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Ulrich Brand is Professor for International Politics at the Department of Political Science.

Research Areas: International Environmental and Resource Politics, Imperial Mode of Living, Socio-Ecological Transformation, Critical Social Theory, Latin America

Anna Echterhölter is Professor for the History of Science at the Department of History.

Research Areas: History of Quantification, Resource Statistics, Standards and Data, Energy and Performance Measurement, Scales and Long Term Thinking, Historical Epistemology, Technosphere

Ulrike Felt is Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Department of Science and Technology Studies.

Research Areas: Science Communication, Governance, Knowledge Production, Socio-technical Infrastructures, Environment, Plastics

Thomas Glade is Professor of Physical Geography at the Department of Geography and Regional Research.

Research Areas: Geomorphology, Natural Hazards and Risks, Human Impact, Global Change

Nils Güttler is Assistant Professor for the History of Science at the Department of History.

Research Areas: History of Environmental Sciences, Natural History, Infrastructures, Media History, History of Ideas

Thilo Hofmann is Professor of Environmental Geosciences at the Department of Environmental Geosciences.

Research Areas: Pollution Dynamics, Environmental Nanotechnology, Remediation of Pollutants, Aquatic Geochemistry

Sebastian P. Klinger is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of German Studies.

Research Areas: Theories of Habitability, Literature and Media in the Anthropocene, History of the Environmental Sciences

Christian Köberl is Professor Emeritus of Geosciences at the Department of Lithospheric Research.

Research Areas: Impact Research, Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry, Planetary Geology, Meteorites

Franziska Müller is Professor for International Development at the Department of Development Studies.

Research Areas: Ecological Collapse and Political Ecology, Energy Transition and Energy Justice, Green Colonialism, Green Finance, Southern Africa, Transformation Conflicts

Alexis Rider is Assistant Professor for the Historical Dimensions of the Anthropocene at the Department of Economic and Social History.

Research Areas: Environmental History, History of Science, Deep Time, Materiality, Temporality, Aesthetics

Patrick Sakdapolrak is Professor of Population Geography and Demography at the Department of Geography and Regional Research.

Research Areas: Migration, Displacement, Translocality, Human-Environmental Relations, Climate Change, South-East Asia and East Africa

Anna Seidel is Assistant Professor for West Slavic Literatures and Cultures at the Department of Slavonic Studies.

Research Areas: West Slavic Literatures and Cultures (Polish, Czech, Slovak), Energy Humanities, Crude Cultures, Resource Aesthetics, Gender/Fossil Fuel Entanglements

Peter Schweitzer is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology.

Research Areas: Anthropology, Arctic, Climate Change, Infrastructure, Human-Environment Interactions

Vera Thomann is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of German Studies.

Research Areas: German Literature, Literary Theory, Poetics of Knowledge, Diagrammatics

Alice Vadrot is Professor for International Relations and the Environment at the Department of Political Science.

Research Areas: Social Sciences, Value Systems, Marine Biodiversity, Monitoring Practices, Conservation Policies

Hannes Bergthaller is Professor at the Department of English at National Taiwan Normal University, visiting in January 2024.

Research Areas: Anthropocene, Posthumanism, Ecocriticism, Environmental Humanities, Foodscapes, Neo-Cybernetics

Ángela López García is a PhD Student, visiting from June – September 2023.

Research Areas: Ecofeminism, North American Literature, Science Fiction Studies, U.S. Green Movement

Egidijus Mardosas is Post-Doctoral Researcher, visiting from 15 May – 13 June 2023.

Research Areas: Anthropocene-Capitalocene Debate, Metabolic Rift, Marxism, Ecology

Elisa Mazzocato is Erasmus exchange student, visiting from April – June 2023.

Research Areas: Literary Criticism, Ecocriticism, Modern German Literature, Anthropocene Literature

Bronislaw Szerszinsky is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Lancaster University, visiting as Guest Researcher in 2019.

Research Areas: Sociology, Technological Innovation, Environment and Culture

Giulia Simeoni is a PhD Student, visiting in June 2023.

Research Areas: Ecocriticism, Contemporary Italian Literature, Anthropocene Literature, Catastrophe Literature

Olga Smith is an art historian, specialising in contemporary art. She visited from 2021 – 2022 as Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow.

Research Areas: Art History, Nature, Nonhuman, Landscape, Environmental Emergencies

Hannah Spector is Associate Professor at Penn State at Harrisburg, visiting from May – June 2023.

Research Areas: Curriculum Studies, Education, Anthropocene, Hannah Arendt

Olga Timurgalieva is PhD Candidate at City University of Hong Kong, visiting from February – September 2024.

Research Areas: Yeast Art, Ecocriticism, Bioart, Art & Science, Microbes in Art

Johan A. Warodell is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow based in the Department of German Studies, visiting in 2026 – 2028. He studies modernist literature and visual culture. 

Research Areas: Literary Modernism, Visual Art, Environmental Humanities, Biodiversity in Fiction, Quantitative Animal Studies

Christopher Williams-Wynn is an art historian based in the Department of German Studies, visiting 2027 – 2029 as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow.

Research Areas: Modern and Contemporary Art, Art and Technology, Cultural Theory, Environmental Humanities