The Team
The work of the Bonn Alliance towards a sustainable future for society as a whole thrives on a wide range of research, education and transfer activities. The Bonn Alliance Head Office supports this work and guides it along the common vision.
Scientific Direction of the Bonn Alliance for Sustainability Research
The Scientific Director is mainly responsible for the scientific strategy of the Bonn Alliance and its joint research activities; this includes initiating cooperation and scientific projects.

Scientific Director /
Professor of Global Change and Systemic Risks at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn
Room: 4.002 / Meckenheimerallee 172, 53115 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 events to public relations and directs them along the Bonn Alliance agenda.

Managing Director
Designated Contact Point for the UNFCCC

Waltraud Eßer
Secretary to the Scientific Director
Financial Administrator
Room: 2.014 / Genscherallee 3, 53113 Bonn


Chair of "Global Change and Systemic Risks" at the University of Bonn

Research Associate and Assistant to the Professor
Field of Research: Sustainable Consumption
Room: 4.003 / Meckenheimer Allee 172, 53115 Bonn

Michelle Geiter
Graduate Student Assistant
Room: 4.003 / Meckenheimer Allee 172, 53115 Bonn
Coordination Office "Service Learning" at the University of Bonn

Jingjing He
Coordinator for Service Learning
Room: 4.004 / Meckenheimer Allee 172, 53115 Bonn

Jessica Pilger
Student Assistant
Room: 4.004 / Meckenheimer Allee 172, 53115 Bonn
"digitainable: Digitalization and Sustainability"

Research Associate
Field of Research: GIS, Health, ICT, Sustainability
Room: 1.002 / Genscherallee 3, 53113 Bonn

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
Schwerpunkt: Wasser-Energie-Nexus
Raum: 1.002 / Genscherallee 3, 53113 Bonn

Mnena Inyaregh
Project Assistant
Digitainable Spring School 2022
Room: 1.002 / Genscherallee 3, 53113 Bonn
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 working areas of the Bonn Alliance: research, education, and transfer.

Contact person: Lars Wirkus
Head of Data & Geomatics
Email: lars.wirkus@bicc.de
Phone:+49 (0)228 911 96-63

Contact person: Dr. Marion Stagars
Scientific Advisor to the Board of Directors
Email: Marion.Stagars@die-gdi.de
Phone: +49 (0)228 94927-198

Contact person: Dr. Zita Sebesvari
Academic Officer & Head of Section – Environmental Vulnerability and Ecosystem Services (EVES)
Email: sebesvari@ehs.unu.edu
Phone: +49 (0)228 815-0207

Contact person: Dr. Kathleen Jacobs
Research Associate and Assistant to the Professor
at the Agricultural Faculty
Email: kathleen.jacobs@uni-bonn.de
Phone: +49 (0)228 73 68765

Contact person: Dr. Timo Falkenberg
Senior Researcher
at the Medical Faculty
Email: falkenberg@uni-bonn.de
Phone:+49 (0)228 73 4634
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.

Contact person: Susanne Heinke
Phone: +49 (0)228-911 96-44 / +49-(0)228-911 96-0

Contact person: Tanja Vogel
Head of Communications
Email: tanja.vogel@die-gdi.de
Phone: +49 (0)228 94927-264

Contact person: Daniela Greulich
Press and Public Relations, Spokeswoman
Email: daniela.greulich@h-brs.de

Contact person: Austin Gonzales
Programme Assistant
Email: gonzales@vie.unu.edu
Phone: +49 (0)228 815-0276

Contact: University Communications Department
Email: kommunikation@uni-bonn.de
Telefon: +49 (0)228 73-7647

Contact person: Alma van der Veen
Public Relations Officer
Email: presse.zef@uni-bonn.de
Telefon: +49 (0)228 73-6124 or -1846