About us
Our research team is a group of academics based in the Geography Department at the University of Zurich (UZH)
our CORE RESEARCH Team
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Dr. Sierra Deutsch
Project Lead 1
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Senior Scientist/Group Leader of Geographies of Socio-Ecologies and Just Transformations (EcoJusT) at the Department of Geography, UZH
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Affiliated Member URPP-GCB
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Webpage: https://www.geo.uzh.ch/en/units/sns/staff/deutschsierra
Dr. Jinat Hossain
Postdoctoral Researcher
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Postdoc at the Department of Geography, UZH
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Webpage: https://www.geo.uzh.ch/en/units/sns/staff/hossainjinat
Prof. Dr. Norman Backhaus
Project Lead 2
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Professor of Space, Nature and Society at the Department of Geography, UZH
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Co-Director URPP-GCB
Webpage: https://www.geo.uzh.ch/en/units/sns/staff/normanbackhaus ​​​
Mirjam Steiger
Research Assistant
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MSc graduate in human geography, UZH​
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Webpage: https://www.geo.uzh.ch/en/units/sns/staff/MiSteiger
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Project partners and affiliated researchers
Prof. Dr. Adrienne Grêt-Regamey
ETHZ Institute for Spatial and Landscape Development/ Co-Head of ValPar.CH
Dr. Roger Keller
UZH Geography Dept./ Project Manager of ValPar.CH and Member URPP-GCB
Minea Mäder
Scientific officer at td-net of Akademien der Wissenschaften Schweiz
Prof. Dr. Emmanuel Reynard
UNIL Institute of Geography and Sustainability / Co-Head of ValPar.CH
Dr. Cornelia Krug
UZH Dept of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies/ Science Liaison Officer URPP-GCB
Prof. Dr. Owen Petchey
UZH Dept. of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies/ Director of URPP-GCB
Theres Paulsen
Head of td-net of Akademien der Wissenschaften Schweiz
Institutional partnerships
Research Institution
University of Zurich
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Department of Geography
Space, Nature and Society
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Project Funding
The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
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