languages
de, en
Expertise
- Macroecology, modelling, community ecology and social-ecological system
- Influence of global change on biodiversity and ecosystem functions
- Relationship between biodiversity, nature's contributions to people and human well-being
- Ornithology
Function
- since 09/24 Scientific Director of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ)
- since 2010 W3 professor Goethe University Frankfurt/Main
- since 2023 Member of the “German Council for Sustainable Development“
- since 2023 Member of the Hochschulrat of the University of Kassel
- since 2022 Member of the Advisory Committee of the UN-Decade on Ecosystem Restoration
- since 2022 Speaker of “Fokusgruppe Biodiversität, Klima und Landnutzung” of Leopoldina
- ...
Expertise
- Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Change
- Biodiversity and Health
- Citizen Science (strategy and conceptual development, several citizen science projects)
- Science-society-policy interface
Function
- Head of Department Ecosystem Services at UFZ and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv)
- Professor of Ecosystem Services at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
- Lead author of IPBES and several ecosystem service assessments; Member of DFG German Committee for Sustainability Research (DKN/Future Earth); Member of Scientific Advisory Board Thünen Institute; Associate Editor of ‚People and Nature‘
Expertise
- Automated phytoplankton analysis as part of water quality assessment
- Automated bioaerosol (e.g. pollen, fungal spores) and particulate matter analysis as part of air quality assessment
- Pollen (Allergies and Pollination) as important part of plant-pollinator interactions
- o Connection between pollen, particulate matter and the appearance of allergies
- o Innovative, quick and exact methods to determine cell concentration
Function
- Working group leader and scientist at the Department for Physiological Diversity at the UFZ Leipzig and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv)
Expertise
- Butteflies: Species, developement, distribution, endangering
- Influence of landuse and climate change on butterflies
- Butterfly Monitoring Germany: Coordination of the citizen-science project
- Citizen Science: experience in setting up and running a Citizen Science project
- The value of Citizen Science data for science
Function
- Scientist at the Department for Conversation Biology at the UFZ in Halle
Expertise
- Long term ecosystem research and monitoring of insects and birds in agricultural dominated landscapes
- Pollinator monitoring
- Data management, FAIR Data
Function
- Scientist at the Department Community Ecology at the UFZ Halle
Expertise
- Population ecology of vertebrates
- Herpetology
- national and international nature and species conservation
- effects of climate change on vertebrates
- Statistics, programming, and modelling
- Detection dogs for species monitoring
Function
- PostDoc Scientist at the department of conversation biology at the UFZ Leipzig
- Working Group head WG Conservation oriented Population Ecology (COPE)
Expertise
- Influence of the characteristics of different species on interdependences between the species
- Developing, testing and applying biodiversity theory to understand the effects of global change on plant communities
- Ecosystem, theoretical and community ecology
- Ecological stoichiometry, niche theory and mechanisms of coexistence
Function
- Head of the Department of Physiological Diversity at the UFZ Leipzig and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv)
- Professor for Physiological Diversity at the Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
languages
de, en
Expertise
- Impact of agricultural soil management on soil functions
- Water and solute transport in soil
- Soil structure/function relations
- Modelling soil processes
- Non-invasive imaging and quantification of soil structure including temporal dynamics
Function
- Head of Department Soil System Science at the UFZ Halle
- Professor of „Soil Physics“ at Martin-Luther University Halle
- Leader of the BonaRes Centre for Soil Research
Expertise
- biological invasions, biogeography
- Effects of climate change and land-use on the biodiversity and the dynamics of ecosystems
- Anthropogenic vegetation changes
- Invasive species
- Concepts of nature conservation
Function
- Until 7/2022 Head of Research Unit „Ecosystems of the Future“ and Head of Department of Community Ecology; now retired
- Board Member of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (GfÖ)
- Board member, International Association for Ecology (INTECOL)
Expertise
- Impacts of climate change and global change on the immigration and spread of alien plant species
- Plant invasions and their effects on biodiversity
- Analysis of land use patterns, environmental parameters on the distribution of plant species on a macro-ecological scale
- Biological and ecological characteristics of invasive plants
- Patterns and processes of plant diversity in urban areas
- Vegetation Development of Alpine glacier forefields
- Curator of the "Database of Biological and Ecological Traits of the Flora of Germany (BiolFlor)"
Function
- Since 7/2022 Head of the Department of Community Ecology at the UFZ Halle
- Head of the Macroecology group at the UFZ Halle
- Professor for Macroecology at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Expertise
- Land Resource Management utilizing integrated simulation models
- Global analysis of biodiversity and landuse
- Effects of landuse on global agricultural markets
- Coordination of international research projects
Function
- Since 7/2022 Head of the Research Unit "Ecosystems of the Future"
- Head of the Department of Computational Landscape Ecology at the UFZ Leipzig
- Professor for Applied Landscape Ecology at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
- Spokesperson of the Helmholtz Research School ESCALATE (Ecosystem Services Under Changing Land-Use and Climate)
Expertise
- Above-belowground interactions, Rhizosphere interactions
- Litter decomposition
- Soil microflora
- Interactions in the rhizosphere
Function
- Scientist at the Department Community Ecology at the UFZ Halle
- Scientific coordinator oft he UFZ research station Bad Lauchstädt
- Scientific coordinator oft he „Global Change Experimental Facility“ (GCEF) in Bad Lauchstädt
Expertise
- Ecology of Insects in Cultural Landscapes
- Biodiversity, Land Use and Social-Ecological Systems
- Inter- and Transdisciplinary Cooperation and Projects
- Science-Society-Policy Interface
- Impacts of climate and land-use change on biodiversity
- Effects of reduced biodiversity on the resilience of ecosystems and humans (e.g. pest outbreaks, pandemics)
Function
- Head of the Department of Conversation Biology & Social-Ecological Systems at the UFZ Halle and Leipzig
- Professor of Ecology at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
- Coordinating Lead Author in the 5th Assessment Report of the IPCC
- Coordinating Lead Author in the IPBES pollination Assessment
- Review Board of DFG (German Research Foundation) for the field of Agriculture, forest science and animal medicine: Ecology of agricultural landscapes
- Member of the environmental expert panel of the German government
Expertise
- Influence of the European agricultural policy on biodiversity
- Analyzation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and its national implementation
- Development of the german biodiversity strategy
- Incentive systems for transformation of social-ecological systems
- International and economic contexts and cooperation in the field of sustainable land use
- Policy and governance of sustainable land use and biodiversity conservation in Latin America with focus on the Amazon and Peru
- Knowledge transfer and scientific advice through the World Biodiversity Council IPBES and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC
Function
- Deputy head of the Department for Conversation Biology and Social-Ecological Systems at the UFZ Leipzig
- Lead of the working group for the Governance of Biodiversity and Nature conservation
- Lead of the Horizon Europe-Project “Reinforcing Science-Policy Interfaces for integrated biodiversity and climate knowledge and policies (RESPIN)”
- Expert in the Intergovernmental Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
- Co-Lead of the Task-Force for the Governance of Nature and Biodiversity in the “Earth System Governance” network
Expertise
- - Structures of aquatic ecosystems
- - Chains of effects of hydrological extremes (Drought, flood)
- - Modeling of aquatic ecosystems
- - Analysis of environmental systems
- - Integrated management of water resources
- - Local, national and global perspective
- - Interface Science-Politics
Function
- - Head of Research Unit „Water resources and environment“
- - Head of Department of aquatic ecosystems and management at the UFZ Magdeburg
- - Professor of aquatic ecosystems and -management at the University of Dresden
- - Scientific advisor of the World Water Quality Alliance (WWQA)
Expertise
- Effects of human stressors and hydrological extremes on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
- Response of freshwater food webs to stressors across geographical scales
Function
- Scientist at the Department River Ecology at the UFZ Magdeburg
- Head of the research ‘Food web ecology’ at the UFZ
Expertise
- Groundwater-surface water interactions
- The dynamics of water and matter fluxes in catchments
- Simulation and prediction of matter and solute exports from the landscape
- Interplay between hydrologic dynamics and biogeochemical processes
- Landscape water balance
Function
- Head of the Department of Hydrogeology at the UFZ Leipzig
- Professor of Hydrological Modeling at the University of Bayreuth
- Speaker of the integration platform “Freshwater Resources” at UFZ
- Member of the „Groundwater Technical Committee“ of the American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Expertise
- Analysis and modelling of changes tot he regional water cycle
- Extreme hydrological events such as floods and drough
- Better models to predict future water availability in regions of water scarcity on the basis of less data
- Regional monitoring and process analysis
- Hydrology of (semi) arid regions
Function
- Head of the Department of Catchment Hydrology at the UFZ Halle
- Professor for Catchment Hydrology at the Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
- Spokesperson fort he „Water Scarcity“ integrated Project in the Helmholtz „Terrestrial Environment“ programme
Expertise
- data-driven analysis and modelling approaches to water quality and quantity on catchment scale
- Variability of nutrient and pollutant concentration in surface waters
- Travel time of water in catchments
- Water balance and groundwater recharge
- urban groundwater
Function
- Scientist at the Department Hydrogeology at the UFZ Leipzig
Expertise
- Influence of microorganisms on geochemical processes in lakes
- Interaction between bacteria and plastic
- Microplastic in lakes
Function
- Scientist at the Department Lake Research at the UFZ Magdeburg
- Group Leader Lake Microbiology
languages
de, en
Expertise
- Ecology of lake ecosystems
- Monitoring and modelling tools for water managers
- Developing management strategies for water resources management, particularly for reservoirs and lakes
- Threats to Lakes and resevoirs: eutrophication, algal blooms, oxygen depletion, pollution
- Climate change impacts on surface waters and aquatic ecosystems
Function
- Head of the Department of Lake Research at the UFZ Magdeburg
- Professor of Management and modeling of lakes at the University of Cottbus-Senftenberg
Expertise
- The effects of climate change on (ground)water resources
- interactions of ground- and surface water bodies (lakes, rivers and oceans)
- Localizing and characterizing of groundwater movement and reactions
- Conceptual and numerical modelling
- Expertise concerning quantity and quality of groundwater in (semi-)arid regions (Middle East) and Germany
Function
- Scientist at the Department Catchment Hydrology at the UFZ Leipzig
languages
de, en
Expertise
- Ecological status and protection of aquatic ecosystems, esp. running waters and their riparian zones
- Effects of stressors (e.g., climate change, morphological alterations, nutrients, toxicants) on inland waters
- Restoration of running water ecosystems
- Contribution of inland waters to biodiversity
- The functioning of running water ecosystems
Function
- Head of the Department of River Ecology at the UFZ Magdeburg
- Professor for Applied Ecology of Running Waters at the Dresden University of Technology
- President of the German Limnological Society (DGL)
Expertise
- Mixture toxicity assessment for complex environmental exposure
- Bioassays for toxicant identification at multiple contaminated sites
- Mode-of-action analysis for toxicants
- Pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic (PKPD) models to mechanistically describe concentration and time dependent toxicity
Function
- Until 9/2024 Head of Evaluation
- 7/2022 - 9/2024 Scientific Director of the UFZ
- Until 7/2022 Head of the UFZ-Research Unit „Chemicals in the Environment“ and Head of the Department Bioanalytical Ecotoxicology at the UFZ Leipzig
- Professor at the Institute for Environmental Research at the RWTH Aachen University
- Member of the scientific board „Nationaler Aktionsplan zur nachhaltigen Anwendung von Pflanzenschutzmitteln“
Expertise
- Chemical analysis for the purposes of identifying and quantifying organic compounds in water, sediments and biota
- Fractionation techniques for the separation of complex mixtures and their integration in biotesting methods in order to determine impact
- Understanding exposure in natural systems and ecotoxicological test systems
Function
- Since 7/2022 Head of the Research Unit "Chemicals in the Environment"
- Head of the Department of Effect-Directed Analysis at the UFZ Leipzig
- Professor for Biological Sciences at the Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main
Expertise
- Evaluation of potential (eco)toxicological effects of engineered nanomaterials
Function
- Scientist at the Department for Bioanalytical Ecotoxicology at the UFZ Leipzig
Expertise
- Identification of Chemicals which cause environmental risks
- Methods for initial hazard screening and risk assessment of pharmaceuticals, pesticides, disinfection by-products and persistent organic pollutants with an emphasis on mixtures
- Closing the gap between exposure and impact assessment through a better understanding and modeling of the toxicokinetic and toxicodynamic processes
- Development of tools for passive sampling as well as dosing and high throughput bioanalytical tools for environmental monitoring
Function
- Head of the Department of Cell Toxicology
- Professor of Environmental Toxicology at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen
- Lecturer at ETH Zürich
- Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland and adjunct professor at Griffith University
- Member of the German Science Council
- Member of the Board of Reviewing Editors (BORE) at Science
Expertise
- physical and chemical properties of modern organic chemicals (pesticides, pharmaceuticals)
- understanding and modelling chemicals in organisms (especially uptake, distribution and elimination)
- Ionisable Chemicals
- Performance of sniffer dogs and their importance in court hearings
Function
- Head of the Department of Analytical Environmental Chemistry
- Professor for Analytical Environmental Chemistry at the Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
- Member of the Advisory Board for the „Environmental Science and Technology“ journal
Expertise
- Elucidating the effects caused by pollutants which enter the environment and disrupt ecosystems and affect human health using bioinformatics
- Development of new bioinformatics, systems biology, and data science procedures and integration into the methodological approaches of environmental health research
- Development of predictive methods using artificial intelligence
Function
- Head of the Department of Computational Biology at the UFZ Leipzig
- Professor for Computational Biology at the University of Leipzig
Expertise
- Influence of environmental exposures on the modulation of immune responses and the development of allergic diseases in prospective birth cohort studies
- Regulation of immune cell activity by environmental contaminants with focus on mucosal-associated invariant T cells
- Impact of disturbed T cell function on the development of health outcomes
Function
- Scientist and group leader at the Department Environmental immunology at the UFZ Leipzig
- PI of the LINA (Lifestyle and environmental factors and their Influence on Newborns Allergy risk) study
languages
de, en
Expertise
- Mixtures of chemicals in the environment
- Environmental weathering and fate of plastics
- Tools to assess environmental and human health
Function
- Head of the Department Exposure Science at the UFZ Leipzig
- Professor for Exposome Analytics at the RWTH Aachen
Expertise
- Long-term effects of multiple stress from toxicants and other stressors in ecosystems
- Development of bioindicators fort he display of pollution and ecological effects in rivers
- Development of models for risk assessment
Function
- Head of the Department System-Ecotoxicology at the UFZ Leipzig
- Professor for System-Ecotoxicology at the Technical University Aachen
Expertise
- Influence of environmental chemicals on the function of cells of the innate immune system, especially mast cells
- Influence of chemical pollutants / mast cells on relevant pregnancy-associated processes, with focus on physiological transformation of spiral arteries
- Role of environmental chemicals as risk factors in the development of mast cell-associated diseases such as allergies or vascular diseases
- Knowledge transfer: systematic and target group specific
Function
- Scientist at the Department Environmental Immunology at the UFZ Leipzig
Expertise
- - The role of environmental pollutants as risk factors for immune diseases (for example asthma or arthritis), overweight or behavioural problems with a particular focus on the impact of maternal exposure to environmental pollutants and the disease development in the offspring
Function
- Scientist and Deputy Head of Department at the Department for Environmental Immunology at the UFZ Leipzig
Expertise
- Development of analytical techniques for trace contaminants in water, soils and biota
- Tracking trace substances in natural and technical systems (incl. water cycle)
- Understanding transformation processes in the environmental and in biota
Function
- Head of the Department of Analytical Chemistry at the UFZ Leipzig
- Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Leipzig
- Member of the Board of the German Water Chemistry Society
Expertise
- Effects of pre- and perinatal exposure to environmental chemicals on pregnancy/birth and the health development of the offspring
- Disruption of the immunological and endocrine balance by environmental chemicals
- Use of in-vitro and in-vivo models to identify and characterize environmental risk factors in disease development
Function
- Senior Scientist and Deputy Head of Department of Environmental Immunology at the UFZ Leipzig
- Head of the Laboratories of the Environmental Immunology in the Saxonian Incubator for Clinical Translation (SIKT)
Expertise
- Alternative testing systems in Toxicology
- Use of zebrafish embryo model for an integrative mechanism-linked assessment of chemical effects and bioanalytical assessment of environmental samples
- Adverse outcome pathways (AOP)
- Data analysis automation workflow, particularly for zebrafish embryo assays
Function
- Scientist at and acting head of the Department for Bioanalytical Ecotoxicology at the UFZ Leipzig
Expertise
- Influence of environmental factors (long-lasting chemicals and viruses) on placenta functionality and development of pregnancy-associated disorders
- Understanding the role of placenta in developmental programming of chronic disorders
- Establishment of 3D cell culture models of placenta as a an alternative method to assess chemical safety in pregnancy
Function
- Scientist at the Department Environmental Immunology at the UFZ Leipzig
Expertise
- Adaptations of aquatic organisms to environmental stress
- Cellular mechanisms that control the uptake of chemicals and their interactions with environmental contaminants
- Establishing experimental tests to investigate the interactions of environmental chemicals with cellular defensive mechanisms
Function
- Scientist at the Department for Bioanalytical Ecotoxology at the UFZ Leipzig
Expertise
- Cellular response mechanisms towards environmental pollutants with a focus on molecular pathways
- Systems Biology based approaches using proteomic and metabolomic techniques in cells, tissue and on the systemic level
- Characterisation of environmental exposure scenarios
- Analysis of structure and functions of microbial communities by proteomic and metabolomic techniques
- Development of mass spectrometry based methods for quantitative and qualitative meta-proteomics of bacteria
Function
- Head of the Department of Molecular System Biology at the UFZ in Leipzig
- Professor for Functional Proteome Analytics at the University of Leipzig
Expertise
- Reproductive immunology
- Hormone caused changes of Immune cells
- Effects of Environmental chemicals on the health of mother and fetus
Function
- Head of the Department of Environmental Immunulogy at the UFZ Leipzig
- Professor for paediatric environmental epidemiology/immunology at the University of Leipzig
Expertise
- anaerobic microbial processes to develop biotechnological applications from basic understanding to pilot scale
- Molecular aspects
Function
- Co-Head of the Department of Environmental Biotechnology at the UFZ Leipzig
- Professor for Geobiotechnolgy at the Institute for Biotechnology of the TU Berlin
Expertise
- Application of surface adhered microbes
- Use of microbial photosynthesis for the production of value added compounds and energy carriers using CO2, sunlight and water
- Efficient and sustainable production of white hydrogen as a technology complementing green hydrogen production via renewable energy driven electrolysis
Function
- Head of the research group ’Catalytic Biofilms’ at the Department Environmental Microbiology, UFZ Leipzig
- Professor for Technology of productive Biofilms at the Technical University Dresden
- Chairwoman of the Scientific- technical Council of the UFZ
Expertise
- - Ecology and ecophysiology of microbial communities involved in ecosystem services such as the conversion of pollutants and biomass in soil, water and technical systems
- - Microbiological diversity in both technical and natural environments
- - design of biotechnological procedures which are based on complex microbiale communities and exploit ecological principles
- - SARS-CoV-2 waste water monitoring
Function
- - Head of the UFZ Research Unit „Environmental Engineering and Biotechnology“
- - Head of the Department „Environmental Microbiology“ at UFZ Leipzig
- - Professor for Environmental Microbiology at the University of Leipzig
- - Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max-Planck-Institute for Marine Microbiology
languages
de, en
Expertise
- Combination of electrochemistry and microbiological methods
- Energy from waste water
- Developement of new electrobiotechnological processes
- Power-to-chemicals and power-to-fuels
- Electroactive microorganisms
- Sustainable electroorganic synthesis
Function
- Group leader at the Department for Environmental Microbiology at the UFZ Leipzig
- Professor for Electrobiotechnology at Leipzig University
- President of the International Society for Microbial Electrochemistry and Technology
Expertise
- Elucidation and application of fundamental mechanisms of bacterial stress tolerance and establishment of novel Pseudomonads as a biocatalytic platform
- Degradation of xenobiotic compounds such as herbicides in the presence of naturally occuring environmental conditions
- Adaptation of bacteria to toxic organic solvents to allow the performance of two-liquid-phase biotransformations for the econimically sound production of fine chemicals
- Development of lipids as biomarkers
- Application of isotope techniques to investigate the interactions of plants with microbes in contaminated soils
- Investigation of bacterial adaptation to cellular stress on the level of membranes, surface properties, and energetics. Bioengineering of contaminated sites to accelerate bioremediation
Function
- Scientist at the Department for Environmental Microbiology at the UFZ Leipzig
- Head of the group “Microbial Processes”
Expertise
- Analysis of microbial compound turnover in complex environments
- Microbial degradation potentials and in situ activity
- Metabolic flow in environmental systems
- Chemical and microbial ecology in soils, sediments, and groundwater
Function
- Co-head of the Department of Environmental Biology at the UFZ Leipzig
- Professor of Microbiology at the University Leipzig
Expertise
- Diversity, Evolution, taxonomy and functions of viruses in environmental systems
- SARS-CoV2 Monitoring in Sewage
Function
- Scientist at the Department for Microbiology at the UFZ Leipzig
Expertise
- Developement of new processes and materials for the removal of pollutants from water, with an emphasis on in situ
- Combination of sorptive enrichment and chemical pollutant degradation
- Environmental catalysis
- Development of new and optimization of existing technological methods for removal of halogenated pollutants from water (from chlorinated solvents to per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances - PFAS)
Function
- Acting Head of the Department of Environmental Engineering at the UFZ Leipzig
Expertise
- The role of biogeochemical processes in the functionality of sustainably managed ecosystems
- Environmental monitoring (claims, historical contamination, remedial work on historical contamination)
- Use of high-resolution imaging techniques (SIMS) in combination with stable isotope and chemical analytics as indicators of biogeochemical processes
- Biogeochemistry of Heat and Energy storage in the subsurface
Function
- Head of the Department of Isotope Biogeochemistry at the UFZ Leipzig
- Head of the technology platform “ProVIS - Centre for Chemical Microscopy“ at the UFZ” for the visualisation of biochemical processes at cellular level
Expertise
- Development of resource-efficient urban city districts in the context of climate-resilient urban planning
- Development and implementation of multifunctional BlueGreen water infrastructures
- Decentral wastewater treatment and management
- Implementation research to optimize the water sector in developing and emerging countries in water-scarce regions
- Integrated (waste) water resource management
Function
- Head of the Centre for Environmental Biotechnology at the UFZ Leipzig
- Honorary Professor for Integrated Water Resources Management at Leipzig University of Applied Sciences
- Appointed member of the federal advisory board of DWA, speaker of the working group “Decentralized Wastewater Systems for Emerging and Developing Countries”
- Vice Chairman oft The Board at the Training and Demonstration Centre for Decentralized Sewage Treatment (BDZ e.V.)
- Appointed member of the National Implementation Committee for Effective Decentralized Wastewater Management of Jordan
Expertise
- Development and use of microorganisms as living biocatalysts
- Catalytic biofilms
- Solar materials
- Systems biotechnology
- Integrated bioprocess development
Function
- Head of the Department of Solar Materials at the UFZ Leipzig
- Professor for Biotechnology at the University of Leipzig
Expertise
- Ecology and bioavailability of contaminant biotransformation
- Subsurface transport of microorganisms
- Mycosphere ecology and mycoremediation
- fungal bacterial interactions
- Prediction of soil microbial pesticide degradation potential at field scale:
- Electrokinetics and electrobioremediation
Function
- Head of group and deputy head of department at the Department for Environmental Microbiology at the UFZ Leipzig
- Chair of the UFZ Integration Platform 'Tapping nature's potential for sustainable production and a healthy environment'
Expertise
- Forest structure and its implications for carbon ballance, diversity and sensitivity against climate change of forest systems.
- Forest models
- Remote sensing: linking remote sensing and ecological modelling
- Agent-based models
Function
- Scientist at the Department Ecological Modelling at the UFZ Leipzig
Expertise
- Design and generation of spatially distributed multiscale forecasting models, their parametrisation and the evaluation of model and parameter uncertainties on model forecasts
- Multi Scale Terrestrial Systems
- Modelling Flow and Transport in Surface- and Subsurface Hydrology
- Multiscale Modelling, Stochastic Modelling and Geostatistics
Function
- Head of the UFZ Research Unit „Smart Models and Monitoring“
- Head of the Department of Computational Hydrosystems at the UFZ Leipzig
- Professor for Mathematical Hydrology at the University of Potsdam
- Member of the steering group of the "Center for Advanced System Understanding CASUS"
languages
de, en, fr
Expertise
- Exploring dynamics of socio-environmental resource systems under uncertainty
- Effects of agri-environmental policy instruments and for coping with climate risk on socio-environmental systems
- Adequate representation of human behaviour in land-use models
Function
- Scientist at the Department Ecological Modelling at the UFZ Leipzig
- Professorship for Modelling of Human-Environment Systems at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg
- Head of working group POLISES (POLicy Instruments and Socio-Environmental Systems under global change)
Expertise
- Effects of global change and climate change on vegetation using remotely sensed information via land-use classification / land-use change, deriving vegetation dynamics (phenology) and land-use intensity in grasslands
- Monitoring forest condition at the national level
Function
- Scientist at the Department Remote Sensing at the UFZ Leipzig
- Head of working group Land-Cover & Dynamics (LACY) at the UFZ
Expertise
- Ecological models to spread harmful organisms in animal populations
Function
- Scientist at the Department Ecological Modelling at the UFZ Leipzig
- Head of the working Project group Ecological epidemiology Epidemiology (EcoEpi) at the UFZ
- Member of the Plant Health Panel Commission Animal welfare of t he European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
Expertise
- Reactions of the forests of the future on climate change
- Predictions on the future developement of forests
Function
- Scientist at the Department Ecological Modelling at the UFZ Leipzig
Expertise
- Environmental impacts of resource exploitation activities of conventional and unconventional hydrocarbons, solid energy and mineral resources.
- NORM substances; radiochemistry and radiation protection
- Procedures for indoor radon protection
- Heat storage and remediation of urban groundwater bodies
- Water resource management of subtropical areas
Function
- Scientist at the Department Environmental Informatics at the UFZ Leipzig
- Honorary Professor at the University of Tübingen
- Member of the scientific-technical board “Water management” at LMBV and a member of the German Academy of Geosciences and Geotechnologies
- Member of the Expert commission „Fracking“
Expertise
- Development of mathematical and simulation models
- Modelling of ecological and social-ecological systems
- Assessment of impacts of climate and land use change on the structure, dynamics, functions, and stability properties of terrestrial, aquatic and microbial systems
- Assessment of impacts of social and institutional change on human-nature-systems
Function
- Head of the Department of Ecological Modelling at the UFZ Leipzig
- Professor for Ecological Modelling at the University of Osnabrück and Member of the Management Board of the Institute for Environmental Systems Research at UOS
- Co-Chair of the Integration Platform ‘Robust Pictures of the Future’ at the UFZ within the POFIV Helmholtz Program ‘Changing Earth – Sustaining our Future’
- Full Member of the iDiv – German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research Halle-Jena-Leipzig
- Co-Chair of the sDiv Board and Member of the Science Strategy Board of iDiv
- Member of the Selection Panel of the PhD Fellowship Program of the DBU (Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt)
- Member of the Executive Committee of the Open Modeling Foundation (OMF of Future Earth)
languages
de, en, es
Expertise
- Regional to global Hydrological modeling
- Monitoring and forecasting of droughts and floods (HS2S, ULYSSES)
- Lead developer of the mHM model
- Co-developer of the UFZ Drought Monitor (Germany)
- Climate predictions of hydro-meteorological extremes
Function
- Deputy head of the Department of Computational Hydrosystems (CHS) at the UFZ Leipzig
- Group leader of the Stochastic and Land Surface Hydrology Group at CHS
- Professor for Data Science and Hydrology at the University of Potsdam
Expertise
- Drought monitoring
- Regional climate change, impact analysis and adaption
- Hydrological modelling
- Dialogue with decision makers
Function
- Scientist at the Department „Computational Hydrosystems“ at UFZ Leipzig
- Head of Climate Office for Central Germany
- Head of German Drought Monitor
Expertise
- Estimation of high-resolution land surface water and energy fluxes from satellite observations
- Investigation of hydrological and climatic extremes as well as their impacts on ecosystems
- Assimilation of remote sensing data into climate and land surface process models
- Quantification of climate change impact on water resources
Function
- Head of the Department of Remote Sensing at the UFZ in Leipzig
- Professor for Hydrology and Remote Sensing at the University of Leipzig
Expertise
- Development and evaluation of measurement and monitoring methods from geophysics, hydrogeology and geotechnology for the efficient, high-resolution investigation of the subsurface
- Remote sensing methods and sensor networks
Function
- Head of the Department of Monitoring and Exploration Technology at the UFZ Leipzig
- Professor for Environmental and Engineering Geophysics at the University of Tübingen
Expertise
- Understanding and modeling of compound climate and weather events
- Prediction of heat waves, storms, droughts and their effects
Function
- Head of the Department Compound Environmental Risks (CER) at the UFZ Leipzig
- Professor (W3) for Data Analytics in Hydro Sciences, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, TU Dresden
Expertise
- Economic analysis of agri-environmental policy
- Economic nonmarket valuation of biodiversity and ecosystem services
- Agent-based modelling
Function
- Scientist at the Department Economics at the UFZ Leipzig
- Head (jointly with UFZ-scientist Dr. Andrea Kaim) of junior research group AgriScape at the UFZ
languages
de, en
Expertise
- Perception of environmental risks, including socio-psychological as well as institutional, economic-political and cultural factors
- Assessment of environmental risks (e.g. flooding, droughts) with a focus on social vulnerability and community resilience
- Risk management
Function
- Scientist at the Department Urban and Environmental Sociology at the UFZ Leipzig
- Professor for Environmental Risks and Sustainability at the University of Potsdam
- Working Group Leader "Environmental Risks and Extreme Events" at the UFZ
Expertise
- Processes at the interface between science and policy at a national an international level in the fields of climate change, biodiversity, ecosystem services and sustainable development
- Climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies (nature-based solutions)
- Economics of biodiversity and ecosystem services
- Sustainability reporting by businesses and national level (related to accounting of biodiversity and ecosystem services)
- Nature-based options for mitigation of carbon emissions and carbon storage (negative emissions)
- Net-zero strategies
Function
- Scientist at the Department for Environment and Society at the UFZ Leipzig
Expertise
- Economic key issues of climate change / environmental impacts of energy transition
- Instruments for environmental, climate & sustainability policies
- Water resources management, especially water-related prices and charges
Function
- Head of the Department Economics at the UFZ Leipzig
- Professor for Economics at the University of Leipzig and director of the Institute for Infrastructure and Resources Management
- Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
- Publicly Certified Expert (Chamber of Commerce and Industry Frankfurt am Main) for Cost Accounting of Public Enterprises
Expertise
- Sociological analysis of the energy transition, especially wind and geothermal heat
- Ignorance, uncertainty, and risk
- Public awareness and perceptions of environmental innovation
Function
- Head of the Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology
- Professor of Environmental Sociology at the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena
languages
de, en
Expertise
- Economic evaluation of ecosystem services
- Management of environmental resources with environmental policy instruments
Function
- Head of the UFZ Research Unit „Environment & Society“
- Head of the Department of Economics at the UFZ Leipzig
- Professor for Economics, especially Environmental Economics at the Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
- Chairman of the Federal Environment Agency’s Soil Protection Commission (KBU) Chairman of the Academy for Regional Development in the Leibniz Association - ARL
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of ZALF
- Member oft he Commission for social and ecological issues oft he German’s Bishop Conference
Expertise
- Interdependencies between natural, social and built environment
- Spatial consequences of demographic change
- Urban vulnerability and climate change
- Potentials and challenges of large housing estates
- International comparative case studies about urban development and socio-spatial differentiation
Function
- Head of the Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology till 31.3.2022
- Honorary Professor for Social Science at the University of Leipzig
- Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) Urban Europe till 31.12.2021
- Chairwoman of the Leipzig Geographical Association
Expertise
- European and national environmental law focusing on the legislation governing water, nature conservation, industrial pollutions, hazardous substances
- Environmental constitutional law
- Renewable energy law
- Urban planning law; spatial planning law
Function
- Head of the Department of Environmental an Planning Law at the UFZ Leipzig
- Professor for Environmental Law at the Faculty of law at the University of Leipzig
- Member of the Board at the Institute for Environmental and Planning Law
- Member of the German Advisory Council on the Environment (SRU)
Expertise
- Environmental discourse analysis
- Discursive agency, circular economy and bioeconomy
- Transnational business gouvernance
- Combining social and environmental science with expertise from policy, practice and the wider public
Function
- Head of the Department of Environmental Politics at the UFZ in Leipzig
- Professor for Environmental Politics at the Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena
languages
de, en
Expertise
- Economic evaluation of instruments for environmental, climate and energy policy
- Renewable energies, focus on wind energy
- Conflicts in energy transition
- Political strategies to solve conflicts in energy transition
Function
- Scientist at the Department Economics at the UFZ Leipzig
- Assistant Professor for Environmental and Energy Economics at the UFZ Leipzig
Expertise
- Sustainable developement of cities and urban transformation
- Social scientific research in urban ecology
- Concepts and theories for cities
- Urban Governence, social movements and protest
Function
- Scientist at the Department Urban and Environmental Sociology at the UFZ Leipzig
- Honorary Professor at the UFZ Leipzig
Expertise
- Political advice in climate protection
- Economic aspects of climate adaptation
- Management of natural hazards
- Environmental liability and insurance
Function
- Scientist at the Department Economics at the UFZ Leipzig
- Professor for international environmental economics at the Viadrina University Frankfurt (Oder)
Expertise
- Nature conservation and agri-environmental law
- Law of soil conservation
- Law on water management
- Environmental planning law
- Tax legislation and financial law
Function
- Scientist at the Department of Environmental and Planning Law
- Together with Julian Rode Head of IP-TB6 Projekt 6.1 „Governing transformations towards sustainable agrifood systems“
Expertise
- Concepts for a sustainable, decentralised energy supply system
- Interactions between sources of renewable energy, technical options for using them and understanding how these align with the environment and society
- Simulation
- Sustainable production and use of biomass
Function
- Head of the Department of Bioenergy at the UFZ in Leipzig
- Head of the Bioenergy Systems Department at the German Biomass Research Centre (DBFZ) in Leipzig
- Professor for Bioenergy Systems at the University of Leipzig
- Member of the Bioeconomy Council (since 2012)
- Member of the Energy Council for Saxony