UP-affiliated Members
Members that are jointly appointed with regional, national or international non-university institutes and otherwise those closely ascociated with the University of Potsdam.
Prof. Dr. Sabine Attinger:
Hydrology • Environmental Risks • Multiscale Modeling • Uncertainty Analysis
Prof. Attinger specializes in mathematical hydrology, focusing on impact of climate change on regional hydrology
Dr. Peter Greve
Water Resources • Climate Modeling • Hydrology • Water Scarcity
Dr. Greve's research focuses on analyzing and simulating water resources within the climate system, aiming to understand water use-climate feedback and changes and uncertainties in water availability, aridity, and water scarcity.
Prof. Dr. Andreas Güntner
Hydrogravimetry • Hydrological Monitoring • Water Storage Variations • Geodetic Techniques
Prof. Güntner specializes in hydrogravimetry and hydrology, focusing on water storage variations, hydrological monitoring, and geodetic techniques.
Prof. Dr. Martin Herold
Earth observations • Land Surface Dynamics • Environmental Monitoring
Prof. Herold specializes in Earth Observations, focusing on monitoring land surface dynamics, environmental monitoring, and land-use change.
Prof. Dr. Ulrike Herzschuh
Paleoecology • Paleoclimatology • Ancient DNA Analysis • Arctic Vegetation Dynamics
Prof. Herzschuh specializes in paleoecology and paleoclimatology, focusing on ecosystem changes over decadal to glacial/interglacial timescales, ancient DNA and pollen analysis, and Arctic and boreal vegetation dynamics.
Prof. Dr. Christian Kuhlicke
Environmental Risks • Sustainability • Social Vulnerability • Community Resilience
Prof. Kuhlicke investigates how societies perceive and respond to environmental challenges, with a particular focus on strengthening community capacity and understanding factors that influence adaptive behavior towards environmental hazards.
Prof. Dr. Mark Lawrence
Atmospheric Chemistry • Air Quality • Climate Change • Sustainable Urban Development
Prof. Lawrence focuses on atmospheric chemistry and physics, examining the interactions between air quality and climate change, and developing strategies for sustainable urban development.
Prof. Dr. habil. Gunnar Lischeid
Landscape Hydrology • Biogeochemistry • Non-linear Data Analysis • Environmental Systems
Prof. Lischeid specializes in landscape hydrology and biogeochemistry, using advanced data analysis techniques to investigate water and nutrient fluxes in complex environmental systems.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bruno Merz
Flood Risk • Hydrological Extremes • Natural Hazard Risk Management • Climate Change Impacts
Prof. Merz specializes in hydrology and natural hazard risk management, focusing on flood risk analysis, hydrological extremes, and the impacts of climate change on water resources.
Prof. Dr. Johan Rockström
Global Sustainability • Earth System Science • Planetary Boundaries • Climate Change
Prof. Rockström specializes in global sustainability and Earth system science. He co-developed the Planetary Boundaries framework, which identifies key processes essential for maintaining the stability of the Earth system.
Prof. Dr. Michael Rode
Water Quality Modeling • Nutrient Transport • Hydrology • Aquatic Biogeochemistry
Prof. Rode specializes in hydrology in agricultural landscapes, focusing on the processes that influence water quality and nutrient transport.
Prof. Dr. Luis Samaniego
Hydrological Modeling • Drought/Flood Forecasting • Multiscale Parameterization • Surface Hydrology
Prof. Samaniego's research encompasses the monitoring, modeling, and forecasting of droughts and floods across various scales, with an emphasis on developing multiscale parameterization techniques for land surface and hydrological models.
PD Dr. Kirsten Thonicke
Climate Change • Land-Use Change • Ecosystem Dynamics • Fire Ecology
Dr. Thonicke research on how climate and land-use changes transform ecosystems, fire regimes, and biodiversity.
Prof. Dr. Claire Treat
Greenhouse Gas Fluxes • Permafrost Ecosystems • Wetland Ecosystems • Climate Change
Prof. Treat specializes in greenhouse gas fluxes from northern permafrost, agricultural, and wetland ecosystems, studying their response to climate warming, changes in soil thaw duration, and other drivers of spatial and temporal variability.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Weith
Urban and Regional Development • Land Management • Social Innovations • Transformative Processes
Prof. Weith's research focuses on urban and regional development, land management, and the facilitation of social innovations and transformative processes within spatial planning.