Six adults stand on a marble staircase indoors, posing for a group photo. Three men and three women are arranged in two rows, with the front row standing on a lower step. All are casually dressed in smart-casual attire, including blazers, button-up shirts, and relaxed pants. They are smiling and are in a professional or academic setting, with glass railings and a modern interior visible in the background.

Pictured from left: Professor Michael Obersteiner (University of Oxford), Professor Anna-Katharina Hornidge (German Institute of Development and Sustainability – IDOS and University of Bonn), Professor Elizabeth Holland (University of the South Pacific - USP)), Dr Asha De Vos (Oceanswell and Oceans Institute of the University of Western Australia), Professor Torsten Schlurmann (Leibniz University Hannover) and Professor Roberto Danovaro (Università Politecnica delle Marche). Not pictured: Professor Bernhard Riegl, (Nova Southeastern University).

International Scientific Advisory Board (IWB)

ZMT’s international scientific advisory board plays a critical role in guiding the institute’s research, development, and innovation strategies. It advises ZMT leadership on the direction of scientific research and priorities and helps to align research with long-term organizational goals and emerging trends. Furthermore, it reviews the quality, relevance, and impact of ongoing and proposed scientific work as well as providing independent, objective assessments of research programs and initiatives.

These are the current IWB members:

Chair: Prof. Dr. Anna-Katharina Hornidge, Director of the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) and University of Bonn, Germany

Co-Chair: Prof. Dr. Michael Obersteiner, Director of the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Prof. Dr. Roberto Danovaro, Professor of Ecology, Department  Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Università Politecnica delle Marche (UNIVPM), Ancona, Italy

Dr. Asha De Vos, Founder and Executive Director of Oceanswell, Sri Lanka and Adjunct Research Fellow at the Oceans Institute of the University of Western Australia

Prof. Dr. Elizabeth Holland, former Director of the Pacific Center for Environment and Sustainable Development (PaCE-SD) at the University of the South Pacific (USP), Suva, Fiji

Prof. Dr. Anna-Katharina Hornidge, Director of the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), Bonn, Germany

Prof. Dr. Michael Obersteiner, Director of the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Riegl, Professor of Marine and Environmental Science, Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Halmos College of Arts and Sciences, Nova Southeastern University (NSU), Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA

Prof. Dr. Torsten Schlurmann, Professor for Hydraulic and Coastal Engineering at Leibniz University Hannover, Germany

 


Supervisory Board

Chair: Kay Wenzel, Head of Department, University and Research, Senator for Environment, Climate and Science, Bremen, Germany

Deputy Chair: MinR’in Dr. Zage Kaculevski, Head of Department 724, "Marine, Coastal and Polar Research", Federal Ministry for Education and Research, Department Bonn, Germany

Monika Breuch-Moritz, President retirée Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency, Germany (BSH), Past Vice Chair IOC of UNESCO, Past IMO - Goodwill Maritime Ambassador, Hamburg, Germany

Dr. Bettina Hörstrup, Administrative Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Germany

Prof. Dr. Michal Kucera, Vice President for Research and Transfer, University of Bremen, Germany

Prof. Dr. Reinhard Loske, former Senator for the Environment, Construction, Transport and Europe of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, Professor at the University of Witten/Herdecke and Director of the Institute for Ecological Economy Research, Berlin, Germany

Birgit Müller, Managing Director, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM), Hamburg, Germany

Dr. Marc Nolting, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Bonn, Germany