People at the ZIN

Postdoc @ ZIN & Innovation Hub Management "Socio-ecological Sustainability" in ULYSSEUS

Room 448
Heisenbergstraße 2
48151 Münster

Telephone: +49 251 83-30103

daniela.pastoors@uni-muenster.de

Scientists at the ZIN

Scientists from 13 faculties at the University of Münster are involved in ZIN.

Click on a faculty to see a list of all scientists from that department who are involved in ZIN:

• FB 1 – Faculty of Protestant Theology
• FB 2 – Faculty of Catholic Theology
• FB 3 – Faculty of Law
• FB 4 – School of Business and Economics
• FB 6 – Faculty of Educational and Social Sciences
• FB 7 – Faculty of Psychology/Sport and Exercise Sciences
• FB 8 – Faculty of History and Philosophy
• FB 9 – Faculty of Philology
• FB 10 – Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
• FB 11 – Faculty of Physics
• FB 12 – Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy
• FB 13 – Faculty of Biology
• FB 14 – Faculty of Geosciences

ZIN-Scientists from FB 1 – Faculty of Protestant Theology

• Johanna Baumann, Mag. theol. (Seminary for Reformed Theology)

johanna.baumann@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Belief and Identity; Alienation Phenomena; Theological Gender Studies

• Prof. Dr. Anne Käfer (Seminary for Reformed Theology)

kaefer@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Ethics of justice; animal/environmental ethics; Reformed and Lutheran theology; Schleiermacher research; anthropology and artificial intelligence

• Jun.-Prof. Dr. Markus Rüsch (Department of Religious Studies and Inter-Faith Theology)

markus.ruesch@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Philosophy of religion; aesthetics of religion; religious environmental ethics (especially from the perspective of Buddhism); theories of religious studies; Japanese Buddhism

• Prof. Dr. Simone Sinn (Department of Religious Studies and Inter-Faith Theology)

simone.sinn@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Narratives on sustainability, ecology and creation in different religions and cultures; connection of epistemological and ethical questions of sustainability; agency of different actors in the socio-ecological transformation

ZIN-Scientists from FB 2 – Faculty of Catholic Theology

• Prof. Dr. Marianne-Heimbach-Steins (Institute for Christian Social Sciences)

m.heimbach-steins@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Justice, human rights ethics; Christian traditions and sustainability; social ethics for the society of long life

• Prof. Dr. Judith Könemann (Department of Religious Education, Educational and Gender Research, Institute for Religious Education and Pastoral Theology)

j.koenemann@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Foundations and justification of religious education; extracurricular education; poverty and education (educational justice); school pastoral care and school development; religiosity research; religion in the public sphere; religion and biography, biographical learning; group psychology - dynamics and processes in groups; empirical theology / qualitative-empirical social research

ZIN-Scientists from FB 3 – Faculty of Law

• Prof. Dr. Stefan Arnold (Chair for Private Law, Philosophy of Law, and Private International Law)

stefan.arnold@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Private law; philosophy of law; private international law and comparative law; sustainability and law; artificial intelligence (from the perspective of legal doctrine and philosophy of law)

• Daniel Ehmann (Institute of Environmental and Planning Law)

daniel.ehmann@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Public law; environmental and planning law; climate law 

• Prof. Dr. Patrick Hilbert (Professor of Public Law, Managing Director of the Institute of Environmental and Planning Law)

patrick.hilbert@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Public law (constitutional and administrative law); environmental law, in particular climate adaptation law; intradisciplinarity in law

ZIN-Scientists from FB 4 – School of Business and Economics

• Prof. Dr. Tobias Brandt (Professor for Digital Innovation and the Public Sector, Department of Information Systems)

tobias.brandt@ercis.uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Smart and sustainable cities; Digital transformation; Digital innovation; Data-driven decision-making

• Apl. Prof. Dr. Sonja Gensler (Chair of Value-Based Marketing, Marketing Center Münster)

s.gensler@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Impact of digital transformation on market-oriented management; Relevance of societal change for marketing

• Dr. Lea Püchel (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; Sustainability measurements; Data management; Green IS; Green IT

ZIN-Scientists from FB 6 – Faculty of Educational and Social Sciences

• Prof. Dr. Svenja Ahlhaus (Assistant Professorship for Political Theory, Institute for Political Science)

svenja.ahlhaus@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Political Theory and Democratic Theory; Sustainabbility in Political Theory; Political Representation in the Ecological Crisis, Animal Politics; Politics and Religion; International Political Theory, Feminist and Critical Theory; Political Representation, Legitimate Institutions, Democratic Innovations; Law and Courts, Strategic Litigation; Citizenship, Membership, Migration, Asylum

• Dr. Carolin Bohn (Centre for Interdisciplinary Sustainability Research)

carolin.bohn@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Democracy and Sustainability; (deliberative) citizen participation in the context of sustainability; citizenship in the context of sustainability/environmental citizenship; environmental virtue ethics, especially: political judgment formation

• Prof. Dr. Thomas Dietz (International Relations and Law, Institute for Political Science)

thomas.dietz@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Sustainable Development; Transnational Governance; Law & Politics; International Law

• Dr. Raphael Fehrmann (Working Group Primary School Pedagogy, Institute of Education)

raphael.fehrmann@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Acquisition and promotion of digital skills among (primary) school students, realization of digital education in schools and lessons; making/maker education (production of explanation videos by students, programming of learning robots, etc.) in (primary) schools in connection with issues of heterogeneity/inclusion, education for sustainable development and transformative learning; promotion of professional digital skills among student teachers and (primary) school teachers

• Prof. Dr. Christian Fischer (Professorship of Educational Science with a focus on Giftedness Research/Individual Promotion, Working Group on Giftedness Research/Individual Promotion, Institute of Education)

fiscchr@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Sustainable potential development; education for sustainable development; diversity and teacher training

• Dr. Christiane Fischer-Ontrup (Professorship of Educational Science with a focus on Giftedness Research/Individual Promotion, Working Group on Giftedness Research/Individual Promotion, Institute of Education)

ch.fischer-ontrup@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Giftedness research and promotion; individual promotion; early childhood education

• Dr. Rebecca Froese (Chair of International Relations and Sustainale Development, Institute for Political Science)

rebecca.froese@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Sustainale Development; Social-Ecological Systems & Tipping Points; Human-Environmental Interactions; Latin America (in particular Brazil, Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador); Universities in the social-ecological transformation; Global Change; Social-ecological Peace and Conflict Research; Land, Environmental and Resource Governance

• Prof. Doris Fuchs, Ph. D. (Chair of International Relations and Sustainale Development, Institute for Political Science)

doris.fuchs@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Sustainable Consumption and Limits to Growth; Democracy, Power, Participation & Sustainability; Global Sustainability Governance: Energy, Climate, Environment, Agrifood, Finance; Sustainability, Justice & Responsibility

• Prof. Dr. Antonia Graf (Juniorprofessor for Global Environmental Governance, Institute for Political Science)

antoniag@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Theories of International Political Economy; Global Environmental Governance; Norms in International Relations; Participation in and Acceptance of the Energy Transition; Intersectionality

• Prof. Dr. Matthias Grundmann (Professorship of Socialization, Institute of Sociology)

matthias.grundmann@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Sociology of Socialization: Theoretical and Empirical Socialization Research; Educational Sociology: Empirical Educational Research, Social Structure of Socialization and Education; Community and sustainability research; Sociology of social relationships)

• Dr. Tobias Gumbert (Innovation Hub „Socio-ecological Sustainability“, ULYSSEUS)

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

• Niklas Haarbusch, M.A. (Professorship of Socialization (Prof. Grundmann), Institute of Sociology)

n_haar02@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Climate movement; Political socialization; Sociological theory; Qualitative social research

• Julia Hansel, M.Sc. (Juniorprofessorship for Globale Environmental Governance, Institute for Political Science)

julia.hansel@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Global and European environmental governance; Sustainable urban mobility; Inter- /Multimodality, Mobility Hubs, Mobility Justice; Sustainable transformation and strategies of sustainablity; Climate protection policies on local level

• Jessica Hoffmann, M.A. (Professorship of Socialization (Prof. Grundmann), Institute of Sociology)

jessica.hoffmann@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Social movements and civil society engagement; political education and socialization; sustainable urban and neighbourhood development; qualitative social research

• Prof. Dr. Sigrid Kannengießer (Professor of Communication Studies with a focus on Media Sociology, Department of Communication)

sigrid.kannengiesser@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Digital media, artificial intelligence and sustainability; sustainable consumption and digitalization; socio-ecological-economic consequences of digitalization, datafication and automated communication; environmental movements and media; gender studies, media and sustainability

• Hannah Klinkenborg, M.A. (Chair of International Relations and Sustainale Development, Institute of Political Science)

hklinken@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: European and international climate politicy; Religious actors; Gloal Governnance

• Dr. Marcus Kohnen (Working Group on Giftedness Research/Individual Promotion, Institute of Education)

m.kohnen@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: LemaS NRW; Education for sustainable development; Critical thinking; Digital teaching-learning settings

• Dr. Dennis Krämer (Institute for Sociology)

dennis.kramer@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Gender Diversity; Sociology of Sport, Technology, and Body; Technological resilience and crisis research; Qualitative Research Methods; Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education

• Benedikt Lennartz, M.A. (Chair of International Relations and Sustainable Development, Institute of Political Science)

benedikt.lennartz@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Economy and Human Rights; Global Governance

• Dr. Pia Mamut (Chair of International Relations and Sustainable Development, Institute of Political Science)

p.mamut@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Social-ecological Transformation; Environmental Governance; Sustainability & Democracy; Sufficiency; Power and Discourse; Energy Policy

• Dr. Anne Mollen (Department of Communication)

anne.mollen@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Sustainibility of AI; Ethics of AI;  Automation and data-centered technologies; Digital self-determination; Generative AI and social knowledge production

• Carsten Ohlrogge, M.A. (Professorship of Socialization (Prof. Grundmann), Institute of Sociology)

carsten.ohlrogge@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Social theory; Sociology of science and technology; Transdisciplinary and transformative sustainability research

• Dr. David Rott (Working Group on Giftedness Research/Individual Promotion, Institute of Education)

david.rott@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Teacher education; Student promotion; Research-based learning; Critical thinking

• Anica Roßmöller, M.A. (Institute for Political Science)

anica.rossmoeller@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Global Governance; Faith-based actors in international relations; Diffusion and translation of norms, localization processes; Focus on India as an actor in International Relations and Indian environmental politics

• Fynn Schmidt, M.A. (Chair of International Relations and Sustainable Development, Institute for Political Science)

fynn.schmidt@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Socio-ecological transformation; (alternatives to) development; Political economy of the energy transition; Universities in the sustainability transformation; Latin America (especially Mesoamerica)

• Dr. Karen Siegel (Junior research group “Transformation and Sustainability Governance in South American Bioeconomies”, Institute for Political Science)

karen.siegel@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Politics of sustainable development and sustainability transitions; Natural resource governance in the global political economy; Bioeconomy governance; Regionalism; Latin America

• Lena Siepker, M.Sc. Mag. theol. (Chair of International Relations and Sustainable Development, Institute of Political Science)

lena.siepker@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Sustainable development and the common good; Participation research and social inequality; Research methods in digital humanities

• Prof. Dr. Helena Stehle (Group Strategic Communication II, Department of Communication)

helena.stehle@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Strategic communication; Organisational communication; Sustainability and energy communication; Digital (in-)visibility; Digital journalism

• Dr. Björn Wendt (Professorship of Socialization (Prof. Grundmann), Institute of Sociology)

bjoern.wendt@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Sustainability research/environmental sociology; Utopia research/sociology of knowledge; Protest and movement research/political sociology; Power structure research/critical elite sociology; Poverty and wealth research/social inequality; Urban and regional sociology

• Prof. Dr. Ulrike Weyland (Professorship for Educational Science with a focus on Professional Education, Institute of Education)

ulrike.weyland@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Professionalization of school and company training staff; Research-based learning in teacher training; Skills modelling and measurement in professional education; Transition research: focus on vocational orientation; Health promotion in professional education; Digitalization in professional education

• Julia Wiethüchter, M.A. (Chair of International Relations and Sustainable Development, Institute of Political Science)

julia.wiethuechter@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Global power structures; Sustainable development; Epistemic injustice; Sociology of science

• Prof. Dr. Horst Zeinz (Professorship for Educational Science with a focus on Primary School Education, Institute of Education)

horst.zeinz@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Empirical (primary) school research: optimization of teaching/learning processes; Professionalization of teaching staff and accompanying pedagogical research (school development)

ZIN-Scientists from FB 7 – Faculty of Psychology/Sport and Exercise Sciences

• Prof. Dr. Mitja Back (Backlab Personality & Assesment, Department of Psychology)

mitja.back@wwu.de

Research areas: Society's divisions, conflict and solidarity; Inter-individual differences in social and political attitudes; Personality, social interactions, social relationships; Personality dynamics and development

• Gesche Barg, M.Sc. (Work unit Diagnostics and Evaluation in the School Context, Institute for Psychology in Education)

g_barg01@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Education for sustainable development; Evaluation research; Environmental psychology

• Laura Bilfinger, M.Sc. (Work unit Social-psychological foundations of education and teaching, Institute for Psychology in Education)

l.bilfinger@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Effect of climate change communication; Psychological reactance 

• Prof. Dr. Guido Hertel (Chair of Organisational and Business Psychology)

ghertel@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Behaviour in organizations; digitalization of work; demographic change and migration; trust and cooperation; negotiation research

• Prof. Dr. Regina Jucks (Head of the work unit Social Psychological Foundations of Education and Teaching, Scientific Director of the Center for University Teaching, Institute for Psychology in Education)

jucks@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Communication and interaction in teaching and learning contexts, mainly in the context of digitalization and in the university context; science communication

• Dr. Ahlke Kip (Coordination ReCAP: Culturally Adapted Psychotherapy for Refugees, Clinical Psychology,
  Psychotherapy, and Health Psychology, Department of Psychology)

a.kip@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Impact of war and forced migration on mental health; Impact of natural disasters on mental health; Climate change and epidemiology of mental disorders

• Prof. Dr. Nexhmedin Morina (Professor of Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Health Psychology, Department of Psychology)

morina@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Social and cognitive mechanisms of posttraumatic stress disorders, anxiety , and depression; Efficacy of psychological interventions; Comparison processes in judgment and well-being; Impact of traumatic events and forced migration on mental health; Psychological impacts of natural disasters and extreme weather events; Psychological interventions to promote more climate-friendly behaviours; Systematic reviews and meta-analyses

• Simin Ziegler, M.Sc. (Work unit Prof. Dr. Guido Hertel, Chair of Organisational and Business Psychology)

simin.ziegler@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Climate and environmental psychology in organizations; Employees & Greenwashing

ZIN-Scientists from FB 8 – Faculty of History and Philosophy

• Prof. Dr. Hans Beck (Department of Ancient History/Institute of Epigraphy)

hans.beck@uni-muenster.de

• Prof. Dr. Achim Lichtenberger (Institute for Classical Archaeology and Christian Archaeology/Archaeological Museum)

lichtenb@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Settlement archaeology; Greek-Roman Near East; Iconography, ancient religion, numismatics; Landscape

• Prof. Dr. Michael Quante (Department of Philosophy)

michael.quante@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Philosophy of the person; Philosophy of German idealism; Theory of agency; Ethics; Biomedical ethics; Philosophy of law and social philosophy

ZIN-Scientists from FB 9 – Faculty of Philology

• Prof. Dr. Asmaa El Maaroufi (Department of Islamic Philosophy with a focus on Islamic Ethics, Center for Islamic Theology (ZIT))

asmaa.elmaaroufi@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Creation theology; Anthropology; Animal and environmental ethics; Intersectionality research; Religions and social-ecological transformations

• Dr. Robert Matthias Erdbeer (Department of Modern German Literature, Institute of German Studies)

erdbeer@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Literary Modelling

• Prof. Dr. Angelika Lohwasser (Professur für Ägyptologie, Institut für Ägyptologie und Koptologie)

a.lohwasser@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: The kingdom of Kush (8th century BC - 4th century AD) in ancient Sudan; Bayuda desert: Communication routes and cultures far from centers; Biographies of archaeological objects; Archaeological cultural anthropology

• Dr. Kerstin Wilhelms (Department of Modern German Literature, Institute of German Studies)

k.wilhelms@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Climate crisis and theater; Theater and drama research; The political in literature; Law and literature; Model theory; Autobiography research; Space and time theories; Media studies approaches; Gender studies

ZIN-Scientists from FB 10 – Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science

• Prof. Dr. Anne Remke (Head of safety-critical systems group, Computer Science Department)

anne.remke@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Critical infrastructures; Control of smart grids, decentralized storage media; Reliability, security and sustainability

• Prof. Dr. Benjamin Risse (Computer Vision and Machine Learning Systems Group, Institute for Geoinformatics)

b.risse@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Quantitative analyses of insects in natural habitats

ZIN-Scientists from FB 11 – Faculty of Physics

• Apl. Prof. Dr. Christian Klein-Bösing (Group of Anton Andronic,Institute for Nuclear 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 action by school students; Experiment-based learning on sustainability topics and basic research

ZIN-Scientists from FB 12 – Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy

• Dr. Adrienne Hammerschmidt (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

• Prof. Dr. Joachim Jose (Chair of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, Institute for Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry)

joachim.jose@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Bioeconomy; Enzymatic conversion of plant biomass into basic chemicals; Biotechnology-based sustainable chemistry; Enzyme recycling

• Prof. Dr. Martin Winter (MEET - Münster Electrochemical Energy Technology)

martin.winter@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Lithium-ion batteries; Lithium-metal systems (solid, sulphur, air, etc.); Dual-ion batteries; supercapacitors (incl. lithium-ion capacitors and hybrid capacitors); Alternative, lithium-free systems

ZIN-Scientists from FB 13 – Faculty of Biology

• Dr. Johannes Holert (Microbial Biotechnology and Ecology - Research group Prof. Dr. Bodo Philipp, Institute of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology)

Johannes.holert@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: General Microbiology; Microbial Biotechnology; Microbial Ecology

• Prof. Dr. Bodo Philipp (Microbial Biotechnology and Ecology - Research group Prof. Dr. Bodo Philipp, Institute of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology)

bodo.philipp@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Microbial Biotechnology; Microbial Ecology; Bioeconomy and circular economy

• Prof. Dr. Dirk Prüfer (Plant Biotechnology, Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology)

dpruefer@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Molecular Plant Biotechnology

• Prof. Dr. Helene Richter (Department of Behavioural Biology, Institute for Neuro- and Behavioural Biology)

richterh@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Refinement of animal experiments and housing conditions; Reproducibility and generalizability of animal experiments; Animal welfare; Cognition and emotion; Animal welfare and animal personality

• Prof. Dr. Jochen Schmid (Schmid lab – Metabolic Engineering und Mikrobielle Polysaccharide, Institute of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology)

jochen.schmid@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Microbial biotechnology; Biopolymers; Bioeconomy; Use of renewable resources

• Prof. Dr. Bettina Zeis (Ecophysiology Group, Institute of Integrative Cell Biology and Physiology)

zeis@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Adaptation of aquatic organisms to changes in environmental conditions; Impact of environmental stressors on the physiology of small crustaceans

ZIN-Scientists from FB 14 – Faculty of Geosciences

• Prof. Dr. Tillmann Buttschardt (Research Group Applied Landscape Ecology and Ecological Planning, Institute of Landscape Ecology)

tillmann.buttschardt@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Integrated natural ressources management and ecological planning; Detection of landscape changes (UAV, TLS); Transformative aproaches in landscape ecology / resilience of human-environmental-systems /Human attachment to environment/Deep Adaptation

• Dr. Yusif Idies (Professorship for local, regional and land development/area planning (Prof. Mössner), Institute for Geography)

idies@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Geographies of consumption and disposal; Sustainable urban development/planning; Cultural environmental research & nature-culture relations (environmental humanities); Body, subject and self-techniques

• Prof. Dr. Christian Kray (Group Situated Computing and Interaction Lab (SITCOM), Institute for Geoinformatics)

c.kray@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Smart City; Citizen participation and sustainability through technology

• Prof. Dr. Samuel Mössner (Spatial planning and sustainaility group, Institute for Geography)

moessner@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Sustainable urban development; Governance research; Spatial planning; Planning conflicts

• Dr. Cornelia Steinhäuser (Research Group Applied Landscape Ecology and Ecological Planning, Institute of Landscape Ecology)

cornelia.steinhaeuser@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Agroecology and territories, International conventions on landscape protection and development, Intangible values in landscape perceptions and management, Interdisciplinary research methods for social-ecological systems (SES)

ZIN-Scientists from other institutions

• Dr. Dörthe Masemann (MExLab ExperiMINTe)

d.masemann@uni-muenster.de

Research areas: Experiment-based learning for children and young people on sustainability topics; science transfer; House of Little Scientists Münster