Alumni
Former Senior Members
Christoph Schneider, Prof. Dr.
Ludger Gailing, Prof. Dr.
Roland Strausz, Prof. Dr.
Wolfgang Lucht, Prof. Dr.
Former Doctoral Researchers
Ana Buchadas (2018 – 2024)
Understanding deforestation frontiers in the world’s tropical dry woodlands
Anaïs Dalbai (neé Dresse)
Moving beyond natural resources as a source of conflict: Exploring the human-environment nexus of environmental peacebuilding
Anett Kuntosch (2015 – 2020)
Innovation Processes for Sustainable Innovation Pathways
Anna Frohn Pedersen (2018 – 2023)
In the Search for Gold: Hope, Power and Precarity in Artisanal and Small-scale Mining
Benjamin Bleyhl (2015 – 2019)
Fostering large carnivore recoveries: Persian leopards and their prey in the Caucasus
Beril Ocakli (2015 – 2022)
Extractive socionatures and resistance. The un/making of Kyrgyzstan’s gold rush
Bernhard Schauberger (2014 – 2018)
Improving crop models with respect to yield variability and climate extremes as a precondition for food security assessments
Cecilie Friis (2014 – 2017)
Land use change in a globalised world. Exploring the relevance of the telecoupling framework in the case of banana plantation expansion in Northern Laos
Christin Meyer (2014 – 2017)
Climate Change Impacts and Risk Management: Improving farm resilience through adaptation in the cropping-livestock zone of the Corangamite catchment in Victoria (Australia) with a Case Study of the ´Mount Hesse´ farm
Constanze Werner (2018 – 2023)
Modeling the global potential and limitations of biomass pyrolysis as a negative emission technology using a dynamic vegetation model
Emily Theokritoff (2020 – 2023)
Constrained and limited: understanding what makes adaptation challenging
Evidence Chinedu Enoguanbhor (2017 – 2021)
Integrating GIS and Remote Sensing for spatial and temporal assessments of Land Use/Cover Change: impacts of urbanization on urban land use dynamics in Abuja, Nigeria
Fabian Stenzel (2017 – 2021)
The implications of large-scale irrigated bioenergy plantations for future water use and water stress
Fanny Frick-Trzebitzky (2013 – 2017)
Riskscapes of flooding in a rapidly urbanising coastal region: The case of the Densu Delta, Accra, Ghana
Franz Schug (2018 – 2021)
A multi-dimensional characterization of settlements with Earth Observation data – Mapping patterns and dynamics of structures, material stocks and population
Franziska Schulz (2014 – 2017)
Analysis and pricing of energy related commodity derivatives
Frederick Dapilah (2016 – 2020)
Climate change adaptation in the Global South: navigating complexity to build adaptive capacity and resilience to climate change in northern Ghana
Hoseung Jung (2017 – 2023)
Uncertainty in water quality monitoring, data analysis and modelling – and a Buddhist contemplation on its suffering
Ingrid Schulte (2020 – 2023)
Reconciling Potential and Practice: Towards the Implementation of Nature-based Solutions for Climate Change Mitigation
Janine Hauer (2017 – 2024)
Transforming the ricescape. A case study from Burkina Faso
Jennifer Merten (2017 – 2021)
Agrarian change and hydro-social transformations. The socio-natural production of water, risk and inequality in Jambi province, Indonesia
Karen Lebek (2014 – 2022)
Exploring water insecurity in rural South Africa: A case study in the uMvoti River Catchment
Krystin Unverzagt (2017 – 2024)
Enactments of Knowledge and Social Order in Participatory Modelling: An Ethnographic Perspective on the Relationship between Science and Democracy
Laura Kehoe (2013 – 2016)
Of food and fauna: Investigating the relationship between global agricultural land-use and biodiversity
Lena Boysen (2013 – 2017)
Potentials, consequences and trade-offs of terrestrial carbon dioxide removal – strategies for climate engineering and their limitations
Letícia de Barros Viviana Hissa (2013 – 2020)
From deforestation to forest recovery: perspectives for the Amazon under the rule of the Brazilian Forest Code
Letícia Santos de Lima (2014 – 2017)
Effectiveness and Uncertainties of Payments for Watershed Services
Lukas Tank (2018 – 2021)
The Ethics of Carbon Pricing
Marina Andrijevic (2028 – 2021)
Barriers to adaptation and socio-economic development pathways
Mirjam Müller (2015 – 2018)
What’s Wrong With Sweatshop Labour: Exploitation in Global Relations of Production
Muluken Elias Adamseged (2014 – 2018)
Climate Change Adaptation, Institutions and Livelihood Dynamics in Rural Ethiopia
Nadine Jenny Shirin Schröder (2015 – 2024)
Order with and without design in polycentric governance systems: Exploring the role of independence and multiplicity in decision-making for WFD implementation processes
Nicole van Maanen (2020 – 2024)
Development of Scenarios for Sectoral Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change
Olivia Serdeczny (2018 – 2024)
Developing a blueprint for an international policy regime on eligibility for Loss and Damage finance under the Paris Agreement
Özge Can Doğmuş (2015 – 2020)
The on-paper hydropower boom: Learning from unsuccessful sustainable development projects in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Peter Pfleiderer (2018 – 2022)
Weather Extremes in a Warming Climate – Methodological Advancements to Identify Anthropogenically Forced Changes
Petra Burdejova (2014 – 2018)
Dynamic semiparametric factor models
Philippe Rufin (2015 – 2019)
A global to regional scale assessment of dam-induced agricultural change by means of remote sensing
Ruzana Liburkina (2016 – 2020)
Anthropologising Workaday Worlds along Two Food Supply Chains: An Ethnographic Inquiry into Responsibility Relations and Growth
Sara Minoli (2015 – 2020)
Managing phenology for agronomic adaptation of global cropping systems to climate change
Sascha Miguel Cornejo Puschner (2018 – 2023)
“Until nothing is left.” – Stories of extractivism and transformation
Tobias Herzfeld (2015 – 2022)
Understanding the role of agricultural management effects on global soil degradation utilizing biophysical modeling
Tomás Usón (2018 – 2023)
Remembering Future Disasters: Temporal Ecologies in the Peruvian Andes
Weng Wei (2016 – 2019)
Aerial river management for future water in the context of land use change in Amazonia
Xiaoxi Wang (2014 – 2019)
Political Economy and Land Use Dynamics: Quantifying Impacts of Land Governance on Deforestation, Food Prices and Trade Patterns
Former Postdoctoral Researchers & Research Staff
Akpona Okujeni, Dr.
Diego De Panis, Dr.
José R. Donoso, Dr.
Karla E. Pintado
Theresa Frommen, Dr.
Former Guest Researchers
Caroline Salomão
Daniel Durrant, Dr.
Delphine Deryng, Dr.
Guillermo Germán Joosten
Monika Mondal
Olivia María Adamson
Roberta Moraes Curan
Santos D. Chicas, Dr.
Former Administrative Staff
Anastasiia Polianskaia
Jeannette Latino
Kathrin Klementz
Kathrin Trommler
Klara Muranyi
Olof Krüger
Marisa Pettit
Sophia Kipp
Suhana E. Reddy
Thomas Wachtel
Former Student Assistants
Christoph Zyla
Edi Emilov
Elena Heim
Hannah Prawitz
Josephine Lauterbach
Larissa Tyroller
Nicolás Rojas
Niels Reisinger
Nina Dwerlkotte
Nora Milena Vehling
Palak Gupta
Pascal Kraft
Paul Schulze
Rhea Rennert
Serafina Noëlle Bischoff
Sophia Reitzug
Torben Voß
Vera Krause
Veronika Pinzger
Xiaoji Song