Chair of International Relations and Sustainable Development
Faculty of Educational and Social Science

nachhaltigkeit@uni-muenster.de

Research Areas:

• Sustainable Development
• Power (instrumental, structural, discursive)
• Justice, The Good Life, Political Legitimacy, Transformation
• Agrifood, Energy, Environment

Institute of Landscape Ecology, Working Group Applied Landscape Ecology/Ecological Planning
Faculty of Geosciences

tillmann.buttschardt@uni-muenster.de

Research Areas:

• Integratetd natural ressources management and ecological planning
• Detection of landscape changes (terrestrial laser scanning)
• Transformative approaches in landscape ecology
• Resilience of human-environmental-systems

Seminar for Reformed Theology
Faculty of Protestant Theology

kaefer@uni-muenster.de

Research Areas:

• Ethics of Justice
• Animal/ Environment Ethics
• Reformed and Lutheran Theology
• Schleiermacher Research
• Anthropology and Artifical Intelligence

Institute for molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology
Faculty of Biology

bodo.philipp@uni-muenster.de

Research Areas:

• microbial Biotechnology
• microbial Ecology
• Bioeconomy and circular economy

Junior Professorship for Political Theory
Faculty of Educational and Social Science

svenja.ahlhaus@uni-muenster.de

Research areas:

• Political Theory and Theory of Democracy
• Sustainability in Political Theory
• Normative perspectives on strategic litigation (e.g. climate litigation)
• Political representation of animals
• Belonging, citizenship, religious plurality, legitimacy
• Democratic innovations in the ecological crisis

Chair for Private Law, Philosophy of Law, and Private International Law
Department: Faculty of Law

stefan.arnold@uni-muenster.de

Research Areas:

• Private Law
• Philosophy of Law
• Private International Law and Comparative Law
• Sustainability and Law
• Artificial Intelligence (in legal dogmatic and legal philosophical perspective)

Seminar of Ancient History/Institute of Epigraphy
Department: History

hans.beck@uni-muenster.de

 

Chair of Politics and Law
Faculty of Educational and Social Science

thomas.dietz@uni-muenster.de

Research Areas:

• Sustainable Development
• Transnational Governance
• Law & Politics
• International Law

Working group for talent research/ Individual support
Department: Eductional Science

fiscchr@uni-muenster.de

• Sustainable potential development
• Education for sustainable development
• Diversity and teacher education
• Talent research and individual support

Jun. Prof. for Global Environmental Governance
Faculty of Educational and Social Science

antoniag@uni-muenster.de

Research Areas:

• Theories of International Political Economy
• Global Environmental Governance
• Norms in International Relations
• Particiaption in and Acceptance of the Energy Transition
• Intersectionality

Chair of Socialization
Faculty of Educational and Social Science

matthias.grundmann@uni-muenster.de

Research Areas:

• Education Research
• Socio-ecological Socialization Research
• Social Relations and Community Research
• Social Structure- and Milieu Research

MEET - Münster Electrochemical Energy Technology

adrienne.hammerschmidt@uni-muenster.de

Research Areas

• Batteries of the future
• Sustainability, framework conditions, acceptance, economy & ecology, Big Data, AI

Institute of Christian Social Sciences
Faculty of Catholic Theology

m.heimbach-steins@uni-muenster.de

Research Areas:

• Justice, Human Rights Ethics
• Christian Traditions and Sustainability
• Social Ethics for a Long-life-Society

Center for Biology Education
Faculty of Biology

hellberg@uni-muenster.de

Research Areas:

• Education for Sustainable Development
• Basic Ecological Education
• Soil Ecology

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

Chair of pharmaceutical and medicinal chemistry
Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy

joachim.jose@uni-muenster.de

Research Areas:

• Bioeconomy
• Enzymatic conversion of plant biomass into basic chemicals
• Biotechnology-based sustainable chemistry
• Enzyme recycling

Institute for Catholic Theology and Didactics/Religious Pedagogy and Educational Research
Faculty of Catholic Theology

j.koenemann@uni-muenster.de

Research Areas:

• Foundation and Justification of Religious Education
• Extracurricular Education
• Poverty and Education (Educational Justice)
• Pastoral Care in Schools and School Development
• Religion in the Public Sphere
• Religion and Biography, Studying Biography
• Group Psychology - Dynamics and Processes in Groups
• Empirical Theology / Qualitative Empirical Social Research

Institute for Geoinformatics, Situated Computing and Interaction Lab (sitcom)
Faculty of Geosciences

c.kray@uni-muenster.de

Reasearch Areas:

• Smart City
• Enabling participation for sustainability with technology

Institute of Classical Archaeology and Christian Archaeology/Archaeological Museum
Department of History/ Philosophy

lichtenb@uni-muenster.de

Research Areas:

•     Settlement Archaeology
•     Greek-Roman Near East
•     Iconography, Ancient Religion, Numismatics
•     Landscape

Institute for Egyptology and Coptology
Faculty of Philology

a.lohwasser@uni-muenster.de

Research Areas:

• The Kingdom of Kush (8th century B.C.-4th century A.D.) in ancient Sudan
• Bayuda desert: communication routes and cultures far from centres
• Biographies of archaeological objects
• Archaeological cultural anthropology

MExLab ExperiMINTe

d.masemann@uni-muenster.de

Research Areas:

• Experiment-based learning of children and adolescents on sustainability topics
• Science transfer
• House of Little Researchers Münster
• zdi center of the WWU Münster

Institute for Geography/Local, Regional and National Development, Spatial Planning
Faculty of Geosciences

moessner@uni-muenster.de

Research Areas:

• Sustainable Urban Development
• Governance Research
• Spatial Planning
• Planning Conflicts

Department of Philosophy
Faculty of History and Philosophy

michael.quante@uni-muenster.de

Research Areas:

• Philosophy of German Idealism
• Philosophy of the person
• Action Theory
• Ethics
• biomedical ethics
• Philosophy of law and social philosophy

Workgroup safety-critical systems
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science

anne.remke@uni-muenster.de

Research Areas:

• Critical infrastructures
• Control of smart grids, decentralised storage media
• Reliability, security and sustainability

Institute for Neuro- and Behavioural Biology
Faculty of Biology

richterh@uni-muenster.de

Research Areas:

• Welfare diagnostics in laboratory animals
• Cognition and emotion
• Improvement of animal experimental approaches and husbandry conditions (refinement)
• Informative value and reproducibility of animal experiments

Institute for Geoinformatics
Faculty of Informatic

b.risse@uni-muenster.de

Research Areas:

• Quantitative analyses of insects in natural habitats

Working group Schmid lab - Metabolic Engineering and Microbial Polysaccharides

jochen.schmid@uni-muenster.de

Research Areas:

• Microbial biotechnology
• Biopolymers
• Bioeconomy
• Use of renewable raw materials

Institute for Political Science
Faculty of Educational and Social Science

karen.siegel@uni-muenster.de

Research Areas:

• Sustainable development and transformation
• Governance of natural resources and bioeconomy
• Regional Environmental Governance
• Latin America

Institute of Landscape Ecology, WG Applied Landscape Ecology and Ecological Planning
Department of Geosciences

cornelia.steinhaeuser@uni-muenster.de

Research Areas:

• Transformative approaches in landscape ecology
• Agroecology
• Intangible values in landscape relationships and resource conservation

Chair of Educational Science with a focus on vocational education
Faculty of Educational and Social Science

ulrike.weyland@uni-muenster.de

Research Areas:

• Professionalization of school and company training personnel
• Research-based learning in teacher education
• Competence modelling and measurement in vocational education and training
• Transition research: focus on career orientation
• Health promotion in vocational training
• Digitization in vocational training

German Institute

k.wilhelms@uni-muenster.de

Research Areas:

• Climate Crisis and Theater
• Theater and Drama Research
• The Political in Literature
• Law and Literature
• Model Theory
• Autobiographical Research
• Theories of Space and Time
• Media Studies
• Gender Studies

MEET Battery Research Center (Muenster University)

martin.winter@uni-muenster.de

Research Areas:

• Lithium-ion batteries
• Lithium metal systems (solid matter, sulphur, air, etc.)
• Dual ion batteries
• Super capacitors (including lithium-ion capacitors and hybrid capacitors)
• alternative lithium-free systems