BlueGreen L.E.
BlueGreen LE develops and tests concrete solutions for blue-green urban districts in Leipzig. Sensors and monitoring systems capture stormwater dynamics, plant vitality, and microclimatic conditions; based on these data, digital twins are developed to assess water retention and cooling effects and to enable optimizations (e.g. decentralized rainwater harvesting for irrigation). A key focus is the integration of climate adaptation measures with the heat transition and the requirements of densely utilized urban street spaces.
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Lucie Moeller
Dr.-Ing. habil. Lucie Moeller leads the BlueGreen LE subproject. She is a Research Scientist in the Department of Systemic Environmental Biotechnology at UFZ and has headed the Environmental and Bioprocess Engineering research group since 2023. In addition, she coordinates UFZ’s green roof research activities and the Leipzig Green Roof Academy. She is the spokesperson of the CityTech platform project. Her scientific work combines environmental and bioprocess engineering, with expertise in biotechnological processes, bio-based products, and blue-green infrastructure in urban environments.
Harald Kunstmann
Prof. Dr. Harald Kunstmann is Deputy Director of the KIT Campus Alpine in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Chair of Regional Climate and Hydrology at the University of Augsburg. Since 2021, he has also served as the founding director of the Center for Climate Resilience at the University of Augsburg. His research focuses on the development and operation of complex regional Earth system models, advanced observation infrastructures, and AI-supported methods for analyzing the interactions between climate, land use, water resources, and greenhouse gas fluxes.
Niels Wollschläger
Niels Wollschläger holds an M.Sc. in Meteorology and is a Research Associate at UFZ, initially in the Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology and later also in the Department of Systemic Environmental Biotechnology. Since 2020, his research has focused on climate adaptation through green infrastructure, particularly the cooling effects of building greening, urban climatology, and micrometeorological processes.
Tobias Hübner
Dipl.-Ing. Tobias Hübner is a Research Associate in the Department of Systemic Environmental Biotechnology at UFZ. His research focuses on the development and optimization of environmental biotechnological recycling processes. He has contributed to numerous publications on composting, fecal sludge recycling, and the production of safe fertilizers from decentralized sources.
Lucas Kersting
Lucas Kersting is a Technical Staff Member in the UFZ Department of Systemic Environmental Biotechnology. His work focuses on the selection and installation of monitoring equipment and its integration into Helmholtz’s internal data management system.
Benjamin Fersch
Dr. rer. nat. Dipl.-Hydrol. Benjamin Fersch is a Research Scientist at KIT Campus Alpine in the field of Regional Climate and Hydrology. His work includes soil moisture and snow water equivalent measurements using Cosmic-Ray Neutron Sensing, as well as the development of coupled hydrological–atmospheric models. In current projects, he is involved in climate adaptation scenarios and land–atmosphere feedback processes, among other topics.
Juan Camilo Rivera-Palacio
Dr. Juan Camilo Rivera-Palacio (M.Sc. in Data Science and B.Sc. in Mathematics) is a Data Scientist at KIT Campus Alpine. His work focuses on explainable artificial intelligence, machine learning, and neural networks. He has previously worked on AI-supported applications in agriculture, including the automated counting of coffee cherries for yield estimation.