We are all part of the ZEU
- ZEU Team, as of August 2026
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Climate & Environment
Land Use
One Health
The research activities of the ZEU are based on thematic/methodological priorities. These represent the research interests of the members of the ZEU and are defined by them. Each research focus involves two graduate members of the ZEU from different disciplines. As a rule, a graduate member may be involved in more than one focus area.
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Laura Aguilar
Student Assistant
Prof. Christian Albrecht
Department of Animal Ecology & Systematics (JLU)
Dr. Aliya Assubayeva
Assistant Professor at Nazarbayaev University, Astana (Kazhakstan)
Julio Alvarez
Doctoral Candidate
Scholarship holder
Lorine Behr
ZEU Doctoral Candidat
Prof. Helmut Breitmeier
Department of Political Science (JLU)
Prof. Lutz Breuer
Chair of Landscape, Water and Biogeochemical Cycles (JLU)
Dr. Alicia Correa
Gayathry Damarla
Dr. Stéphanie Domptail
Professorship of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Policy (JLU)
Prof. i. R. Michael Düren
Retired professor
Prof. Rolf-Alexander Düring
Professorship of Soil
Recources (JLU)
Gulnara Djunushalieva
Kyrgyz Scientists' Community,
Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan)Rupesh Dhyani
Institute of Geography
(JLU)
'Yanet Díaz, PhD
ZEU Research Associate
Begaiym Emileva
Project Research Associate
Alvin John Felipe
Land Use Systems with Focus on Agroforestry (JLU)
Kalina Fonseca
Associate professor
Universidad Técnica de Cotopaxi (Ecuador)Prof. Andreas Gattinger
Head of the Professorship
of Organic Farming (JLU)Solomon Gebrehiwot, PhD
Water and Land Resource Centre, Adis Abeba (Ethiopia)
María Gracia Glas de Temel
Chair of International Food and Nutrition Security (JLU)
Jorge Gómez-Paredes, PhD
Novia University of Applied Sciences, Finland
Dr. André Große-Stoltenberg
Division of Landscape Ecology and Landscape Planning (JLU)
Prof. i.R. Roland Herrmann
Retired professor
Prof. Christian Herzig
Chair of Business Administration in the Food Economy and Agribusiness
Dr. Matthias Höher
Administration
Irina Hopp
ZEU Doctoral Candidate
Iuliia Horn
Administration
Dr. Michael Hübler
Professorship of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Policy (JLU)
Prof. Suzanne Jacobs
Chair of Land Use Systems with Focus on Agroforestry (JLU)
Prof. Till Kleinebecker
Division of Landscape Ecology and Landscape Planning (JLU)
Prof. Andreas Klinke
Memorial University of Newfoundland (Canada)
Alisher Kosimov
ZEU Doctoral Candidate
Katrin Lenz
Student Assistant
Prof. Ingrid-Ute Leonhäuser
Retired professor
Prof. Iván Lizarazo
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá
Prof. Min Liu
Guest Professor
Jalal Mansouri
Doctoral Candidate
Scholarship holderDr. Janne Mende
Researcher at Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
Dr. Pavlina Miteva-Bölter
ZEU Academic Manager
Dr. Muhammad Muzammil
Assistant Executive Engineer (University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan)
Brian Daniel Ongia
Institute of Agronomy and Crop Physiology
Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU)Prof. Martin Petrick
Head of the Professorship of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Policy (JLU)
Prof. Stefan Peters
Chair of Peace Studies
(JLU)
Prof. Alexander Prishchepov
Aarhus University
(Denmark)Prof. Petra Quillfeldt
Behavioral Ecology and Ecophysiology
(JLU)Dr. Sarah Robinson
Freelancer
Marcellin Rwibutso
Department of Animal Ecology & Systematics (JLU)
Rahat Sabyrbekov, PhD
OSCE Academy in Bishkek
(Kyrgyzstan)Dr. Archana R. Sathyan
Kerala Agricultural University, India
Prof. em. Peter Schmidt
Retired professor
Prof. Lea Schneider
Climate-environment-human
relationships (JLU)
Prof. Sandra Schwindenhammer
Professorship in Social Science Sustainability Research with a focus on Sustainable Food Systems (JLU)
Nagima Shukurbekova
Doctoral Candidate
Palwinder Singh
Student assistant
Katrin Strobehn
ZEU Doctoral Candidate
Adriana Sumba Naula
Doctoral Candidate
Scholarship holderProf. Ramona Teuber
Head of the Professorship of Agricultural and Food Market Analysis (JLU)
Mathias Tesfaye
Doctoral Candidate
Scholarship holderMunguntuul Ulziibaatar
Doctoral Candidate
Scholarship holder
Prof. Rainer Waldhardt
Division of Landscape Ecology and Landscape Planning (JLU)
Dr. Eli Wortmann-Kolundzija
Freelancer
Dr. Björn Weeser
ZEU Academic Manager
Dr. Tabo Zadoki
Chair of Landscape, Water and Biogeochemical Cycles (JLU)
- ZEU Office
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Zentrum für internationale Entwicklungs- und Umweltforschung (ZEU)
Center for international Development and Environmental Research (ZEU)Senckenbergstraße 3
D - 35390 Giessen
The ZEU is situated in the "Zeughaus", one of the few remaining valuable historic buildings in the city of Gießen. Originally, the elongated building in the style of the German Renaissance was a functional military building, which even to this day is called “Zeughaus”. The arsenal was erected at right angles to the Neue Schloss (New Castle) from 1586-90. The Neue Schloss itself had been built as a smaller but representative residence half a century before.
The ensemble surrounding the courtyard was completed by a stable and the revenue office. Senckenbergstraße, today’s address of the Neue Schloss, was only built around 1900, long after the ramparts had been demolished.
The symmetrical “Zeughaus” with its mighty saddleback roof and high gables with their typical scrollwork and pellets still impresses today. The little annexe next to the main portal hails from the university’s founding days in 1609: it used to be the detention room, in which rowdy and drunk students were incarcerated.
This monumental building also burned out after the bombing in December 1944. During reconstruction from 1960-1961, the state of Hesse preserved the old outline und reconstructed the facade. Windows and rooms were modernised according to their new use. Both the Neue Schloss and the Zeughaus were conveyed into the ownership of the JLU in 1957.Administration
Academic Researchers
Dr. Matthias Höher
Iuliia Horn
- ZEU Location
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Location Plan
360° Zeugaus Building
