Mark Lawrence
GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences
"What does the Anthropocene have to do with SLCPs?"
Prof. Dr. Mark Lawrence is scientific director at RIFS, the Research Institute for Sustainability at the GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences (formerly IASS). He addresses the Anthropocene in an integrative manner, bringing together a wide range of academic expertise in his team and involving societal actors in a transdisciplinary research approach.
His main transformative research topics include air pollution, climate change, climate geoengineering, environment-related governance of vulnerable regions like the Himalayas, the Arctic and the ocean, and the sustainability-oriented interfaces between the sciences and other key knowledge-holder communities such as the arts, religions and indigenous peoples.
He also actively supports whole person development as a component of sustainability, including exploring the common ground between personal transformations and systemic transformations, as well as the mindsets needed to bring these into harmony.
Sönke Zaehle
Max Planck Institute
for Biogeochemistry
"Global net climate effects of anthropogenic reactive nitrogen"
Professor Dr Sönke Zaehle is director at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (MPI-BGC) in Jena Germany. He received his academic training as geo-ecologist at the universities of Braunschweig and Norwich (TU Braunschweig, Germany, University of East Anglia, UK) and holds a PhD from the Universität Potsdam, Germany (2005). After some time as a Marie-Curie Fellow at the Laboratorie des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (LSCE, Gif-sur-Yvette, France) and group leader for terrestrial biosphere modelling at MPI-BGC, he was appointed as a Director in 2020. In his research, he integrates atmospheric and ecosystem observations and global modelling to better understand and predict past and future feedbacks between the biosphere and the climate system. Amongst others, he is member of the steering group of the Amazon Tall Tower Observatory near Manaus, Brazil, and contributes to the German national Earth system modelling strategy. From 2015 to 2022 he has been contributing to the IPCC, most recently as Lead Author of the Sixth Assessment Report.
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