Adelheid Biesecker

Work areas: Micro-economics under a socio-ecological perspective, ecological economics, feminist economics

Claudia von Braunmühl

Work areas: globalisation and global governance, state theory, basic rights and democracy, citizenship and civil society. Plus: Gender roles in Globalisation, gender mainstreaming and political theory dimensions of global governance, gender dimensions of violent conflicts

Reinhild Bode

Work areas: Participatory and gender-oriented planning, Netzwerk Amazonasgemeinden, added value chains, alternative strategies for agricultural research, co-financing in irrigation systems

Susanne Böhler

Work areas: Transportation policy and planning, energy efficiency policy in the transportation sector, traffic behaviour of households and companies

Manfred Fischedick

Work areas: Energy-system- and energy-scenario-analysis, renewable energies and new energy technics, national and international energy- and climate policy

Justus von Geibler

Work areas: indicators of Sustainability and reporting at corporate and sectoral level, governance structures for sustainable production and consumption, life-cycle wide sustainability assessment of emerging technologies, sustainable forestry and wood industry

André Holtrup

Work areas: sociology of industry, sociology of work, subject-oriented investigation of work relationships, new governance forms of work

Wolfgang Irrek

Work areas: National and international framework conditions, strategies and instruments in energy industry and energy policy in the context of liberalisation and sustainability

Michael Kopatz

Work areas: Participation and sustainability, institutional change of policy towards sustainability, sustainable urban development, sustainable welfare, energy efficiency in poor households, environment and health

Kora Kristof

Work areas: Research on innovation and diffusion, institutional change for a policy of sustainability, renewable raw materials, energy policy and economy, energy and eco-efficient services, economic and ecological PAMs and institutions, aims/indicators of sustainable development, Agenda 21, future of work

Manfred Linz

Work areas: Eco-sufficiency and quality of life, social learning, mass media, development policy and sustainability

Rainer Lucas

Work areas: Innovation and communication in regional and local networks, sustainability strategies of management in the event and trade fair industry, development of infrastructure among governments and markets, in particular regarding waste management as resource management

Hans Jochen Luhmann

Fred Luks

Work areas: Sustainable development, economical construction of ecological reality, history of economic concepts and the issue of growth

Stephan Moll

Work areas: International statistical analyses of ecological and und socio-economic impacts/causalities regarding more sustainable  consumption and production patterns

Thomas Orbach

Work areas: resource efficiency in enterprises, banks and sustainability, sustainable investment

Hermann E. Ott

Work areas: Climate and environmental policy and law, esp. international law and politics

Birthe Paul

Work areas: Environment and development educational work, European Studies, South-North justice, sustainable lifestyles

Barbara Richard

Work areas: Energy industry and climate protection

Dorle Riechert

Work areas: Public relations, scientific services

Oscar Reutter

Work areas: Mobility and Transport, regional development and environmental quality, pilot projects for a sustainable mobility management, co-operative planning and research management

Isabel van de Sand

Work areas: Integrated Sustainability Analysis (ISA), analysis of socio-industrial metabolism

Tilman Santarius

Work areas: International climate policy, WTO and policy, global governance

Gerhard Scherhorn

Work areas: Sustainable lifestyles, work and environment, information and service society, Informal economic activity, ethical-ecological assessment of enterprises, sustainable consumption, market evolution

Julia Schlüns

Work areas: Social justice in climate and environment policy, environmental ethics, social sustainability

Helmut Spitzley

Work areas: Work and occupation policy, flexibility of work(ing time), compatibility of occupation and family, new forms of governance, work and ecology

Mark Starmanns

Work areas: Ethical trade, corporate responsibility, multi-stakeholder Initiatives, global governance, social and ecological standards

Nikolaus Supersberger

Work areas: Energy systems (scenarios, security aspects, vulnerability) and their impact on international co-operations and conflicts with a focus on the Persian Gulf and the OPEC

Uta von Winterfeld

Work areas: Critical analysis of societal relationship to nature, sustainable work policies and new social contracts, crisis of the welfare state, globalisation and global governance.