ZEU Members
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Food and Energy Systems
- Focus Area 1: Food and Energy Systems
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Focus Area 1: Food and Energy Systems
Speaker: Prof. Martin Petrick, Vice Speaker: Dr. Marie Reusch
Today, billions of people worldwide suffer from malnutrition, causing various negative health impacts. Across the globe, more than a billion people depend on the agricultural sector for their livelihoods. Land and biomass also figure prominently in the transition to environmentally more sustainable energy sources. For example, the transition from fossil to renewable energies represents a key strategy to reduce global warming. Food and energy systems thus play a central role in any transition to a more sustainable economy. Technological, economic and social change materialises within these systems. At the same time, the many dimensions and interrelations of food and energy systems create complex analytical and policy challenges. The ZEU Focus Area 1 addresses these challenges.
In our approach, food and energy systems include all the elements and activities that relate to the production, processing, distribution, and consumption of food and energy, and the results of these activities, including socio-economic and environmental outcomes. Natural resources, people, inputs, processes, technologies, infrastructures, institutions constitute the core elements.
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Researchers within the ZEU Focus Area 1 pursue a systems approach while analysing synergies and trade-offs in the transformation towards more sustainable food and energy systems. We investigate resource use and environmental impacts, as well as the role of actors and governance systems, in a holistic way. Hence, we expand the prevailing focus of attention from food and energy producers to include other actors such as food companies, retailers, energy suppliers and, ultimately, consumers. Such a broader approach improves our understanding of current food and energy systems and highlights pathways towards a more sustainable future by going beyond a restricted sectoral view.
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Prof. Dr. Helmut Breitmeier
Member of the Board
International Environmental Regimes |
Global Environmental Governance |
Challenges of Climate Change |
Global Food Governance
Dr. Bente Castro Campos
Member of ZEU
Post Doc
Society & Culture | Health & Food |
Environment & Natural Resources |
Agricultural Markets
Nadia Combariza
Member of ZEU
Doctoral Candidate
SDG NN ProjectJust transition | Renewable Energy
DecarbonisationDr. Alicia Correa
Member of ZEU
Post Doc
Water - Energy - Food | NEXUS |
SDGs | Water Security
More... More... More... More... Dr. Stephanie Domptail
Member of ZEU
Post Doc
Ecological Economics | Political Ecology |
Land Use Systems | Farming Systems |
Social Ecological Systems
Prof. Dr. Michael Düren
Member of ZEU
Renewable Energies
Prof. Dr. Andreas Gattinger
Member of ZEU
Organic Farming Systems |
Soil Functions | Greenhouse Gases |
Eco-Functional Intensification | Agro-Ecology
Prof. Solomon G. Gebrehiwot
External ZEU Member
Qualitative Social Research |
Environmental Science | Water Science |
Forestry | Hydrology | Geostatistics
More... More... More... More... María Gracia Glas de Temel
Member of ZEU
Doctoral Candidate
EATSANE Project
Food & Nutrition Security | Mother & Child
Nutrition | Qualitative & Quantitative
Empirical Research
Johannes Hampp
Member of ZEU
Doctoral Candidate
Energy Transition | Renewable Energies |
Connected ("smart") Systems &
Emerging Technologies
Prof. i.R. Roland Herrmann
External ZEU Member
Agricultural & Food Market Analysis
Dr. Irmgard Jordan
External ZEU Member
Nutrition Security |
Food, Culture & Nutrition
More... More... Nadja Kasperczyk
Member of ZEU
Senior Researcher
Sustainability assessments
of AgrosystemsGreening of agriculture,
Urban biological gardening
Biodiversity in food value chains
Nature education
Prof. Dr. Andreas Klinke
External ZEU Member
Governance Research | Public Policy
Analysis | International Environmental
Politics | International Relations & Global
Governance | Social Science Risk Research |
Risk Governance | Political Theory &
Philosophy of Risk & Uncertainty |
Democracy Theories
Prof. i. R. Ingrid-Ute Leonhäuser
External ZEU Member
Nutrition & Consumer Behaviour |
Food & Nutrition Security &
Evaluation Research
Prof. Dr. Ernst-August Nuppenau
Member of ZEU
Resource Economics | Economic
Aspects of the Management of Cultural
Landscapes | Economic-Ecological
Valuation
More... More... More... More... Prof. Dr. Martin Petrick
Member of ZEU
Agriculture Policy | Structural &
Organisational Change in Agriculture |
Agriculture & Water Reforms in
Central Asia
Dr. Marie Reusch
Member of ZEU
Post Doc
Feminist Political Science | Gender &
Right-Wing Extremism | Local Food Policy &
Movement | Social Inequality | Discources on
& Regulations of Motherhood
Dr. Sarah Robinson
External member of ZEU
Pastoral land tenure
Livestock production systems
Rangeland ecology and management
Central Asia and the Caucuses
Prof. Dr. Archana Raghavan Sathyan
External ZEU Member
Climate Change Vulnerability &
Adaption Studies | Participatory Approaches
in Agricultural Extension & RuRal Development |
Agricultural Knowlegde & Information System
More... More... More... More... Prof. em. Dr. Peter Schmidt
External ZEU Member
Structural Equation |
Theory of Planned Behavior |
Values
Dr. Sandra Schwindenhammer
Member of ZEU
Sustainability Transformation |
(Urban) Agricultural Systems of the Future |
Theories and Conflicts of Global Norms & Regimes |
Governance in International Organizations |
Agency & Political Authority of Private Organizations |
Governance through Standards |
Global Sustainability, Food and Agricultural
Governance
Dr. Irina Solovyeva
Member of ZEU
Post Doc
Ecological-Economic Interactions |
Environmental Efficiency |
Land Governance |
Data Envelopment Analysis|
Structural Equation Modelling
Katrin Strobehn
Member of ZEU
Doctoral Candidate
Water-energy-food nexus |
Environmental governance |
Global governance |
Critical norm research
More... More... More... More... Prof. Dr. Ramona Teuber
Member of the Board
Agricultural Economics |
Food Economics |
Consumer Research |
Applied Econometrics
Dr. Elena Xoplaki
Member of ZEU
Climate variability and change |
Extreme weather & climate events past, present &
future | Atmospherics circulation dynamics process |
Understanding climate-society interactions |
Climate services
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Climate and Environmental Change
- Focus Area 2: Climate and Environmental Change
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Focus Area 2: Climate and Environmental Change
Speaker: Dr. Elena Xoplaki, Vice Speaker: Dr. Irina Solovieva
Global environmental change encompasses changes in the Earth System, spanning from the large to the regional and local scales, driven by human activities as well as associated biological and physical processes.
Understanding the mechanisms and patterns of change as well as the systems’ interactions and feedback advances future risk assessments. Equally important is to increase our knowledge of the impacts of climate and environmental change on societies, ecosystems, food and energy systems (ZEU Focus Area 1), health, and human security. Our research aims at enhancing preparedness, supporting well-informed adaptation and mitigation strategies to safeguard and sustain human wellbeing through technologies that enable climate neutrality.
Within ZEU Focus Area 2, we support the impact assessment community and contribute to informed policy making. We study past, present, and future climate and environmental changes and their impacts at continental, regional, and local scales. We focus on understanding the role of natural and anthropogenic climate change, land use and management changes, biodiversity loss, as well as overexploitation and pollution.
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Dr. Muralidhar Adakudlu
Member of ZEU
Post Doc
Climate Modelling | Climate Change
Programming | Data analysis
Lorine Behr
Member of ZEU
Doctoral Candidate
Compound Extremes | Mediterreanean
Ocean & Overflow Water | Climate
Modelling | Climate Change
Prof. Dr. Lutz Breuer
Spokesman of the Board
Landscape, Water &
Biogeochemical Cycles
Dr. Bente Castro Campos
Member of ZEU
Post Doc
Society & Culture | Health & Food |
Environment & Natural Resources |
Agricultural Markets
More... More... More... More... Nadia Combariza
Member of ZEU
Doctoral Candidate
Just transition | Renewable Energy
DecarbonisationDr. Alicia Correa
Member of ZEU
Post Doc
Water - Energy - Food | NEXUS |
SDGs | Water Security
Prof. Dr. Andreas Dittmann
Member of ZEU
Human Geography | Development
Geography | Cultural Geography |
Population & Urban Geography |
Human-Environment-Relations |
Geograpic Conflict Research
Prof. Dr. Michael Düren
Member of the Board
Renewable Energies
More... More... More... More... Prof. (apl) Dr. Rolf-Alexander Düring
Member of ZEU
Environmental Chemistry,
Fate and Analysis of Pollutants in
Soil-Water Systems | Ecotoxicology
Dr. Florian Ellsäßer
Member of ZEU
Post Doc
Compound Extreme Events |
Process - based Crop Modelling |
Hydrological Modelling |
Bias-Correction & Downscaling |
Climate Change | Water Usage of Plants
Dr. Edgar Espitia
Member of ZEU
Post Doc
Water quality monitoring
and ModellingKalina Fonseca
Member of ZEU
Doctoral Candidate
Water quality
Nature-based solutions for water treatment
Water pollution in Andean páramos
Water polluted with arsenic
Water alternative treatments in key ecosystemsMore... More... More... More... Dr. Christoph Funk
Member of ZEU
Post Doc
Climate Change Vulnerability | Adaption
Strategies | Energy Economics |
Econometric Modelling
Prof. Dr. Andreas Gattinger
Member of ZEU
Organic Farming Systems
Soil Functions | Greenhouse Gases
Eco-Functional Intensification
Agro-Ecology
Dr. André Große-Stoltenberg
Member of ZEU
Post Doc
Remote Sensing | GIS | Landscape
Ecology | Ecophysiology |
Biological Invasions
Dr. Fatemeh Heidari
Member of ZEU
Senior Scientist
Developing machine learning models
big data processing
deep learning techniques
programming languages
More... More... More... More... Dr. Michael Hübler
Member of ZEU
Senior Scientist
Climate & Energy Policy
Renewable Energies
Sustainable Resource Use
Technology Diffusion
Dr. Suzanne Jacobs
Member of ZEU
Post Doc
Environment
Water Quality Monitoring
Water Sampling
Nadja Kasperczyk
Member of ZEU
Research assistant
Sustainability assessments of Agrosystems
greening of agriculture, urban biological gardening
biodiversity in food value chains
nature education
Prof. Dr. Till Kleinebecker
Member of ZEU
Biodiversity - Ecosystem Functioning
Ecology of South Patagonian Bogs
Ecologial Application of Near Infrared
Spectroscopy | Nature Conversation,
Restoration, Monitoring | Land use &
Climate Change in West Siberia
More... More... More... More... Birgit Kleinschmidt
Member of ZEU
Doctoral Candidate
Ecology of Waterbirds
Migration Patterns | Movement Ecology
Nutrition Ecology of Waterbirds
Prof. Dr. Andreas Klinke
External ZEU Member
Governance Research | Public Policy
Analysis | International Environmental
Politics | International Relations & Global
Governance | Social Science RiskResearch
Risk Governance | Political Theory &
Philosophy of Risk & Uncertainty
Democracy Theories
Prof. i. R. Ingrid-Ute Leonhäuser
External ZEU Member
Nutrition & Consumer Behaviour
Food & Nutrition Security &
Evaluation Research
Qing Lin
Member of ZEU
Post Doc
Machine Learning Models
Flood Forecasting
Climate Modelling
More... More... More... More... Prof. Dr. Iván Lizarazo
External ZEU Member
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Earth Observation | Land Change
Remote Sensing | GIS
Prof. Dr. Jürg Luterbacher, PhD
External ZEU Member
WMO Chief-Scientist
Climatology, Climate Dynamics
Climate Change
Niklas Luther
Member of ZEU
Doctoral Candidate
Compound Events | Concurrent Extremes |
Extreme Value Theory |Artificial Intelligence
& Machine Learning | Time Series Analysis
Long Memory | Structural Change
Climate Change | Climate Variability
Prof. Dr. Thilo Marauhn
Member of ZEU
Public Law |
International LawMore... More... More... More... Dr. Janne Mende
External ZEU Member
Human Rights | Global Governance &
Transnationalization | International
Institutions
Pavlina Miteva-Bölter
Member of ZEU
Doctoral Candidate
Environmental Governance | Regional
Environmental Organisations |
Ecosystem Approach to Marina
an Coastral Governance
Prof. Dr. Ernst-August Nuppenau
Member of ZEU
Resource Economics | Economic
Aspects of the Management of Cultural
Landscapes | Economic-Ecological Valuation
Dr. Vladimir Otrachshenko
Member of ZEU
Post Doc
Environmental & Resource Economics |
Climate Change | Health & Population
Economics | Quality of Life | Non-Market
Valuation | Field Experiments |
Tourism Economics | Applied
Microeconometrics
More... More... More... More... Prof. Dr. Stefan Peters
Member of ZEU
Latin America | Peace & Conflict
Research | Natural Resource
Based Development Models |
Social Inequalities
Prof. Petra Quillfeldt
Member of ZEU
Wild Populations of long-lived
Birds & their Responses to Changes
in Marine & Terrestrial Ecosystems
Prof. Dr. Archana Raghavan Sathyan
External ZEU Member
Climate Change Vulnerability &
Adaption Studies | Participatory Approaches in
Agricultural Extension & RuRal Development |
Agricultural Knowlegde & Information System
Dr. Sarah Robinson
External member of ZEU
Pastoral land tenure
Livestock production systems
Rangeland ecology and management
Central Asia and the Caucuses
More... More... More... More... Prof. em. Dr. Peter Schmidt
Exernal ZEU Member
Structural Equation |
Theory of Planned Behavior |
Values
Prof. Dr. Lea Schneider
Member of ZEU
Paleoclimatology | Climate
Reconstruction | Dendrochronology |
Volcanism & Climate
Julia Schwab
External member of ZEU
Extractivism | Energy transition
Post-fossil futures research
Dr. Irina Solovyeva
Member of ZEU
Post Doc
Ecological-Economic Interactions |
Environmental Efficiency | Land Governance |
Data Envelopment Analysis | Structural
Equation Modelling
More... More... More... More... Katrin Strobehn
Member of ZEU
Doctoral Candidate
Water-energy-food nexus |
Environmental governance |
Global governance |
Critical norm research
Myriam Elizabeth Vargas-Morales
External Member of ZEU
Doctoral Candidate
Environmental Economics
Natural &
Resources EconomicsDr. Odysseas Vlachopoulos
Member of ZEU
Computer Engineering |
Remote Sensing and
Earth Observation |Precision agriculture
and food security |Machine Learning algorithms |
Data processing pipelines
Prof. (apl) Dr. Rainer Waldhardt
Member of ZEU
Spatio-Temporal Scales in
Vegetation and Landscape Ecology |
Sustainable Land Use &
Rural Development
More... More... More... More... Dr. Björn Weeser
Member of ZEU
Project Manager of the
SDG NN ProjectPost Doc
Hydrology | Geoinformatic
Prof. Dr. Peter Winker
Member of ZEU
Statstics | Econometrics
Dr. Elena Xoplaki
Member of ZEU
Climate variability & change |
Extreme weather & climate events
past, present and future |
Atmospheric circulation dynamics,
process understanding |
Climate-society interactions |
climate services |
interdisciplinary & international
collaboration
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Zentrum für internationale Entwicklungs- und Umweltforschung (ZEU)
Center for international Development and Environmental Research (ZEU)Senckenbergstraße 3
D - 35390 Giessen+49 641 99 12700
+49 641 99 12709 / 12719
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.Managing Director
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Dr. Matthias Höher
Matthias.Hoeher@zeu.uni-giessen.de
+49 641 99 12700
Petra Spamer-Trapp
Petra.Spamer-Trapp@zeu.uni-giessen.de
+49 641 99 12703
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Sabine.Viehmann@zeu.uni-giessen.de
+49 641 99 12701