Team

Elisabeth Wiegele is a Junior Researcher at the UNESCO Chair and Carinthia University of Applied Sciences. She is a geographer and trained nature conservation engineer. Her research and work focuses on nature conservation in civil engineering, management of invasive species and management of protected areas. She is responsible for the coordination of the nature conservation engineer course. Elisabeth has a Master’s in Management of Conservation Areas with the aim to promote biodiversity conservation and regional development.

Andrea Stitzel has worked for Carinthia University of Applied Sciences (CUAS) since 2007 after employment as Technical Officer at the World Health Organization in Geneva. At CUAS she has worked in research and teaching with a focus on health promotion, global health, as well as ageing, applying for and running several EU Projects with an ageing-related focus. Since 2020, her main focus as a senior researcher has shifted to including planetary health into her teaching as well as research project applications. To deepen her knowledge on planetary health, she is has participated in the Certificate Programme “Climate Change and Health” at Yale University, the Advanced Module “Climate Change and Health: Initiating and Leading Transformational Change” at Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, among other courses.

Timon McPhearson is Professor of Urban Ecology, Director of the Urban System Lab, and research faculty at the Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University and the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics at The Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences. He is a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a Contributing Author to the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), and a member of the World Economic Forum Global Commission on BiodiverCities.

Thea Wubbelmann is the Deputy Representative for Research Staff at the Institute of Physical Geography and Landscape Ecology in the University of Hannover. Thea has many research and teaching interests including human-environment interactions in urban areas under the influence of climate change and urbanisation and development of climate change – biodiversity – health interactions in the urban context. She is a member of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (IALE-D) and won the IALE-D award for the best landscape ecology dissertation 2023. Thea has a strong educational background with a PhD in Geography.

Prof. Nadja Kabisch is the Professor for Digital Landscape Ecology  in the Institute of Physical Geography and Landscape Ecology at the University of Hannover. Nadja has a wide focus in research and teaching including research in landscape ecology, population geography and health geography among many more. She is a member of the International Association of People and Environment Studies (IAPS) and an Associate Editor for the Journal Urban Forestry and Urban Greening and Urban Transformations. Nadja has a strong educational background with a PhD in Geography from the Martin-Luther University from University Halle-Wittenberg.