Heads of the future
Young sustainability researchers present their ideas and goals.
Climate change is changing pollen. But how can pollen predictions be improved? Dr Maria Plaza and her junior research group IMPACCT are investigating climate-related changes in pollen and spore parts and their distribution.
HeWeCon: Dr Claudia Konnopka and her team are researching how extreme weather events affect public health and health care.
CoSynHealth: Dr Peter Hoffmann and his team are researching how cities can be transformed in a climate-neutral and sustainable way and how people's health is supported in the process.
CoCareSociety: Dr Jo-Ting Huang-Lachmann and her team are developing climate services for care. The aim is to help seniors protect their health and save energy in times of climate change.
CLIMADEMIC: Dr Christopher Irrgang and his team are researching how climate-related risk factors - for example, increasingly frequent hot spells - may affect future pandemics.
Whether on foot, by bike, bus or train: This is the key to a climate-friendly and at the same time healthy mobility transition. Dr. Vivian Frick and her junior research group AMBER are investigating how this can be stimulated.
Can a climate-friendly mobility transition also contribute to the health of the population? Dr Jan Keller and his junior research group AMBER are investigating how this can be achieved by promoting walking, cycling or the use of public transport.
In the SASSCAL project "FoSReCs", Dr Brindha Karthikeyan is researching how water resources in agriculture in southern Africa can be better utilised against the backdrop of global warming, thus securing crop yields.
HI-CLiF: Dr Nivedita Sairam and her team are analysing the impact of flood events on our health. As heavy rainfall and flooding are becoming more likely due to climate change, Sairam's focus is: How do we improve our protection?
IMPAC2T: Dr Mariano Mertens and his team are researching the impact of climate change-induced temperature increases and air pollution on human health and vegetation.
Meteorologist Dr Imoleayo Ezekiel Gbode is researching the development of a West African Earth System Model to provide high-resolution, regional climate change information.
