ZIN-Members
Executive Board at the Center for Interdisciplinary Sustainability Research

Prof. Dr. Tillmann Buttschardt

Prof. Dr. Anne Käfer

Prof Dr. Bodo Philipp
Further Members at the Center for Interdisciplinary Sustainability Research

Prof. Dr. Svenja Ahlhaus

Prof. Dr. Stefan Arnold

Prof. Hans Beck

Prof. Dr. Thomas Dietz

Prof Dr. Asmaa El Maaroufi
Dr. Robert Matthias Erdbeer
Institute of German Studies
Faculty of Philology
erdbeer@uni-muenster.de
Research Areas:
- Literary Modelling

Prof. Dr. Christian Fischer

Dr. Rebecca Froese

Apl. Prof. Dr. Sonja Gensler

Prof. Dr. Antonia Graf

Prof. Dr. Matthias Grundmann

Dr. Adrienne Hammerschmidt

Prof. Dr. Marianne Heimbach-Steins

Prof. Dr. Guido Hertel

Prof. Dr. Joachim Jose

Prof. Dr. Judith Könemann

Prof. Dr. Christian Kray

Prof. Dr. Achim Lichtenberger

Prof. Dr. Angelika Lohwasser

Dr. Dörthe Masemann

Dr. Pia Mamut

Prof. Dr. Samuel Mössner
Prof. Dr. Dirk Prüfer
Working Group Plant Biotechnology
Faculty of Biology
dprüfer@uni-muenster.de
Research Areas:
- Molecular plant biotechnology

Dr. Lea Püchel

Prof. Dr. Michael Quante

Prof. Anne Remke

Prof. Dr. Helene Richter

Prof. Dr. Benjamin Risse

Dr. David Rott

Prof. Dr. Jochen Schmid

Dr. Karen Siegel

Prof. Dr. Helena Stehle

Dr'in Cornelia Steinhäuser

Professor Dr. Ulrike Weyland

Dr. Kerstin Wilhelms

Prof. Dr. Martin Winter
Prof'in Dr. Bettina Zeis
Working Group Zeis - Ecophysiology, Institut für Integrative Zellbiologie und Physiologie
Faculty of Biology
zeis@uni-muenster.de
Research Areas:
- Adaptation of aquatic organisms to changes in environmental conditions
- Effect of environmental stressors on the physiology of small crustaceans
Former Members at the Center for Interdisciplinary Sustainability Research
Prof. Dr. Cornelia Denz
Institute of Applied Physics
Faculty of Physics
denz@uni-muenster.de
Research Areas:- MExLab Physik
- MExlab ExperiMINTe
- students and sustainability
- experiment-based learning of sustainability
- Physical environmental experiments
- Organic Solar Cells
- Green Photonics
Dr. Fabian Dielmann
Institute for Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry
Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy
dielmann@uni-muenster.de- homogeneous catalysis
- separation and material usage of carbon dioxide
- activation and derivatisation of greenhouse gases
Prof. Dr. Ulrike Grabski-Kieron
Institut for Geography, Working Group for Local, Regional and National Development
Faculty of Geosciences
kieron@uni-muenster.de- Spatial- and Environmental Planning, Applied Geography
- Rural Spatial Research and Development of Rural Areas
- Planning Research Methodology
Dr. Gesine Hellberg-Rode
Center for Biology Education
Faculty of Biology
hellberg@uni-muenster.de
Research Areas:- Education for Sustainable Development
- Basic Ecological Education
- Soil Ecology
Prof. Dr. Dieter Hoffmeister
Working Group Community and Sustainability Research
Research Areas:
Faculty of Educational and Social Science
hoffmed@uni-muenster.de- Environmental Sociology
- Rural Sociology
- Family Sociology
- Youth Sociology
- Poverty and Social Inequality
Dr. Steffen Lange
Chair of International Relations and Sustainable Development
Faculty of Educational and Social Science
steffen.lange@uni-muenster.de
Research Areas:- Plural Economics
- Transdisciplinary research
- Digitalization and sustainability
- Macroeconomics of the sustainability transformation
- Economic growth and the environment
- Rebound effects
Prof. Dr. Markus Lederer
Chair of Political Science and International Relations
TU Darmstadt, Department of Political Science
lederer@pg.tu-darmstadt.de
Research Areas:- International Climate Policy
- Climate Policy in the Global South
- Regulation of Carbon Markets
- Green Transformations and the Role of Bureaucracies
- International Forest Policy
Prof. Dr. Andreas Löschel
Chair of Economics, esp. Energy and Resource Economics
Research Areas:
Faculty of Business and Economics
andreas.loeschel@wiwi.uni-muenster.de- Economics of Climate Change
- Energy Economics
- Environmental Economics
- Computational Economics
Prof. Dr. Paul Reuber
Institute of Geography
Faculty of Geosciences
p.reuber@uni-muenster.de
Research Areas:- Political Geography
- Conflicts over ecological resources
- Integration of immigrants
Prof. Dr. Ulrike Röttger
Institute of Communication Sciences
Faculty of Educational and Social Sciences
ulrike.roettger@uni-muenster.de
Research Areas:- Trust and Strategic Communication
- CSR-Communication
- Communication Counsel
Prof. Dr. Sabine Schlacke
Institute of Environmental and Planning Law
Research Areas:
Faculty of Law
sabine.schlacke@uni-muenster.de- Public Law
- Construction, Planning- and Environmental Law
- Internationale Perspectives
Prof. Dr. Gabriele Schrüfer
Institute of Didactics in Geography
Research Areas:
Faculty of Geosciences
gabriele.schruefer@uni-muenster.de- Global Learning / Teaching for Sustainable Development
- Intercultural Learning
- Spacial Perception
- Teaching and Learning with Social Media
Dr. Erik Tolen
Chair of International Relations and Sustainable Development
Münster International Peace Research Initative
tolen@uni-muenster.de
Research Areas:- Influence of sustainability on Peace
- Sustainable workplace
- Sustainable laboratory practices
Associate members at the Center for Interdisciplinary Sustainability Research
Dr. Thomas Hilker
Ecumenical Institute
Faculty of Catholic Theology
t_hilk02@ uni-muenster.de
Research Areas:- Systematic theology in the face of climate change
- Topological theology of natural and cultural spaces
- Philosophical foundations of ways of approaching the world
- Theology in the age of the Anthropocene