We are all part of the ZEU
- ZEU Team, as of November 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
Prof. Christian Albrecht
Julio Alvarez
Dr. Aliya Assubayeva
Student Assistant Department of Animal Ecology & Systematics (JLU) Doctoral Candidate
Scholarship holderAssistant Professor at Nazarbayaev University, Astana (Kazhakstan) 
Lorine Behr
Prof. Helmut Breitmeier
Prof. Lutz Breuer
Dr. Alicia Correa
ZEU Doctoral Candidate Department of Political Science (JLU) Chair of Landscape, Water and Biogeochemical Cycles (JLU) ZEU Research Associate
Gayathry Damarla
Dr. Stéphanie Domptail
Prof. i. R. Michael Düren
Prof. Rolf-Alexander Düring
Doctoral Candidate
Scholarship holderProfessorship of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Policy (JLU)
Retired professor
Professorship of Soil
Recources (JLU)
Rupesh Dhyani
Yanet Díaz, PhD
Gulnara Djunushalieva
Dr. Begaiym Emileva
Institute of Geography
(JLU)ZEU Research Associate
Kyrgyz Scientists' Community,
Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan)Project Research Associate
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Marie Claire Dusabe
Alvin John Felipe
Kalina Fonseca
Prof. Andreas Gattinger
Freshwater Ecologist (PhD)
Land Use Systems with Focus on Agroforestry (JLU)
Associate professor
Universidad Técnica de CotopaxiHead of the Professorship
of Organic Farming (JLU)
Solomon Gebrehiwot, PhD
Jorge Gómez-Paredes, PhD
Dr. André Große-Stoltenberg
Prof. i.R. Roland Herrmann
Water and Land Resource Centre, Adis Abeba (Ethiopia) Novia University of Applied Sciences, Finland Division of Landscape Ecology and Landscape Planning (JLU) Retired professor 
Prof. Christian Herzig
Irina Hopp
Iuliia Horn
Prof. Michael Hübler
Chair of Business Administration in the Food Economy and Agribusiness ZEU Doctoral Candidate Administration Professorship of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Policy (JLU) 
Prof. Suzanne Jacobs
Sakeus Kadhikwa
Prof. Till Kleinebecker
Prof. Andreas Klinke
Chair of Land Use Systems with Focus on Agroforestry (JLU) Chair of Land Use Systems with Focus on Agroforestry (JLU) Division of Landscape Ecology and Landscape Planning (JLU) Memorial University of Newfoundland (Canada) 
Alisher Kosimov
Katrin Lenz
Prof. Ingrid-Ute Leonhäuser
Prof. Iván Lizarazo
ZEU Doctoral Candidate Student Assistant Retired professor Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá 
Prof. Min Liu
Jalal Mansouri
Dr. Janne Mende
Dr. Pavlina Miteva-Bölter
Guest Professor Doctoral Candidate
Scholarship holderResearcher at Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law ZEU Academic Manager 
Dr. Muhammad Muzammil
Brian Daniel Ongia
Prof. Martin Petrick
Prof. Stefan Peters
Assistant Executive Engineer (University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan) Institute of Agronomy and Crop Physiology
Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU)Head of the Professorship of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Policy (JLU) Chair of Peace Studies
(JLU)PI SDG Nexus Network Project
PI Trans-Livestock
Prof. Alexander Prishchepov
Prof. Petra Quillfeldt
Dr. Sarah Robinson
Marcellin Rwibutso
Aarhus University
(Denmark)Behavioral Ecology and Ecophysiology
(JLU)Freelancer Department of Animal Ecology & Systematics (JLU) 
Rahat Sabyrbekov, PhD
Prof. Archana R. Sathyan
Prof. em. Peter Schmidt
Prof. Lea Schneider
OSCE Academy in Bishkek
(Kyrgyzstan)Guest Professor at JLU
Kerala Agricultural University, IndiaRetired professor Climate-environment-human
relationships (JLU)
Prof. Sandra Schwindenhammer
Nagima Shukurbekova
Palwinder Singh
Katrin Strobehn
Professorship in Social Science Sustainability Research with a focus on Sustainable Food Systems (JLU) ZEU Doctoral Candidate Student assistant ZEU Doctoral Candidate 
Adriana Sumba Naula
Prof. Ramona Teuber
Mathias Tesfaye
Munguntuul Ulziibaatar
Doctoral Candidate
Scholarship holderHead of the Professorship of Agricultural and Food Market Analysis (JLU) Doctoral Candidate
Scholarship holderDoctoral Candidate
Scholarship holder
Sander van Gameren
Prof. Rainer Waldhardt
Dr. Eli Wortmann-Kolundzija
Dr. Björn Weeser
Researcher Smart Energy
Materials and Energy X TransitionDivision of Landscape Ecology and Landscape Planning (JLU) Freelancer 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° Zeughaus Building
