Guest Lectures
In the course of guest lectures, scientists, who are already well established in the scientific community, report on results of their latest research or on political strategies. These lectures take place several times a year and are specifically geared towards the DK audience, which is characterized by a diversity of disciplines. Most lecturers agree to be available for a subsequent informal meeting with the DK students, where the students can present and discuss their research projects or personal issues, such as career options, with the lecturer.
Guest lectures in the doctoral programme:
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 03.07.2018 | Prof. Masaki Hayashi, Department of Geosciences, University of Calgary, Canada | Alpine Hydrogeology: The Critical Role of Groundwater in Sourcing the Headwaters of the World |
| 29.05.2018 | Prof. Todd Halihan, Department of Geology, Oklahoma State University, USA | The Future of Water: Data or Instincts? |
| 24.05.2018 | Prof. Stephen Gardiner, Department of Philosophy, University of Washington, USA | Motivating (or Baby-Stepping towards) a Global Constitutional Convention for Future Generations |
| 08.05.2028 | Priv. Doz. Dr. Barbara Ammon, Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy, Potsdam, Germany | Challenges of emission inventory reporting: activity data, emission factors and models |
| 17.04.2018 | Prof. Dr. Jonatan Pinkse, Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester, UK | Corporate Sustainability: Topics, theories and methods |
| 12.04.2018 | Prof. Anxo Calvo, University of Coruña, Spain | The technological and environmental efficiency of the EU-27 energy-mix: An evaluation based on Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) |
| 09.04.2018 | Jonas Lang, Ghent University, Belgium | Modeling Consensus Emergence in Groups Using Longitudinal Multilevel Methods |
| 05.04.2018 | Prof. Dr. Claudia Cassardo, Department of Physics and NatRisks Center, University of Turin, Italy | UTOPIA land surface model and IVINE crop model: an integrated tool to support vineyard management and to evidence effects of climate change |
| 15.02.2018 | Dr. Jana Sillmann, CICERO Center for International Climate Research, Oslo, Norway | Understanding and modeling weather and climate extremes: Challenges and opportunities for science and society |
| 09.06.2017 | Prof. Kamini Singha, Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, USA; 2017 Henry Darcy Distinguished Lecturer | The Critical Role of Trees in Critical Zone Science: An Exploration of Water Fluxes in the Earth’s Permeable Skin |
| 08.06.2017 | Prof. Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, USA | My Life in Philosophy: The Point of View of the Universe and Its Implications for Ethics, Animal Liberation and Effective Altruism. |
| 16.05.2017 | Prof. Randolf Rausch, Institute of Applied Geosciences (IAG), Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany | Will we die of thirst? How scarce is our water? An analysis of the world water situation |
| 20.04.2017 | Prof. Detlef F. Sprinz, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) & University of Potsdam, Germany | The Effectiveness of Climate Clubs under Donald Trump |
| 29.03.2017 | Dr. Aurélie Halsband, German Reference Centre for Ethics in the Life Sciences, Univ. of Bonn, Bonn, Germany | Employing the concept of capabilities to specify intergenerational conservation duties |
| 26.01.2017 | Prof. Dr. Roland Potthast, Head of Data Assimilation at Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), Offenbach/Main, Germany | High-resolution extreme weather forecasting and perspectives under climate change |
| 25.11.2016 | Prof. Dr. Carolien Kroeze, Chair of the Water Systems and Global Change Group, WU Environmental Sciences, Wageningen UR, NL | Food Production and Water Pollution under a Changing Climate–A Global Modeling Perspective |
| 18.11.2016 | Prof. Dr. Ty Ferré, Professor, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Arizona, USA; 2016 Henry Darcy Distinguished Lecturer | Seeing Things Differently: Rethinking the Relationship Between Data, Models, and Decision-Making |
| 10.11.2016 | Dipl. Geophysiker Ernst Rauch, Head of Corporate Climate Centre, Munich Re, Munich, Germany | Multilevel issues in climate change risk management for the global insurance sector |
| 28.06.2016 | Dr. Susanne Leikam, American Studies, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany | Entangling Transnational American Studies and the Environment |
| 23.06.2016 | Prof. Dr. Stuart Lane, Director, Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, Faculty of Geosciences and Environment, University of Lausanne, CH | Climate warming and the landscape effects of rapidly retreating Alpine glaciers: a geomorphological crisis in the making? |
| 09.06.2016 | Prof. Dr. Thomas Pogge, Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs, Yale Philosophy Department, New Haven, CT, USA | Individual Responsibility for Climate Change |
| 24.05.2016 | Prof. Dr. Roland Barthel, Leader of the Hydrogeology Group, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden | Groundwater and Climate Change: Disciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches for impact assessment and development of adaptation strategies |
| 26.02.2016 | Prof. Dr. Peter Hoeppe, Munich Re, Head of Geo Risks Research/Corporate Climate Centre, Munich, Germany | Risks and Chances of Climate Change for the Insurance Industry |
| 25.11.2015 | Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Günter Blöschl, Institute of Hydrology and Water Resource Management, Vienna University of Technology, Austria | Floods in a changing world |
| 19.11.2015 | Prof. Dr. Gabriel Wollner, Integrative Research Institutes (IRIs) developed by Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany | Warming up to moderate injustice? On the moral force of better-than-nothing-but-less-than-perfect solutions to climate change. |
| 04.11.2015 | Prof. Dr. Peter Driessen, Utrecht University, Faculty of Geosciences, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Netherlands | The position of the social sciences in climate adaptation research: taking stock and looking forward |
| 02.06.2015 | Dr. Ivo Wallimann-Helmer, Centre for Ethics, University Research Priority Program for Ethics, Univ. of Zürich, CH | Does Responsible Democracy Require Climate Justice? |
| 28.05.2015 | Prof. Dr. Bjorn Stevens, Max Planck Inst. for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany | Aerosol Forcing: Last Century’s Problem |
| 07.05.2015 | Prof. Charlotte Werndl, Department of Philosophy, University of Salzburg, Austria, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, London, School of Economics and Political Science, UK | On Defining Climate and Climate Change |
| 04.05.2015 | Dr. David Kanter, Earth Institute, Columbia University, NY, United States | Teaching an old dog new tricks: Reducing emissions of an important environmental pollutant without new legislation |
| 24.03.2015 | Dr. Reinhard Mechler, Deputy Head of Risk Policy and Vulnerability Group at IIASA and Institute for Ecological Economics, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria | Climate Adaptation and Risk Management: State of Discussion and Implications |
| 19.03.2015 | Prof. Andreas Lang, School of Environ. Sciences, Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool, UK | Earth Surface Dynamics during the Anthropocene |
