Speaker Team
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Bauhus
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Bauhus heads the Chair of Silviculture at the Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources. His research focuses on controlling the structure and dynamics of forests for the provision of ecosystem services, on the impact of silvicultural measures on the ecosystem, and on the adaptation of forests to global change. He received the ‘Scientific Achievement Award’ from the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) for his research. He is chair of the Scientific Advisory Board on Forest Policy at the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture.
Prof. Dr. Friederike Lang
Prof. Dr. Friederike Lang heads the Chair of Soil Ecology, located at the Institute of Forest Sciences, Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources. Her research foci are the coupling of carbon and nutrient dynamics in forest soils, soil conservation (mechanized forestry), and the ecology of soil structure. Among other projects, she is currently conducting research on the quantification of ecosystem processes across scales by means of smart autonomous sensor networks in the Collaborative Research Centre ECOSENSE (SFB 1537) and serves as spokesperson of the Forest Floor (FOR 5315) research group. She is a member of the Soil Conservation Expert Panel at the German Environmental Agency and theScientific Advisory Board on Forest Policy at the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture.
Prof. Dr. Marc Hanewinkel
Prof. Dr. Marc Hanewinkel is Professor of Forest Economy and Forest Planning at the Institute of Forest Sciences, Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources. Among other things, he investigates the topics of risk analysis (risk identification, modelling, and assessment), impact of climate change on Europe’s forests, development of adaptive management strategies, economic analysis of climate changes, bioenergy, impact of changes in forest management strategies, and forest restructuring. A project he is currently working on in the ClimXtreme research network is ‘Module C: Impacts – Subproject 11: WIND – Winter Storm Impacts in Central Europe’. He is a member of the European network for forest sciences NFZ.forestnet.
Steering Board
In addition to the three spokespersons, the Steering Board members are as follows:
Prof. Dr. Katrin Heer
Professor of Forest Genetics and lead of Research Area A “Risks to Ecosystems and Adaptation Options”
Prof. Dr. Michael Scherer-Lorenzen
Professor of Geobotany and and lead of Research Area A “Risks to Ecosystems and Adaptation Options”
Prof. Dr. Cathrin Zengerling
Head of the Professorship for Transformation to Sustainable Energy Systems and lead of Research Area B “Decision-Making for Future Forests”
Prof. Dr. Michael Pregernig
Professor of Sustainability Governance and lead of Research Area B “Decision-Making for Future Forests”
Prof. Dr. Daniela Kleinschmit
Professor of Forestry and Environmental Policy and lead of Research Area C “Adaptation and Transformation Pathways for Novel Forest SESs”
Prof. Dr. Markus Weiler
Professor of Hydrology and lead of Research Area C “Adaptation and Transformation Pathways for Novel Forest SESs”
Dr. Veronika Braunisch
Head of the Forest Protected Areas and Biodiversity Unit at the Forest Research Institute Baden-Württemberg (FVA) and the representative of the partner institutions
Alexej Steuerle
PhD student in Research Area A at the Chair of Ecosystem Physiology and representative of early-career researchers
Jan Zumoberhaus
Postdoc in Research Area B at the Chair of Sustainability Governance and representative of early-career researchers
Central Management
Doctoral researchers & data scientists (list in progress)
Postdoctoral researchers (list in progress)
Scientific Advisory Board
- Prof. Dr. Claudia Binder (Swiss Mobiliar Chair for Urban Ecology, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
- Prof. Dr. Aletta Bonn (Head of the biodiversity and people department, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ)
- Prof. Dr. Maria Brockhaus (Professor of International Forest Policy at the University of Helsinki)
- Dr. Klaus Keller (Hodgson Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Thayer School of Engineering Dartmouth)
- Prof. Dr. Thomas Knoke (Professorship Forest Management, Technical University Munich)
- Prof. Dr. Klaus J. Puettmann (Professorship in Silviculture Alternatives, Oregon State University)
- Prof. Dr. Peter Verburg (Professor for Environmental Spatial Analysis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)