Wegener Center Advisory Boards

Scientific Advisory Board

  • Hermann Held
    University of Hamburg – KlimaCampus Hamburg
    Center für Erdsystemforschung und Nachhaltigkeit (CEN)
    Chair Sustainability & Global Change
  • Daniela Jacob
    Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), Hamburg
    Director
  • Karen Pittel
    ifo Institut – Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Universität München
    Leiterin ifo Zentrums für Energie, Klima und erschöpfbare Ressourcen
    Professorin für Volkswirtschaftslehre
  • Manfred Stock
    Potsdam Intitut für Klimafolgenforschung (PIK), Chefberater für Regionale Strategien
    Vorsitzender des Beirats für Nachhaltige Entwicklung und Ressourcenschutz/Land Brandenburg

The Scientific Advisory Board is composed of four to six personalities who are internationally renowned for their research and scientific leadership expertise in the area of climate and global change. It advises and supports the Wegener Center management especially in the following areas:

  • Development of the research goals and organization of the Wegener Center as well as of its scientific-thematic positioning in the international context
  • Maintenance and systematic expansion of international research networking and of cooperations with other relevant research centers
  • Promoted exchange of researchers and international integration at all levels (PhD Students, Postdocs, Senior Professionals)
  • Further extension of leading and contributing participations in international research projects and programmes

The appointment and organisational guidance of the Scientific Advisory Board is done by the Wegener Center Director.

Stakeholders Advisory Board

  • Peter Grabensberger
    Stadt Graz – Kultur und Wissenschaft
    Abteilungsleiter Kulturamt der Stadt Graz
  • Thomas Hlatky
    GRAWE – Grazer Wechselseitige Versicherung
    Prokurist und Leiter der Sachversicherung
  • Birgit Strimitzer-Riedler
    Land Steiermark – Wissenschaft und Forschung
    Abteilungsleiterin der Abteilung A8-Wissenschaft und Gesundheit
  • Norbert Swoboda
    Kleine Zeitung – Wissenschaftsredaktion
    Leitender Wissenschaftsredakteur

The Stakeholders Advisory Board is composed of four to six personalities from the area of Graz/Styria, who are renowned for leadership in business and society and who hold an explicit interest in the topic climate and global change. It advises and supports the Wegener Center management especially in the following areas:

  • Strategic institutional positioning of the Wegener Center at the location Graz/Styria and in Austria as a whole
  • Establishment and maintainance of research cooperations, know-how transfer and public relations at the location Graz/Styria and in Austria as a whole
  • Effective communications to decision-makers in policy, economy, media and society for fostering a strong and solid institutional standing at the location
  • Systematic bulid-up of a sustainable economic and corporate prosperity of the Wegener Center

The appointment and organisational guidance of the Stakeholders Advisory Board is done by the Wegener Center Director.