Environmental Impacts and Monitoring


Above-ground landuse

Expert Expertise
Prof. Dr. Karin Frank
Department of Ecological Modelling
Ecological and agent-based social-ecological modelling, risk analysis
Modelling (above-ground) land use change driven by the energy transition, ecological impacts on biodiversity & ecosystem services, evaluation & design of policy instruments
Dr. Marcus Eichhorn
Department of Bioenergy
Spatial trade-off of wind power development and impatcs on raptor species

Subsurface landuse

Expert Expertise
Dr. habil. Birgit Daus
Department Analytical Chemistry
Analytical and environmental chemistry of metals and metalloids (speciation) in the context of secondary mining activities
Prof. Dr. Olaf Kolditz
Department Environmental Informatics
Modelling and numerical simulation of multiphysics processes in porous media for energy-related subsurface applications; Computational Mechanics, High Performance Computing (HPC), data integration, visualization
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Haibing Shao
Department Environmental Informatics
Modelling of heat and mass transport, and of coupled reactive transport processes; Modelling interactions of Borehole Heat Exchangers in shallow geothermal field; Development of coupled multiphysics models for deep geothermal sites
Prof. Dr. Peter Dietrich Dr. Thomas Vienken
Department Monitoring and Exploration Technologies
Characterization and monitoring of subsurface and near surface systems. Evaluation of effects of shallow geothermal energy use, characterization and monitoring of subsurface storage systems.
Geothermal development concepts, temperature regime in urban areas.
Dr. habil. Hans Richnow
Department Isotope Biogeochemistry
Biogeochemical processes

Production chains

Expert Expertise
Dr. Alberto Bezama
Department of Bioenergy
Sustainability assessments related to complex bio-based industrial clusters and networks. Evaluation of cascade and coupled production concepts for the conversion of biomass onto biomaterials, bio-based chemicals and bioenergy
Dr. Sinéad O’Keeffe
Department of Bioenergy
GHG emission inventories for biomass production