Dr. Kerstin Krellenberg
Division of Social Sciences
Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology
Working Group Climate Change
Working Group Urban and Regional Research
Helmholtz Centre
for Environmental Research - UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany
phone: ++49 - 341 - 235 1608
fax: ++49 - 341 - 235 1836
Kerstin Krellenberg
Areas of Expertise & Research
Megacities, Climate Adaptation, Urban Development, Risks and Urban Vulnerability, Participatory Processes, Urban Ecology, Latin America, Geomatics
Curriculum Vitae
2012/2013
Istanbul Policy Centre - IPC
Sabancı University, Istanbul
Mercator-IPC Fellow
Since 10/2007
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Research Assistant
Scientific coordination
09/2009-12/2012: "ClimateAdaptationSantiago" (CAS) project
10/2007-02/2011: "Risk Habitat Megacity" (RHM) Research Initiative
2013-2015 Head of Helmholtz International Research Group (Chilean/German cooperation), together with Dr. Felipe Link
"Climate change adaptation options in Santiago de Chile and other Latin American megacities - Urban vulnerability on local level"
06/2007 - 10/2007
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Postdoc in the DFG-Research Training Group 780/2 "Perspectives of Urban Ecology - Shrinking cities"
05/2007
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
PhD in Geography
04/2004 - 04/2006
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
NaFöG-PhD Scholarship from the State of Berlin
09/2002 - 04/2004
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Collaboration on the DAAD/PROALAR research project "Perspectives of urban ecology for the metropolis Buenos Aires"
10/1996 - 01/2002
University of Vechta
Study of "Environmental Sciences"
Current Projects
POFII Project "Mega-Trend Urbanisation: Vulnerability and Environmental Risks"
Helmholtz International Research Group "Climate change adaptation options in Santiago de Chile and other Latin American megacities - Urban vulnerability on local level" (head of project, together with Dr. Felipe Link from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
Project 
"ClimateAdaptationSantiago" (CAS) (project coordination)
Completed projects
Research Initiative "Risk Habitat Megacity" (project coordination)
Publications
Academic Services
since 2011
since 2011
since 2010
Member of Expert working group of the ETC/CCA European Topic Centre on Climate Change Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation
Member of Scientific Advisory Board of the Programme "Effect Studies and Adaptation to Climate Change" of the Top-level Research Initiative (TRI)
Reviewer for DAAD commission 'Megacities'
Most recent press releases
Teaching
at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
SS 2010
SS 2005
SS 2005
WS 2004/05
Project Seminar: Urban Ecosystem Services (Megacities)
Seminar: Problem-oriented analysis with GIS
Seminar: Evaluation and modellation with geomatics
Excursion: Argentina, in cooperation with Prof. Dr. W. Endlicher
Supervision of thesis (ongoing)
University Dresden: Wissenstransfer in der Klimaanpassung - Das Beispiel Santiago de Chile und die Kommunen Pedro Aguirre Cerda und La Florida
University Leipzig: Cross-cutting character of adaptation to climate change - Motivations and obstacles to implementation, the case of Santiago de Chile
