ZIN-Members

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

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

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

Microbial Biotechnology and Ecology - Research Group Prof. Dr. Bodo Philipp
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
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)

Backlab Personality & Assesment
Department of Psychology

mitja.back@wwu.de

Research Areas:

• social division, conflict and cohesion
• Interindividual differences in social and political attitudes
• Personality, social interactions, social relations
• Personality dynamics and development

Seminar of Ancient History/Institute of Epigraphy
Faculty of History and Philosophy

hans.beck@uni-muenster.de
 

Chair of Digital Innovation and the Public Sector
School of Business and Economics

tobias.brandt@ercis.uni-muenster.de

Research Areas:

• Smart and sustainable cities
• Digital transformation
• Digital innovation
• Data-driven decision-making

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

Department of Islamic Philosophy with a focus on Islamic Ethics
Center for Islamic Theology (CIT)

asmaa.elmaaroufi@uni-muenster.de 

Research Areas:

• Creation theology
• Anthropology
• Animal and environmental ethics
• Intersectionality research
• Religions and social-ecological transformations

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

fiscchr@uni-muenster.de

Research Areas:

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

Chair of International Relations and Sustainable Development
Department: Political Science

rebecca.froese@uni-muenster.de

Research Areas: 

• Sustainable Development
• Social-Ecological Tipping Points
• Human-Environmental Interactions
• Latin America, (in particular Brazil, Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador)
• Universities in the Transformation towards Sustainability
• Global Change
• Conflicts & Environmental Peacebuilding
• Land, Environmental and Resource Governance

Chair of Value-Based Marketing (IWM)
Marketing Center Münster

s.gensler@uni-muenster.de

Research Areas

• Impact of digital transformation on market-oriented management
• Relevance of societal change for marketing

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

Chair of International Relations and Sustainable Development
Department of Political Science

tobiasgumbert@uni-muenster.de

Research Areas:

• Sustainable Development, Sustainable Consumption
• Global Agrifood Politics, Waste Politics
• Governance and Governmentality
• Limits to Growth and Degrowth
• Environmental Political Theory and Political Sociology
• International Relations Theory

MEET - Münster Electrochemical Energy Technology
Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy

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

Department of Organisational and Business Psychology 
Department of Psychology

ghertel@uni-muenster.de

Research Areas:

• Behaviour in organisations
• Digitalisation of work
• Demographic change and migration
• Trust and cooperation
• Negotiation research

Managing Director of the Institute for Environmental and Planning Law
Chair of Public Law 
Department of Law

patrick.hilbert@uni-muenster.de

Research Areas: 

• Legal structures for climate change adaptation

Working Group Spatial Planning/Sustainability 
Institute for Geography
Faculty of Geosciences

idies@uni-muenster.de 

Research Areas:

• Geography of Consumption and Waste
• Sustainable Urban Development and Planning
• Environmental Humanities
• Object, Subject and Self-techniques

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

Head of the Social Psychological Foundations of Education and Teaching unit
Academic Director of the Centre for Teaching in Higher Education
Department of Psychology 

jucks@uni-muenster.de

Research Areas: 

• Communication and interaction in teaching and learning contexts, primarily in the context of digitalisation and in the university context
• Science communication

Chair of Communication Studies with a focus on Media Sociology
Department of Communication
Faculty of Educational and Social Science

sigrid.kannengiesser@uni-muenster.de

Research Areas:

• Digital media, artificial intelligence and sustainability
• Sustainable consumption and digitalisation
• Socio-ecological and economic consequences of digitalisation, datafication and automated communication
• Environmental movements and media
• Gender studies, media and sustainability

Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy 
Coordination ReCAP: Culturally Adapted Psychotherapy for Refugees
Faculty of Psychology 

a.kip@uni-muenster.de

Research Areas:

• Effects of war experiences and flight on mental health
• Impact of natural disasters on mental health
• Climate change and the epidemiology of mental illness

Institute for Nuclear Physics
Department of Physics

christian.klein-boesing@uni-muenster.de

Research Areas:

• Basic research in nuclear and particle physics
• Sustainability in everyday research
• Nature of Science in climate and basic research
• MExLab Physics
• Sustainability behaviour of pupils
• Experiment-based learning on sustainability topics and basic research

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

Chair of International Relations and Sustainable Development
Department: Political Science

halliki.kreinin@uni-muenster.de

Research Areas:

• Strategies for Social-Ecological Transformation
• Sustainable work
• Postgrowth/degrowth welfare (systems)
• “The good life”, sufficiency, (enablers and barriers to) living well within limits
• Environmental labour studies, trade unions and transformation

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

Chair of International Relations and Sustainable Development
Department: Political Science

p.mamut@uni-muenster.de

Research Areas:

• Socio-ecological transformation
• Environmental Governance
• Sustainability & Democracy
• Sufficiency
• Power and Discourse
• Energy

Working Group Spatial Planning/Sustainability working group
Faculty of Geosciences

moessner@uni-muenster.de

Research Areas:

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

Chair of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy
Department of Psychology 

morina@uni-muenster.de

Research Areas:

• Social and cognitive mechanisms of mental disorders
• Comparative processes and assessment
• Effects of child abuse, war experiences and migration on mental health
• Psychological consequences of natural disasters and extreme weather events
• Psychological interventions, including technology-based interventions
• Psychological interventions to promote more climate-friendly behaviours

Chair of Digital Innovation and the Public Sector (Prof. Brandt)
Department of Information Systems 

lea.puechel@ercis.uni-muenster.de

Research Areas:
Sustainable Information Systems

• Sustainable information systems
• Sustainability Measurement
• Data Management
• Green IS
• Green IT

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

Computer Vision and Machine Learning Systems Group
Faculty of Informatic

b.risse@uni-muenster.de

Research Areas:

• Quantitative analyses of insects in natural habitats

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

david.rott@uni-muenster.de

Research Areas:

• Teacher Education
• Student Development
• Research learning
• Critical Thinking

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

Research group “Transformation and Sustainability Governance in South American Bioeconomies”
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

Group of "Strategic Communication II"
Faculty of Educational and Social Science

helena.stehle@uni-muenster.de

Research Areas: 

• Strategic and organisational communication
• Environmental discourses
• Energy and infrastructure communication

Working Group 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

Department of Modern German Literature
Institute of German Literary Sciences 

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