Partnering Investigators
- Music of the 20th and 21st century with focus on computer music, mixed music and music technology
- Musical performance practices and their development
- Archiving of musical works in the change of digital storage media
- Sound as an information carrier and influencing factor (sound research in an interdisciplinary context)
- Music and sleep
- Post-mining transition
- Environmental geochemistry
- Degradation and pollution of soil resources
- Land use changes
- Natural resources management
- Digitalization in the environmental economy, esp:
- Generation of digital CO2 emission certificates for timber system buildings
- Resource-efficient optimization of the CO2 storage capacity of buildings
- Data-driven marketing, incl. customer data analysis and marketing automation
- Economics and policy Blue Economy & Circular Economy
- Geospatial data management and governance
- Geospatial data for the resource nexus
- Making ever increasing volumes of geospatial information available, accessible and usable
- Landscape planning, biodiversity conservation and management
- Impact assessment and impact mitigation in national and international contexts: biodiversity offsets, impact mitigation regulation and environmental assessments
- Policy and societal advice (science-policy interfaces) with a focus on biodiversity policy and sustainability (Network Forum on Biodiversity Research Germany NeFo, Convention on biological diversity CBD, International Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services IPBES, UN SDGs, EU Biodiversity Strategy, etc.)

Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung
NameProf. Dr. Andreas Fery
Professur für Physikalische Chemie polymerer Materialien
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- Particle-based materials with optical, electronic and sensor functionality
- Interactions of colloids and interfaces
- Surface characterization and modification
- Transition of packaging solutions towards closed material loops and resource efficiency
- Development of new packaging materials
- Optimization of reliability and material efficiency of machines in the fast moving consumer goods industry
- Re-engineering of material flow and value chain design
Strategies for sustainability assessment of companies Sustainability assessment of business models Sustainability assessment of innovations Responsible Management education: strategies and assessment Assessment of Social entrepreneurship competences
- Aquatic Resources Management
- Central Asia
- Environmental Change and Sustainable Development
- Science, Technology and Sustainable Society

Technische Universität Dresden
NameMr Prof. Dr. Artem Korzhenevych
Environmental, Urban and Regional Economics
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- Intruments for land use reduction
- Green growth (directed technological change)
- Urbanization in developing countries

Technische Universität Dresden
NameMs Prof. Dr.-Ing. Irene Lohaus
Chair of Landscape Engineering
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Barrier-free construction, Focus on exterior spaces
External spaces in demographic change
Sustainable rainwater management
- Complex human-nature systems dynamics modeling and analysis
- Decision making under uncertainty and environmental financial risk assessment
- Water resources management
- Climate change adaptation and environmental justice
- Water-food-energy nexus

Technische Universität Dresden
NameProf. Dr. Matthias Mauder
Professur für Meteorologie
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- Biosphere-atmosphere interactions
- Urban climate
- Climate adaptation

Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography
NameProf.Dr. Judith Miggelbrink
Director of the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography
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- Social and Political Geography
- Border research
- Globalization research
- Research on regional development and peripheralization
- Human-centred design and optimisation of technological and, in particular, sustainable innovations
- Experience, decision-making and behaviour in the digital space
- Auditory cognition, noise effects and psychoacoustics
Measuring and managing resource efficiency
Application and advancement of material flow cost accounting
Environmental management control systems

Technische Universität Dresden
NameMs Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Christiane Thomas
BITZER-Chair of Refrigeration, Cryogenics and Compressor Technolo
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- Stationary and mobile refrigeration, air conditioning and heat pump systems and components
- Waste heat utilization
- Material data analyses of refrigerants/refrigerant mixtures and refrigerant-lubricant mixtures
- Basic investigations in the field of cryogenics
- LH2 technologies
- LHe technologies and operation of the helium liquefaction plant of the Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering, TU Dresden
- Basic research and optimization of process gas and refrigerant compressors
- Tribology
- Component optimization of compressors
- Life Cyle Thinking and Sustainability Assessment
- Development and integration of product evaluation methods
- Definition of reliable indicators and impact categories and implementation of regionalized indicator sets
- Development of advanced integrative approaches
- Definition of other sustainability dimensions
- Consideration of aspects of recycling and closing cycles of raw materials

Technische Universität Dresden
NameMs JProf. Susann Wagenknecht
Jun.Prof. in Micro-Sociology and Techno-Social Interaction
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- Micro-sociology, sociology of technology, science and technology studies.
- Sociology of practices, sociology of evaluation
Sustainable City Planning and Environmental Assessment / Professorship Urban Development
Evaluation and methodical development of spatial planning and control instruments
Landscape policies and preserving biodiversity