The Team

Scientific Director of the Bonn Alliance for Sustainability Research

The Scientific Director is mainly responsible for the scientific strategy of the ICB and joint research activities in the Bonn Alliance for Sustainability Research; this includes initiating cooperation and scientific projects.

Prof. Dr. Jakob Rhyner

Scientific Director /
Professor of Global Change and Systemic Risks at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn

Room: 4.002 / Meckenheimerallee 172, 53115 Bonn

Waltraud Eßer

Secretary

Room: 2.014 / Genscherallee 3, 53113 Bonn

Head Office of the Bonn Alliance for Sustainability Research

The lynchpin of the joint work in the Bonn Alliance for Sustainability Research is the Head Office, which bundles the joint efforts from strategy and research, education, and transfer formats over alliance events to public relations and directs them along the Bonn Alliance agenda.

Sandra Gilgan

Managing Director
Designated Contact Point for the UNFCCC

Una Kliemann

Project Manager
Public Relations

Evelien Fiselier

Project Assistant

Office Days: Mon, Wed, Thurs

Focal Points of the Bonn Alliance for Sustainability Research

At the working level, joint projects and scientific activities are flanked and advanced by the so-called Focal Points of the partner institutions. In their interface function between partner institution and Head Office, they act as important information and contact points and drive forward joint projects that strengthen the three pillars of the ICB: research, education, and transfer.

BICC (Bonn International Center for Conversion) deals with global topics of peace and conflict research. As an extra-university think tank with an international staff, the center conducts application-oriented and transdisciplinary research; On this basis, it provides policy advice as well as contributions to public debates. It was founded in 1994 and is a member of the Johannes Rau Research Community. The research director of the BICC holds a professorship for peace and conflict research at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Bonn.

Contact person: Lars Wirkus

The German Development Institute is one of the leading think tanks for global develeopment and international cooperation worldwide. It is located in the UN City of Bonn. DIE’s work is based on the interplay between Research, Policy Advice and Training. DIE is building bridges between theory and practice.

Contact person: Eva-Maria Lynders

The Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, University of Applied Sciences (H-BRS) was founded in 1995. It is a dynamic and research-driven university. The International Centre for Sustainability Development (IZNE) works in close conncetion with all parts of H-BRS. In the field of teaching, research, and consulting together with its internal and external partners it takes a practical and business-orientated approach.

Contact person: Dr. Darya Hirsch

The United Nationas Univeristy (UNU) is the academic arm of the United Nations and acts as a global think tank. The mission of the Institute for Evironment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) is to carry out cutting edge research on risks and adaptation related to environmental hazards and global change. The institute’s research promotes policies and programmes to reduce these risks, while taking into account the interplay between environmental and societal factors.

Contact person: Dr. Zita Sebesvari

The University of Bonn was founded in 1818 and is one of Germany’s most important institutes of higher education. As a place of learning to over 34,000 students, it enjoys an outstanding reputation both at home and abroad. It is one of the world’s leading research-based universities and, thus, it is no surprise that it operates on an international level.

Contact person: Kathleen Jacobs

The Center for Development Research (ZEF) is an institute of the University of Bonn. It started its research activities in 1997. ZEF’s reseachers aim to find science-based solutions to development-related issues. ZEF’s research departments on Economic and Technological Change, Polictical and Cultural Change, and Ecology and Natural Resources Management conduct inter- and trans-diciplinary research in, for and with emerging economies and on globall issues with its collaborating research partners around the world.

Contact person: Dr. Timo Falkenberg

Public Relations for the Bonn Alliance for Sustainability Research

Together with the press spokespersons and heads of communication of our partner institutions, the head office is working on joint press and public relations work for the Bonn Alliance for Sustainability Research/ Innovation Campus Bonn (ICB).