Team

WTM Engineers is an independent, owner-managed engineering company operating worldwide in all fields of the construction industry, especially buildings, infrastructure, industrials and hydraulic constructions. Alongside the head office in Hamburg, where the company was founded over 80 years ago, WTM has offices in Berlin, Munich and Copenhagen that are likewise working together and shaping the future.

The LUFI institute carries out research activities in a wide range of areas, including coastal protection, marine and offshore technology, risk and vulnerability research in coastal zones, and field measurements in Germany and abroad. Large-scale wave channels and basins, an extensively equipped measuring boat as well as high-performance computing clusters for complex numerical simulations enable individual investigations of scientific and application-oriented problems.

plan + risk consult based in Dortmund consists of an interdisciplinary team. The connection to the faculty of spatial planning at the TU Dortmund guarantees the constant transfer of new scientific findings and methods into the work of plan + risk consult and vice versa. The range of activities in p+r includes consulting and planning services in the areas of spatial climate and risk research, urban and regional development, intercommunal cooperation, european spatial development, international development cooperation, etc.

ThINK provides comprehensive research and advisory services in Germany and abroad on the topics of climate (climate protection, climate change and adaptation, urban climate), energy (renewable energies, energy efficiency, energy balances), sustainability (urban greenery, GHG emission balances), and polar ecology (remote sensing, mapping, traverse planning). The independent institute also pursues sustainable education in the above thematic complexes. As a university spin-off ThINK works with a scientific background, but at the same time very practical regarding our clients needs.

The GFZ is Germany’s national research center for the solid Earth Sciences. GFZ develops a profound understanding of systems and processes of the solid Earth together with strategies and options for action to address global change and its regional impacts, to understand natural hazards and to minimize associated risks, as well as to assess the human impact on System Earth.  The section of Hydrology at GFZ researches toward a better quantification of the water cycle and its changes in space and time, and to better understand the hydrological risk and to derive lessons for the management of such catastrophes.

The GSSC at Cologne aims to investigate and highlight the manifold causes and consequences of the transformative processes in rapid socioeconomic, cultural, and political change in the Global South whose impacts are felt throughout the world. The center seeks to overcome multiple divides by focusing on processes of mobility and exchange that result in translocal connectivities. Researches at the GSSC question perceived geographies and further the understanding of how global transitions, networks, inequalities, and aspirations are made. A key focus of the GSSC consists in close cooperation with partners from countries across the Global South to promote research that is not only interdisciplinary but also involves multiple stakeholders.

Geographical research activities in Tübingen are concentrating on obtainment of a process-based knowlegde and on an understanding of landscape development and its interrelations with natural and anthropogenic factors. The focus lies on all processes that are relevant regarding space (geosphere) and respective mechanisms, which are important against the background of any research on “geo-resources” that again are central objects of geographical research in Tübingen. In consideration of relations and interactions of man and environment the work groups in physical and human geograpgy are closely working together.