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07/17/2024 12:11

University of Cologne receives funding for junior professorship in Earth system sciences

Gabriele Meseg-Rutzen Kommunikation und Marketing
Universität zu Köln

    The University of Cologne will receive a total funding of 1.5 million euros for a tenure-track junior professorship in the framework of the Volkswagen Foundation’s Earth System Sciences funding line

    The University of Cologne has successfully applied for the Volkswagen Foundation’s ‘Earth System Sciences’ funding programme. From April 2025, the university will receive a total funding of approximately 1.5 million euros for a junior professorship for a period of six years. The designated junior professor is Dr Svenja Riedesel, who works in the field of soil and landscape dynamics. By funding strategically oriented tenure-track junior professorships, the Volkswagen Foundation aims to contribute to the establishment of Earth system science in research and teaching.

    Dr Svenja Riedesel applied to the Volkswagen Foundation together with Professor Dr Tony Reimann from the Institute of Geography. The professorship is established at the Department of Geosciences and will combine research activities in physical geography and geology/mineralogy. It will contribute to the development of a holistic view of the Earth system. The professorship’s research and teaching will focus on the so-called ‘Earth’s Critical Zone’, an environment where the lithosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere and anthroposphere interact. This zone is therefore particularly important for a better understanding of human-environment interactions under changing environmental conditions.

    The funding emphasizes the role of the University of Cologne’s Department of Geosciences at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences as one of the leading geoscientific institutions in Germany. With its 22 working groups and its incorporation into the university’s Key Profile Area ‘Intelligent Methods for Earth System Sciences’, the department covers a broad and future-oriented range of research fields and thus contributes to the further development of Earth system sciences in Cologne.
    Media Contact:

    Press and Communications Team:
    Jan Voelkel
    +49 221 470 2356
    j.voelkel@verw.uni-koeln.de

    Press Spokesperson: Dr Elisabeth Hoffmann – e.hoffmann@verw.uni-koeln.de


    Contact for scientific information:

    Dr Svenja Riedesel
    Department of Physics
    Technical University of Denmark
    sveri@dtu.dk
    Professor Dr Tony Reimann
    Institute of Geography
    University of Cologne
    +49 221 470 1724
    t.reimann@uni-koeln.de


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