Prof. Dr. Ulf Hahnel
Prof. Dr. Ulf Hahnel (Chair of Psychology, in particular Collective Action for Sustainability)
25.06.2025, 2.15-3.00 pm, Lecture Hall 4
Title: „A changing climate: Individual and collective sustainable action in an era of rapid transformation“
Prof. Dr. Ulf Hahnel has been Professor of Psychology with a focus on collective action for sustainability at Leuphana University Lüneburg since 2025. He investigates individual and collective decision-making processes in the context of climate change and the energy transition as well as the underlying psychological mechanisms.
One focus of his work is the development of evidence-based behavioral interventions and interdisciplinary methods for integrating psychological insights into energy and climate models. Previously, he worked at the Universities of Freiburg, Geneva and Basel as well as at Fraunhofer ISE, among others.
Title: „A changing climate: Individual and collective sustainable action in an era of rapid transformation“
Abstract: In this lecture, I will present a series of studies illustrating how psychological processes shape both individual and collective sustainable behavior. These processes include the motivated search and processing of (dis)information, the perception of one’s own and others’ climate impact, and judgments about the effectiveness of clean technologies. Using experimental data from various regions around the world, this research further highlights how human behavior is influenced by contextual factors, such as crisis-induced price peaks, national backgrounds, and regional policy conditions. I will moreover present how theory-informed interventions can promote more sustainable behavior, both in isolation and in combination with traditional economic interventions. By integrating psychological decision-making data into (energy/climate) system level models, this research finally shows how individual behavior and evidence-based interventions can lead to changes on the system level and ultimately contribute to a transformation towards sustainability.
Dr.in Maraja Riechers
Dr. Maraja Riechers
04.06.2025, 2.15-3.00 pm, Lecture Hall 5
Dr. Maraja Riechers is an honorary professor and heads the working group "Fisheries and Society". She is active in committees of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) and contributes her expertise as a contributing author to the IPBES Assessment Report on Transformative Change. Among other things, she heads the working group "Ocean Equity for Sustainable Futures" and is involved in the "Pacific Ocean Pathways" project. Her research focuses on sustainability transformation, social justice, human-environment interactions, human-wildlife coexistence, and the co-production of knowledge.
Title: Making Waves: how can marine social science impact policy making?
Abstract:What is marine social science, and how can we even aim to impact policymaking with our research? In my talk, I will give examples from our current research in the South Pacific and at the Baltic Sea in which we analyse human-nature relations in the context of sustainability transformations. I will highlight some of the difficulties of working in marine and coastal social-ecological systems, and give some hopeful examples, of how our research may have more impact than we think.
Prof.in Dr. Daniela Jacob
Prof. Dr. Daniela Jacob
07.05.2025, 3.30-4.15 pm, Lecture Hall 5
Prof. Dr. Daniela Jacob is an honorary professor at Leuphana University Lüneburg and heads the Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS) at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon. She is also head of the Climate Advisory Board of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, the German Committee for Sustainability Research in Future Earth (DKN) and co-head of WPN2030.
Her research focuses on regional climate modeling, climate services, adaptation to climate change and climate-resilient development. As coordinating lead author, she played a key role in the IPCC special report on global warming of 1.5 °C.
Dr.in Tina Heger
Dr. Tina Heger
23.04.2025, 2.15-3.00 pm, Lecture Hall 5
Dr. Tina Heger is an honorary professor at the Department of Biology at the Technical University of Munich and project leader at the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB). Her research focuses on biological invasions, ecological novelty, theory and methods of ecology as well as biodiversity conservation and future natural conditions.
Title: Interdisciplinary Approaches for a Nature-Positive Future: Synthesizing Knowledge for Restoration and Reimagining Human-Nature Connections
Prof.in Dr. Ines Dombrowsky
Prof. Dr. Ines Dombrowsky
05.06.2024, 14:15-15:00, Lecture Hall 5
Prof. Dr. Ines Dombrowsky is an honorary professor at the Institute for Sustainability Management at the Faculty of Sustainability. She heads the Governance-Environment department at the German Institute for Development and Sustainability, specializing in institutional economics. She works on various topics, including the use of natural resources, integrated water resource management and the transformation of water governance.
Title: The water-energy-food-ecosystems nexus as governance challenge – insights from research in low- and middle-income countries
Prof. Dr. Daniel Fischer
Prof. Dr. Daniel Fischer
08.05.2024, 14:15-15:00, Lecture Hall 5
Prof.Dr. Daniel Fischer is Professor of Education for Sustainable Development and Sachunterricht at the Institute for Sustainability Education and Psychology in the Faculty of Sustainability. He researches how consumption patterns develop over time and in different cultural contexts and how more sustainable ways of living and consuming can be promoted through communication and learning.
Title: A New Hope: Learning to Live Well within Limits
Prof.in Dr.in Dörte Fouquet
Prof.in Dr.in Dörte Fouquet
06.12.2023, 14:15-15:00 pm, Lecture Hall 5
Prof. Dr. Dörte Fouquet is an honorary professor at the Institute of Sustainability Governance in the Faculty of Sustainability. She deals with the legal challenges of the energy transition and issues in the field of nuclear law. She is a lawyer and member of the Scientific and Strategic Advisory Board of the Institute for Climate Protection, Energy and Mobility (IKEM).
Title: Nuclear energy, transparency, and sustainability—an attempt at a critical legal and historical assessment
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Prof. Dr. Jelena Bäumler
Prof. Dr. Jelena Bäumler
24.06.2020, 14:00
Prof.in Dr. Jelena Bäumler is Professor of Public and International Law with a Focus on Sustainability. She will give her inaugural lecture on 24.06.2020.
Prof. Dr. Thorsten Müller
Prof. Dr. Thorsten Müller
03.05.2023, 14:15-15:00 Uhr, HS 5
Prof. Dr. Thorsten Müller is an honorary professor at the Faculty of Sustainability. Thorsten Müller is the initiator and co-founder of the Environmental Energy Law Foundation and is its scientific director and chairman. His research focuses on the European and national law of renewable energies, the requirements for instrument networks, and the law of climate protection governance.
Title of his inaugural lecture:
Reform of the Federal Climate Protection Act: More or less climate protection?
Prof.in Dr.in Claudia Kemfert
Prof. Dr. Claudia Kemfert
07.12.2022, 12:15 pm, Room C40.501
Prof. Dr. Claudia Kemfert is Professor of Energy Economics and Energy Policy at the Institute for Sustainability Management at the Faculty of Sustainability. She is head of the Energy, Transport, and Environment Department at the German Institute for Economic Research and advises research institutions, federal and state ministries, and the European Commission.
Her inaugural lecture is entitled:
Energy Transition in Times of Multiple Crises: Challenges and Opportunities
Prof.in Dr.in Astrid Kause
Prof. Dr. Astrid Kause
30.11.2022, 12:15 pm, Room C40.501
Prof. Dr. Astrid Kause is a junior professor of sustainability science and psychology at the Institute for Sustainability Education and Psychology in the Faculty of Sustainability. Her research focuses on risks and decisions in the context of climate change, as well as the understanding and communication of climate policy.
Her inaugural lecture is entitled:
Too hot to handle? Changing perceptions of a changing climate using behavioral science
Prof. Dr. Jacob Hörisch
Prof. Dr. Jacob Hörisch
23. November 2022, 12:15 Uhr, Raum C40.501
Prof. Dr. Jacob Hörisch ist Professor für Nachhaltigkeitsökonomie und -management am Centre for Sustainability Management an der Fakultät Nachhaltigkeit. Sein Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement, Sustainable Entrepreneurship, Stakeholder Theory und Nachhaltigkeitsökonomie.
Seine Antrittsvorlesung trägt den Titel:
How to stimulate sustainable decisions? Insights on consumers and crowdfunding investors
Prof.in Dr.in Berta Martín-López
Prof. Dr. Berta Martín-López
16.11.2022, 12:15 pm, Room C40.501
Prof. Dr. Berta Martín-López is Professor of International Sustainable Development and Planning at the Social-Ecological Systems Institute in the Faculty of Sustainability. Her research focuses on the role of values, knowledge, and institutions in supporting transitions to sustainability and examines the impact of research within and outside academia.
Her inaugural lecture is entitled:
Relational paradigms in place-based social-ecological research: insights for the global sustainability agenda
Prof. Dr. Steffen Farny
Prof. Dr. Steffen Farny
09.11. 2022, 12:15 pm, Room C40.501
Prof. Dr. Steffen Farny is a junior professor of International Social and Sustainable Entrepreneurship at the Centre for Sustainability Management at Leuphana University Lüneburg. His research focuses on sustainable entrepreneurship, the role of emotions in organizational processes, and entrepreneurial action in extreme contexts.
His inaugural lecture is entitled:
Weathering the Storm: The Role of Entrepreneurship in Community Recovery after a Disaster
Prof.in Dr. Tanja Mölders
Prof.in Dr. Tanja Mölders
25.06.2019, 17:30, HS 2
After a successful habilitation process at the Faculty of Sustainability, the Venia Legendi is awarded to Prof. Dr. Tanja Mölders. In her teaching and research she deals with topics of environmental planning, specifically with a focus on sustainable spatial development and spatial gender studies. Her habilitation thesis is entitled "The Nature of the Rural. On the conception of social nature relations in rural areas" .
Concluding her habilitation process, she will give a lecture on the topic.
"Space Matters! On the Importance of the Category Space for Sustainability Transformation".
Prof.in Dr. Maja Göpel
Prof.in Dr. Maja Göpel
06.03.2019, 15:45, C40.704
Honorary Professor Dr. Maja Göpel will give her inaugural lecture on 06.03.2019.
Title of her inaugural lecture:
Education and the Great Transformation - challenges and opportunities
Prof.in Dr. Jacqueline Loos
Prof.in Dr. Jacqueline Loos
23.01.2019, 14:00, HS 5
Jaqueline Loos holds the junior professorship for "Sustainable Use of Natural Resources" at the Institute of Ecology since April 2018. Her research focuses on social-ecological research including land use conflicts in countries of the global south (e.g. South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia). Data collection is done in parts of the projects via drone technology. Prof.in Loos is funded by the Robert Bosch Foundation. Prof.in Loos is supported by the Robert-Bosch Foundation.
Title of inaugural lecture:
Sustainability in protected areas: Integrating conservation and development through a justice lens.
Prof. Dr. Felix May
Prof. Dr. Felix May
07.11.2018, 14:00, HS 5
Felix May has been an assistant professor for Quantitative Methods in the Natural Sciences at Leuphana since March 2018. His research focuses on biodiversity and ecosystem dynamics using experimental data collection and simulation model building.
Title of his inaugural lecture:
Integrating models and data for predictive biodiversity and sustainability science.
Prof. Dr. Matthias Bergmann
Dr. Matthias Bergmann
02.05.2018, 14:00, HS 5
(Appointment as Honorary Professor)
Matthias Bergmann will be ceremoniously presented with the certificate of appointment as Honorary Professor on this day. This will be followed by a 30-minute lecture.
From 2011 to 2016, he was already a visiting scholar at Leuphana University at IETSR in the field of transdisciplinary university teaching.
Title of the inaugural lecture:
In Search of Impact - Promoting transdisciplinary research for society and science.
Prof. Dr. David Abson
Prof. Dr. David Abson
24.01.2018, 14:00, HS 5
David Abson is a professor of sustainability economics and valuation at the Center for Sustainability Management. His research focuses on the economics of ecosystem services, socio-ecological systems, and sustainability valuation.
His inaugural lecture is titled:
Sustainability economics: A puzzling piece in the sustainability science jigsaw.
Prof. Dr. Jacob Hörisch
Prof. Dr. Jacob Hörisch
29.11.2017, 14:00, HS 5
Jacob Hörisch is Professor of Sustainability Economics and Management at the Center for Sustainability Management. His research focuses on sustainability management, stakeholder theory, and sustainable entrepreneurship. His research focuses on sustainability management, sustainable entrepreneurship, and stakeholder theory.
His inaugural lecture is titled:
Why economic actors act unsustainably - and how to fix it.
Prof. Dr. Maik Adomßend
apl-Prof. Dr. Maik Adomßent
June 28, 2017, 2:30 pm, HS5
Maik Adomßent is part of the Institute for Environmental Communication and further coordinates the UNESCO Chair Higher Education for Sustainable Development and the College Complementary Studies. He completed his habilitation at Leuphana University Lüneburg in sustainability science.
His inaugural lecture is entitled:
Research and Teaching for Sustainability: from the Global to the Local and Back.
Prof.in Dr. Simone Abels
Prof.in Dr. Simone Abels
07 June 2017, 14:30, HS5
Simone Abels has been Professor for the Didactics of Science at the Institute for Sustainable Chemistry and Environmental Chemistry since February 2017.
Her inaugural lecture is titled:
Learning Workshop as an Inclusive Space for Science Learning.
Prof.in Dr. Julia Leventon
Prof.in Dr. Julia Leventon
April 26, 2017, 2:30 pm, HS5
Julia Leventon has been working at Leuphana University since 2015 in the field of Sustainability and Governance in several projects including Leverage Points for Sustainability Transformation. Since 2016 she holds the junior professorship Sustainability Science.
Her inaugural lecture is titled:
Why do we need to think about governance of place for sustainability?