Pictured from left: Professor Michael Obersteiner (University of Oxford), Professor Anna-Katharina Hornidge (German Institute of Development and Sustainability – IDOS and University of Bonn), Professor Elizabeth Holland (University of the South Pacific - USP)), Dr Asha De Vos (Oceanswell and Oceans Institute of the University of Western Australia), Professor Torsten Schlurmann (Leibniz University Hannover) and Professor Roberto Danovaro (Università Politecnica delle Marche). Not pictured: Professor Bernhard Riegl, (Nova Southeastern University).
International Scientific Advisory Board (IWB)
ZMT’s international scientific advisory board plays a critical role in guiding the institute’s research, development, and innovation strategies. It advises ZMT leadership on the direction of scientific research and priorities and helps to align research with long-term organizational goals and emerging trends. Furthermore, it reviews the quality, relevance, and impact of ongoing and proposed scientific work as well as providing independent, objective assessments of research programs and initiatives.
These are the current IWB members:
Chair: Prof. Dr. Anna-Katharina Hornidge, Director of the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) and University of Bonn, Germany
Co-Chair: Prof. Dr. Michael Obersteiner, Director of the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Prof. Dr. Roberto Danovaro, Professor of Ecology, Department Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Università Politecnica delle Marche (UNIVPM), Ancona, Italy
Dr. Asha De Vos, Founder and Executive Director of Oceanswell, Sri Lanka and Adjunct Research Fellow at the Oceans Institute of the University of Western Australia
Prof. Dr. Elizabeth Holland, former Director of the Pacific Center for Environment and Sustainable Development (PaCE-SD) at the University of the South Pacific (USP), Suva, Fiji
Prof. Dr. Anna-Katharina Hornidge, Director of the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), Bonn, Germany
Prof. Dr. Michael Obersteiner, Director of the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Riegl, Professor of Marine and Environmental Science, Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Halmos College of Arts and Sciences, Nova Southeastern University (NSU), Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
Prof. Dr. Torsten Schlurmann, Professor for Hydraulic and Coastal Engineering at Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
Supervisory Board
Chair: Kay Wenzel, Head of Department, University and Research, Senator for Environment, Climate and Science, Bremen, Germany
Deputy Chair: MinR’in Dr. Zage Kaculevski, Head of Department 724, "Marine, Coastal and Polar Research", Federal Ministry for Education and Research, Department Bonn, Germany
Monika Breuch-Moritz, President retirée Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency, Germany (BSH), Past Vice Chair IOC of UNESCO, Past IMO - Goodwill Maritime Ambassador, Hamburg, Germany
Dr. Bettina Hörstrup, Administrative Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Germany
Prof. Dr. Michal Kucera, Vice President for Research and Transfer, University of Bremen, Germany
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Loske, former Senator for the Environment, Construction, Transport and Europe of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, Professor at the University of Witten/Herdecke and Director of the Institute for Ecological Economy Research, Berlin, Germany
Birgit Müller, Managing Director, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM), Hamburg, Germany
Dr. Marc Nolting, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Bonn, Germany