgelösten, verrauschten Proxydaten


Photo: Elena Mellado Gonzales


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

Photo: K. Saint Pere

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

Photo: Jörn Peckmann

- 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

- Structural geology
- Neotectonics
- Volcano-tectonics
- Exploration geology

- 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

- Benthische Foraminiferen
- Paläozeanographie
- Isotopengeochemie

- System Analysis and Modelling

Photo: CICERO

- Remote Sensing & Assimilation

Photo: UHH/Stammer
Photo: MPI-M/Bettina Diallo

Photo: Nedjeljka Zagar
Junior professors

Photo: Christin Bernhold
- Development research & unequal development
- Class relations & relations of exploitation
- Agrarian Change (Argentina)
- Meat Industry

Photo: Benno Fladvad
- on appointment
- Climate Security and Environmental Security
- Environmental Justice and Nuclear Justice
- Political Geography and Political Ecology
- Critical Security Studies
- Peace and Conflict Studies
- Critical Energy Studies
- Qualitative Methods

Photo: C. Hammer
§17 professors

- Thu 10:30 - 12:00 (by prior arrangement)
- Urban and Social Geography
- Conflict research and political geography
- Sustainable Mobility
- Africa, with a focus on South Africa and Botswana


Photo: Sarah Kang

Photo: KlimaCampus HH


Photo: Bjorn Stevens
Retired professors / with emeritus status

- Remote Sensing & Assimilation


Photo: Burghard Brümmer

Photo: Prof. Dr. Martin Claußen


- Please contact the secretariat - 4909

Photo: Günter Miehlich
- Public relations (talks and walks about soils)

Photo: Günter Miehlich
- Public relations (talks and walks about soils)

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

Photo: Eva-Maria Pfeiffer

Photo: Eva-Maria Pfeiffer


Photo: UHH / Schatzmann

- 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

- Scale interaction
- Dynamics and chemistry in the micro-scale and mesoscale
- Coupled models
- Model uncertainty and evaluation
- Transfer of research results to the public
- Theoretical Oceanography
- Theoretical Oceanography
Research associates
- Theoretical Oceanography
- Multi-sensor and multi-temporal Earth Observation (optical, SAR, LiDAR, UAV) for agriculture and land systems
- AI and machine learning for geospatial data analysis and sustainability monitoring
- Development of Earth Observation–based indicators for agroecosystem monitoring

Photo: private
- Climate Modelling
- Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)
- European cold extremes
- Extreme event attribution

Photo: Elisa Toth
- Sandy soils in the Kavango region of Namibia
- Effects of land use and land management on soil carbon and nitrogen content
- Soil-legume-interactions

Photo: Maria Seedtke
- C dynamics and stabilization of C in agricultural soils
- Using the combination of biochar and enhanced weathering for carbon dioxide removal (CDR) from the atmosphere and for improving soil properties
- Stable C isotopes

Photo: privat

Photo: Meredith Avison

Photo: Victor Avsarkisov
- Climate Modelling
- Remote Sensing & Assimilation
- SFB TRR 181


Photo: Joscha Becker

Photo: Jackeline Behncke

Photo: Goratz Beobide
- Climate Modelling

Photo: UHH, RRZ/MCC, Mentz
- HELP modell
- Editorship Hamburger Bodenkundliche Arbeiten

Photo: UHH, RRZ/MCC, Mentz
- HELP modell
- Editorship Hamburger Bodenkundliche Arbeiten

Photo: Benjamin Blanz

Photo: Benjamin Blanz

- Climate Variability
- Extremes
- Dynamic Meteorology

- Animal ecology
- Vegetation ecology
- Biogeography
- Habitat modeling


Photo: UHH / Boettcher
- Urban modelling
- Microscale modelling
- Mesoscale modelling
- Precipitation in urban areas
- Urban adaptation to climate change
- Impact of wind turbines on atmospheric flow
- Impact of wind turbines on climate

Photo: Leonard Borchert

Photo: Leonard Borchert
- Climate Extremes

Photo: Hartmut Borth

Photo: Joel Bracamontes
- Experimental Oceanography

Photo: UHH / Senke

Photo: Emelie Breunig
- Experimental Oceanography

Photo: private
- Simulations with Earth system models MPI-ESM and ICON
- Development of data assimilation systems with an oceanic EnKF
- Large ensemble climate prediction and projection systems

Photo: Lukas Brunner

Photo: Martin Burgdorf

- Carbon dynamics and weathering processes
- Collaboration in the PyMiCCS project (https://cdrterra.de/en/consortia/pymiccs)
- Modeling the effects of biochar and rock flour on soil processes
- Carbon dynamics and weathering processes
- Collaboration in the PyMiCCS project (https://cdrterra.de/en/consortia/pymiccs)
- Modeling the effects of biochar and rock flour on soil processes

Photo: Kenneth Chan
- Theoretical Oceanography

Photo: Evridiki Chrysagi
- Theoretical Oceanography


- 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
- Project coordinator SFB/TRR 181 "Energy transfers in Atmosphere and Ocean"
- Theor. Oceanography

Photo: Dragaud
- Theoretical Oceanography

Photo: Janina Dannenberg
- Nuclear Justice
- Gender
- Societal Relations to Nature
- Reflexivity in Qualitative Research
- Feminist Foreign Policy
- Sea of Islands

Photo: UHH, RRZ/MCC, Mentz
- Theoretical Oceanography

Photo: MPI-M


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


Photo: UNI HH/Julia Draeger
- Theoretical Oceanography

- Theoretical Oceanography

Photo: Tim Eckhardt
- Hood-based trace gas flux measurements.
- Recent carbon dynamics at the soil-vegetation-atmosphere interface
- Peatland restoration and climate change mitigation
- Theoretical oceanography

Photo: Anton Eplinius
- Housing Studies
- Critical Urban Studies
- Economic geography
- Financialization of housing and everyday life
- Remote Sensing and Assimilation

Photo: Lukas Fiedler
- Single Model Initial Condition Large Ensemble Modelling
- Detection and Attribution of Climate Extremes
- Climate of the High Latitudes

Photo: Claudia Fiencke
- Aerobic and anaerobic N turnover of Arctic soils
- Microbial induced N cycle
- Long-term determination of microbial biomass

Photo: Danai Filippou

Photo: Michael Fink
- 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
- on appointment
- Physical geography and landscape ecology
- Microplastics in limnic and marine ecosystems
- Terrestrial ecosystem research
- Tropics and subtropics, West and North Africa

Photo: Niels Fuchs
- Sea Ice

Photo: Miriam Fuss
- wetland biogeochemistry
- greenhouse gas fluxes in salt marshes
- soil vegetation-interactions
- Global Change effects on wetland ecosystem functions
- impact of reoccurring reducing and oxidising conditions on element cycling in soils

Photo: Martin Gade
- Coastal Remote Sensing and Air-Sea Interactions

Photo: Leonardo de Aro Galera
- Research in project: The impact of permafrost thawing on net primary productivity and nutrients availability of the polygonal tundra in the Lena River Delta, Siberia
- C- and N-cycle in permafrost-affected soils
- Soil carbon stocks in tropical ecosystems
- Soil greenhouse gas emissions
- Stable isotopes analysis

Photo: Leonardo de Aro Galera
- Research in project: The impact of permafrost thawing on net primary productivity and nutrients availability of the polygonal tundra in the Lena River Delta, Siberia
- C- and N-cycle in permafrost-affected soils
- Soil carbon stocks in tropical ecosystems
- Soil greenhouse gas emissions
- Stable isotopes analysis


Photo: private
- Arctic climate, e.g. Arctic amplification and sea ice
- Arctic land-ocean carbon cycle
- Internal climate variability and large ensemble climate model simulations.

Photo: Robert Konen
- Urban Climate Lab
- Community model METRAS-PCL
- DKRZ user group representative for UHH

Photo: Alexa Griesel
- Theoretical Oceanography

Photo: UHH, RRZ/MCC, Mentz

Photo: UHH, RRZ/MCC, Mentz

Photo: Corinna de Guttry
by arrangement
- Societal climate change
- Adaptation & resilience
- Cultural perception of climate change
- UNESCO : Coordination for Academic Integration and Student Engagement.
- Project: CUORE


Photo: Franziska S. Hanf

Photo: UHH/Harms

Photo: R. Hartmann

Photo: Ravikiran Hegde

Photo: Adrian Heger
- Master in Geo Sciences, Universität Hamburg, 2017, Master thesis on Surface energy balances of bogs in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
- Soil carbon in hardwood floodplain forests
- Soil organic carbon turnover
- Carbon dioxide flux measurements in situ


Photo: Irene Böttcher-Gajewski
- Scientific project manager
- Coordination of the Coming Decade project

Photo: Clara Hertz
- Economic geography
- Critical Urban Studies
- Geographies of private purpose built student accommodation (PBSA)
- Feminist Geographies

Photo: Lara Heyl
- Experimental Oceanography

Photo: UHH, RRZ/MCC, Mentz
- Eddy Covariance trace gas and energy fluxes
- Temperate bog ecosystems in Germany and Patagonia
- Climate change mitigating potential of peatland restoration

Photo: Katharina Holube
- Subtropical variability
- Equatorial waves
- Madden-Julian Oscillation

Photo: Tom Jäppinen



- Geoinformatics
- Remote sensing
- High Mountain Asia


Photo: Lara Kaiser
- Master in Landscape Ecology, University of Hohenheim 2018, Master thesis on Plant interactions in South Africa
- Methane fluxes in permafrost affected soils
- Mechanistic Modelling


Photo: Nadine Kaul
- Urban ecology
- Remote Sensing

Photo: Binita Khanal
- Earth observation for vegetation and biodiversity monitoring
- Geospatial analysis and modelling
- Landscape ecology
- Habitat suitability modelling
- Terrestrial ecosystem dynamics


Photo: Lukas Klische
- Cycling Research / Bikeability
- (Bicycle) Tourism
- Quantitative social science methods
- Project: BikeAccessCheck

Photo: Marlene Klockmann
- Climate Modelling with ICON
- decadal prediction
- data assimilation and ocean initialisation

Photo: Christian Knoblauch
- Aerobic and anaerobic C-turnover
- Methane and carbon dioxide cycle
- Vegetation-microorganisms interaction
- Stable isotopes (C, N, O, H/D)

Photo: Anton Knor
- Human-nature interaction in the coastal context
- Climate impact adaptation and resilience
- Marine biodiversity conservation
- Project: METAscales

Photo: Armin Köhl
- Remote Sensing & Assimilation

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

Photo: Mathilde Kraft
- Climate Justice/Environmental Justice
- Political Ecology
- Gender
- Sea of Islands
- Nuclear Colonialism and Security

Photo: Minjung Kwon
- Contribution to the development of permafrost carbon decomposition model
- Quantifying the climate change effects (heatwaves, warming, drying) on CO2 and CH4 cycles in high latitudes and northern peatlands

Photo: Andre Landwehr
- Cycling Research / Bikeability
- Processing and analysis of geodata
- Web-Development
- Project: BikeAccessCheck

Mo–Fr, 9–12 und 13–16 Uhr
- Wettermast Hamburg

With Previous Notice:
Mondays 2 - 4 pm
Fridays 10 - 12 am
- Machine Learning
- Climate Data Reconstruction
- Climate Modelling
- Teaching

Photo: Juliane Lenz
- Effects of global change on nitrous oxide and carbon dynamics in estuaries and marshes
- Nitrogen cycle and interactions with the carbon cycling
- Isotope geochemistry, in particular for nitrogen (15N/14N) and oxygen (18O/16O)
- member of the Research Training Group 2530 "Biota-mediated effects on Carbon cycling in Estuaries" at the University of Hamburg
- part of the Department of Aquatic Nutrient Cycles in the Institute of Carbon Cycles at the Helmholtz Centre Hereon
- Master in Earth and Environment, specialisation biology and chemistry of soil and water, Wageningen University, The Netherlands, 2019; master thesis on Plantago lanceolata's ability to secrete biological nitrification inhibitors and the effect on nitrous oxide emissions from peat and sandy soils.
- Greenhouse gas emissions from estuarine marsh and in-situ flux measurements
- Soil-vegetation-atmosphere interactions and herbivory effects
- Carbon cycling and plant-soil microbes interactions

Photo: Dr. Hongmei Li

Photo: Lingos, Alexandros
- 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
- 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

Photo: Bo Liu

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
- Development and application of global circulation models, analysis of climate variability, application of theoretical concepts to meteorology


Photo: Dr. Moritz Mathis

Photo: Sigrid Meiners
- Physical geography and geomorphology
- Pleistocene and holocene glaciation history
- High mountains of Asia
- European "Mittelgebirge" (mountains)

Photo: Johanna Metzger

Photo: Johanna Metzger
- Decadal Climate Predictions
- Machine Learning

Photo: private
- Statistical modelling, biogeography, mechanistic relations between physical and biological processes, seasonal-to-decadal scale forecasts, forecast verification

Photo: B. Mihailova

Photo: Adnan Mirhanoğlu
- Political Ecology
- Water governance
- Critical Institutionalism
- Science and Technology Studies
- Qualitative Research Methods

Photo: Vidur Mithal
- Experimental Oceanography

Photo: Till Moritz
- Experimental Oceanography

Photo: Marius Moser
- Modeling of methane processes in permafrost


Photo: Sunanda Narayanan
- Biogeochemical processes in terrestrial ecosystems
- Carbon and nutrient dynamics in tidal and Arctic soils
- Interactions between soil, plants, and microorganisms

Photo: private
- Sea Ice

Photo: UHH, RRZ/MCC, Mentz

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

- Theoretical Oceanography
- Ecosystem Modelling

Photo: Antikumar Patel
- Theoretical Oceanography, SFB / TRR 181
- Soil Chemistry / Biogeochemistry
- Greenhouse gases interactions with the plant-soil system in Arctic tundra
- Biological greenhouse gas sinks - Investigation of the methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) sink potential of Arctic soils
- Soils of the polar and subpolar zones
- Influence of land use change on the chemical and biological properties of soils
- Organic soil matter and carbon-iron coupling in permafrost soils

Photo: B. Diallo

Photo: R. Pistor

Photo: Thomas Pohl
Mo 14-16
- Social inequality in cities
- Processes of sub-urbanisation and re-urbanisation
- Population development and demographic change
- Mobility styles / transport behaviour
- Social area analysis and quantitative methods
- Seasonal and decadal climate prediction
- Development of data assimilation systems
- Simulations with Earth system models

Photo: Benjamin Poschlod

Photo: private

Photo: C. Radin

Photo: Nikhil Raghuvanshi
- Remote Sensing
- Climate Extremes
- Land Degradation Monitoring and Assessment

Photo: ar

Photo: Xavier Rodriguez
- Contribution to the development of the JSBACH model's soil processes modules
- Development and implementation of site-level models
- Simulation of soil-vegetation interactions using implicit and explicit methods
- Technical support to the working group of Prof. Christian Beer
- Theoretical Oceanography

Photo: UHH, RRZ/MCC, Mentz

Photo: Russel privat

Photo: Fatemeh Saba
- Remote sensing
- Forest disturbances
- Land use /land cover monitoring
- Machine/deep learning
- GIS analysis
- Drought monitoring
- Land degradation
- Theoretical Oceanography

Photo: UHH | SICSS

Photo: Kay Schäfer



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

Photo: privat

Photo: Cosima Schröer
- M. Sc. in Physical Geography, University of Bremen, 2020; Master thesis on CO2 fluxes in a heating experiment in Alaskan tundra
- Carbon decomposition processes in permafrost-affected soils
- Soil-microbe-plant interactions
- Process-orientated modeling

Photo: NIels Schwab
- vegetation and landscape ecology
- dendroecology
- Nepal
- e-learning
- Theoretical Oceanography
- Moor ecosystems in Patagonia
- Hood-based trace gas flux measurements
- Monitoring greenhouse gas emissions from displaced peat in highway construction (A26)

Photo: Simran Sekhri
- Land-use and land-management effects on soil water
- Sandy soils of the Kavango region in northern Namibia
- Ability of drought resistant plants to utilize deep water sources
- Vapor re-condensation and soil water balances

Photo: Nuno Serra

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-Relation
- Human-Animal Relations

Photo: Christina Steffens
- Project management and outreach in the project MOMENT
- Carbon cycle in soils
- Plant-soil-interactions
- Field methods, such as chamber measurements, installation of root exclusion zones (root trenching), root ingrowth cores

Photo: private
- Climate Modelling

Photo: Joseph Tamale
- Carbon dynamics in the Arctic
- Stable isotopes (C & N)
- Soil greenhouse gas fluxes
- Intact plant-soil systems (mesocosm)
- Climate chamber experiments

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

Photo: Tamatoa Tepuhiarii
- Nuclear impacts research
- Indigenous methodologies

Photo: lioba thaut
- Project coordinator SFB/TRR 181 "Energy transfers in Atmosphere and Ocean"

Photo: Melanie Kern
- Process-oriented modelling
- Biogeophysical soil processes
- Soils in permafrost regions
- Cryoturbation

Photo: Melanie Kern
- Process-oriented modelling
- Biogeophysical soil processes
- Soils in permafrost regions
- Cryoturbation

- Dynamical Downscaling in Complex Terrain
- Modeling Hydrological Processes
- Remote Sensing of Cryosphere
- Monsoon Dynamics at Extreme Margins
- Climate Change, Impacts and Society

Photo: Thomas Vandamme

Mondays 15:00 to 16:00. Please contact me for an appointment.
- Wave propagation in acoustic, elastic, and anisotropic media
- Multiparameter methods for seismic subsurface imaging

Photo: William Vargas
- Political economy of climate change
- Subaltern livelihoods and spatial relationships
- Ethnographic methods
- Project: sea4soCiety

Photo: Lizeth Vásconez Navas
- Master in Sustainable Resource Management, TU München, 2017, with specialization in soil and water resources and protection of forest ecosystems; master thesis: Xylem hydraulic adjustment of Castanea sativa, Pinus sylvestris and Quercus spp. seedlings to air warming and soil drought
- Monitoring and analyses of soil hydrological properties in hardwood floodplain forest soils
- Analysis of xylem sap flow velocity of floodplain hardwood species under different soil moisture regimes and meteorological conditions

Photo: Sergiy Vasylkevych

Photo: privat
- n.V.
- economic geography
- relations of power
- hegemony theory
- geographies of traditional medicine

Photo: Carolina Voigt
- greenhouse gas fluxes from permafrost-affected soils
- terrestrial biogeochemistry
- interactions between the carbon and nitrogen cycle in plant-soil systems in the Arctic

Photo: Malte von Szombathely

Photo: Han Wang
- Theoretical Oceanography
- Remote Sensing & Assimilation

Photo: Chen Wang

- Tuesday 14-15
- Project staff BSC-DAT
- Water and landscape ecology
- Ecosystem risks
- Environmental analysis
- Erosion and runoff modeling

Photo: Anke Wessels
- Social science climate adaptation and resilience research
- Transformative climate impact adaptation in coastal areas
- Integrated assessment of risk management options
- Transdisciplinary research
- Actor participation and participatory research methods
- Project: WAKOS

Photo: Simon Wett
- Experimental Oceanography

Photo: Sarah Wiesner

Photo: Evan Wilcox
- Hydrology of Arctic environments
- Snow-vegetation-permafrost interactions
- Hydrological applications of stable water isotopes

Photo: Jiajun Wu


Photo: Lin Yu
- Process-based modelling of soil organic matter stabilization and turnover
- Modelling soil microbial dynamics and effects of carbon-nutrient interactions on microbial life cycle
- Global modelling of carbon-climate feedback, particularly the impacts of SOC and soil properties
- ICON land development (QUINCY model)
- Phosphorus processes in terrestrial ecosystem and P cycle modeling
- Modelling Soil mineral Weathering

Photo: Marwaa Zazai
- Economic geography
- Labor and social affairs
- Inequality research
- Qualitative social research methods
Privatdozenten and contract university teachers

Photo: Laurens Bouwer
- Modeling of georisks
- Climate adaptation
- Climate services

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

- Theoretical Oceanography
Visiting scholars


Photo: Daniel Burt


Photo: Akos Horvath

- Sea Ice

Photo: Kaah Menang

Photo: Florian Römer

Photo: UHH | SICSS


Photo: UHH | SICSS
- AtMoDat
Technical, administrative and library staff

Photo: Andreas Bock

Photo: UHH, RRZ/MCC, Mentz
- Monday - Wednesday, Friday: 8.00 -12.00
- Library
- Series "Hamburg Soil Science Studies" [Hamburger Bodenkundliche Arbeiten]
- Internet presentation
- FIS input
- Monday until Friday from 8:00 a.m. until 2 p.m. by telephone, Email or in the office
- 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: Privat

Photo: UHH, RRZ/MCC, Mentz
- Mo - Fr 9 - 12 Uhr
- Office

Photo: UHH / Blender
- Sea Ice

Photo: Tobias Hoff

Photo: Susanne Jacobs
- International Exchange Programs
- Diversity in Education and Training

Photo: P. Laufing
- Experimental Oceanography

Photo: UHH / Senke
- Mon - Wed: 9 - 11 h, Tue - Wed 13 - 15 h (during lecture periods)
- Mon - Wed: 9 - 11 h (outside lecture periods)
- Exam- and coursemanagement
- Degree programs:
- BSc Geosciences
- MSc Geosciences
- Geography (Diplom)
- Geophysics (Diplom)
- Oceanography (Diplom)
- Mineralogy (Diplom)
- Meteorology (Diplom)
- 8.00 – 14.00 Uhr
- Secretary Climate Modelling


Photo: Iris Mendorff

Photo: Chiara Monforte
- Experimental Oceanography
- Secretariat Theoretical Oceanography

Photo: UHH / Senke

Photo: Nele Räther

Photo: scheliga, kaja
- Scientific project manager EPOC


Photo: Andreas Schiller

- Verteilte und ubiquitäre Systeme
- Hardwarenahe Programmierung

- Secretary Experimental Oceanographie


Photo: Anna Wagner

- Experimental Oceanography

- Experimental Oceanography
Student assistants

Photo: Meredith Avison
- Seasonal predictions
- Land-atmosphere interaction
- Data processing

- Experimental oceanography

Photo: Arnaz Dholakia
- AMOC variability
- Data processing
- Experimental Oceanography

Photo: Leonie Kalies

Photo: Leonie Kalies
- Experimental Oceanography
- Indonesian Throughflow (ITF)
- Indo-Pacific Climate Variability
- Data Processing

Photo: Yigit Uckan
Other


Photo: UHH/Ament


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

Photo: UHH/Baehr

Photo: UHH/Baehr
- - Klimamodellierung und -vorhersage
- - Interim-Leitung Experimentelle Ozeanographie

Photo: Louisa Bahr

Photo: Stefan Baltruschat

Photo: Sabine Beckmann

Photo: Sabine Beckmann


Photo: Daniel Birgel

Photo: UHH/Böhner



Photo: Leonard Borchert

Photo: Hartmut Borth

Photo: Lukas Brunner

Photo: Stella Buchwald

Photo: UHH/Bühler

Photo: Natalia Castillo

- Regional climate modeling (REMO)
- Extreme precipitation
- Land-Atmosphere Interactions
- Changes in Land Use

Photo: Arnaz Dholakia


Photo: Drautz, Stefanie
- Climate and Resilience Research with a focus on Coastal Areas/Islands
- Climate Risk Analysis and Vulnerability Assessment
- Transdisciplinary & Transformative Research
- Real-World Laboratory (RWL) & Living Lab (LL) Research
- Project: METAscales

Photo: Dirk Eggers

Photo: Oliver Eisermann

Photo: Andrej Ernst

Photo: William Foster

Photo: Louise Foster

Photo: Anja Frank

Photo: francesca galasso

Photo: M. Alejandra Gómez Correa

Photo: UHH/Hadziioannou
- Remote Sensing and Assimilation
- Remote Sensing & Assimilation


Photo: Steffen Hetzinger


Photo: Tatiana Ilyina


Photo: Susanne Jacobs


Photo: Malin Klein
- Physical geography
- Atmospheric microplastics
- Microplastics in terrestrial ecosystems

Photo: Nicola Krake

Photo: Lars Kutzbach

Photo: Niko Lahajnar

Photo: Frauke Langenberg

Photo: lin-zhiyong

Photo: Lindhorst, Sebastian

Photo: Tobias Linke

Photo: Yujia Liu

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

Photo: Thomas Lüdmann

Photo: UHH, RRZ/MCC, Mentz

Photo: UHH/Meissner

Photo: Luyi Miao

Photo: Vidur Mithal
- The production and governance of space
- Development and Postcolonial Studies
- Blackness, memory and space
- The politics of difference

Photo: Charly Moras


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: Annika Nolte

Photo: UHH/Peckmann


Photo: Benjamin Poschlod

- Project: Prodigy
- Soil and agroecosystems modeler
- Soil carbon stocks
- Effects of Climate Change on Agroecosystems

Photo: Nele Räther

Photo: Lukas Rieder

Photo: Alexander Rischmüller

Photo: Alexander Rischmüller

Photo: N. Robbins

Photo: Simon Rouwendaal

Photo: Schmid-Beurmann, Hinrich


Photo: Milena Schmiegel

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

Photo: Louisa Schneider
- Adaptation and resilience in climate change
- Cultural-related resilience and everyday practices
- Risk perception, risk and crisis communication
- Project: CUORE

- Climate Change
- Wetlands
- Urbane areas
- Flooding
- Latin America

Photo: Florian Scholz

Photo: Alexander Schütt
- MSc Earth Sciences, University of Hamburg, 2017; Master thesis on green house gase emissions from thawed permafrost-affected soils in the Lena delta, Sibiria
- Field experiments in prepared planting soil and urban soils at urban tree pits
- Monitoring of soil water availability in different soils in the city of Hamburg
- Development of young trees and their reaction to drought periods during the growing season
- Field study on reaction patterns of different climatic tree species and varieties to different water availability levels in prepared planting soils at Lorenz von Ehren nursery
- Investigation of prepared planting soil properties at in-situ conditions and in the laboratory

Photo: Gesa Schulz


Photo: Adam Shatwell

Photo: CICERO

Photo: Timo Spiegel

Photo: Laszlo Steinwärder
- Economic geography
- Global relations of inequality and dependency
- Foreign direct investments and profit transfer
- Peace and conflict research
- Political economy of violent conflicts
- 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)


Photo: Aiswarya Thazhissery-Pavanan

Photo: Aiswarya Thazhissery-Pavanan

Photo: Pierre-Antoine Tranchet

Photo: Yigit Uckan

Photo: filipa viegas

Photo: Malte von Szombathely

Photo: Maria-Elena Vorrath

- Process-based hydrological modeling
- Value-added analyses of increased model resolution
- Flash floods under Climate Change
- Theor. Oceanography

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

Photo: Yuhang Wu

Photo: xiaoyan xu


Photo: Güllistan Yarkin
- Racism, Racialized Systems and Everyday Racism
- Anti-racism and Everyday Anti-racism
- Turkey and Kurdistan
- Historical Sociology
- Political Economy

Photo: Huan Zhang

Photo: Qinyi Zhang

Photo: Mark Zindorf

Photo: Josipa Županić

Photo: Josipa Županić