Pushing Interdisciplinarity

What do the fashion industry and our consumer behavior have to do with the climate crisis? How can we say goodbye to fossil fuels? And how are lawyers and climate researchers joining forces in the fight for decarbonization? In an interdisciplinary course at the SICSS graduate  school, Master’s students tackled these and...

More than 130 guests celebrated the opening of Breaking the Surface. The exhibition portrays eleven female scientists, their questions for the ocean – and their experiences with glass ceilings.

How do you feel when you see the status quo in the Harz? Shock or sadness at the countless withered spruces? Hope, when you see a single green tree? Or nostalgia, because you’ve been atop the Brocken before? Individual perspectives on the dying trees can influence e.g. whether and how people support the forest or climate...

The University of Hamburg was extremely successful in the framework of the Excellence Strategy, securing funding for the 4 existing clusters of excellence in the next funding round from January 2026. The University has thus consolidated its top position among the leading group of German research universities. With this...

In March 2025, Beate Ratter sent us pictures and impressions of her research trip to the Seychelles, which we present here. The professor of integrative geography is an expert for climate change and adaptation measures on small islands.

Ratter holds the UNESCO Chair in “Societal Climate Research and Resilience”. She works...

Dr. Goran Georgievski is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology within the “Climate-Biosphere Interactions” working group lead by Prof. Dr. Victor Brovkin. Trained as a physical engineer specializing in meteorology and physical oceanography, Georgievski has acquired significant expertise in data analysis...