REWILD_DE Team

Project team

REWILD_DE combines:

  • different scientific approaches from the social and natural sciences
  • theoretical, empirical and applied research
  • specific implementation processes with practitioners in the study area.

For this reason, the REWILD_DE research project is being carried out by a team with an inter- and transdisciplinary structure.


Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) Leipzig
Project lead and coordination:
Prof. Dr. Bernd Hansjürgens
Dr. Johannes Schiller
Dr. Christoph Schröter-Schlaack

Dr. Stephanie Jahn

Economic evaluation:

Dr. Julian Massenberg

Artistic interventions:

Dr. Uta Berghöfer

Transformation potentials:
Ulrike Tröger
Augustin Berghöfer


German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Conservation Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU)

Ecological evaluation:
Prof. Dr. Henrique Pereira
Dr. Néstor Fernandez
Dr. Sandeep Sharma
Dr. Andrea Perino

Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development - HNEE

Evaluation of regional-economic potentials:
Prof. Dr. Erik Aschenbrand
Birte Kaddatz

Rewilding Oder Detla e.V.

Stakeholder platform in the Oderdelta:
Ulrich Stöcker
Frank Götz-Schlingmann
Suleika Suntken
Izabela Skawinska-Luther
Wiebke Brenner

Stakeholder advisory board

Representatives of important local institutions accompany the project in a stakeholder advisory board:

Jochen Elberskirch - Head of the Nature Park Am Stettiner Haff
Birgit Flore - Chairwoman of the Vorpommern Tourism Association
Uwe Greff - Managing Director of BioBoden Genossenschaft
Tobias Keye - RCE Stettiner Haff - Regional Centre of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development
Martin Schröter - Mayor of the City of Wolgast
Stefan Schwill - Deputy Chairman NABU Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania