from left: Alexandra Lux, Christine Hertler, Cedric Janowicz, Diana Hummel and Steffen Niemann standing as well as Silke Karl and Monika Buchsbaum seated

Diana Hummel

(political sciences)
Diana Hummel manages the junior research group. In her disciplinary case study, she focusses on the impact of growth processes among populations on transformations of water and food supply. Diana Hummel is working with the Institute for social-ecological research in the research area ecology of the everyday world, consumption and material flows focussing on demography, globalisation and development as well as gender studies.

Monika Buchsbaum

Monika Buchsbaum studied political sciences. She is working on her PhD thesis with the title "Waterproblemes in Ohrid-Region - perspectives of equitably and sustainable use of international resources" at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University. She is working with as graduate assistant.

Christine Hertler

(biosciences)
Christine Hertler focusses in her project on ecology and evolution of Pleistocene hominids from Jawa, in particular concerning their food supply. She is working with the department of Vertebrate Paleobiology at the Zoological Institute of the Frankfurt university. She reconstructs fossil ecological networks with particular focus on the relations of Javanese hominids to their environment.

Cedric Janowicz

(social sciences)
Cedric Janowicz focusses on the connections between urbanisation in developping countries and different systems of food supply. He is working with the Institute of social-ecological research in the research area ecology of the everyday world, consumption and material flows with particular focus on food supply.

Silke Karl

Silke Karl studied zoology, ecology and human biology. She is working with as graduate assistant.

Alexandra Lux

(economy)
Alexandra Lux focusses in her studies on the connections between decreasing population numbers and their water supply and water management, respectively.
She is working with the Institute of social-ecological research in the research area water and sustainable management of the environment with particular focus on water economy.

Steffen Niemann

(geography)
Steffen Niemann focusses in his studies on water transfer, especially in the framework of migrations and water supply focussing particularly on water catchment areas. He is working with the Institute of Physical Geography at the faculty of Geosciences, University of Frankfurt. Focussing spatially on Africa for a while, his wider scope of research encompasses methods of a sustainable resource management in general, especially in the context of international collaboration.