Teaching Staff

Birgit Bednar Friedl
Associate Professor, co-leader of the EconClim research group. Expert in Economics, especially costs of Climate Change. Coordinating lead author of the Working Group 2 contribution to the IPCC's sixth Assessment Report. Teaching Resource and Energy Economics, Environmental Economics, Quantitative Methods and Climate Risk.

Stefan Borsky
Assistant Professor. Expert in Econometrics, Natural Resources and Sustainabitity. Teaching Microeconomics and Environmental Economics.

Ulrich Foelsche
Associate Professor, Co-Leader of the ARSCliSys research group. Expert in Climate Observation and Atmospheres Remote Sensing. Teaching Meteorology, Environmental Physics, Radiation and Energy Balance, Paleoclimatology and Geophysics.

Gottfried Kirchengast
Full Professor, Leader of the ARSCliSys research group. Expert in Atmospheric Physics, Earth Observation and Climate Research. Member of the Austrian Academy of Science (ÖAW) and leader of the workgroup Climate of the ÖAW. Teaching Climate System and Climate Change, Methods of Modeling and other topics in Atmosphere, Climate and Environment.

Douglas Maraun
Associate Professor, Leader of the Regional Climate Research Group. Expert in Statistical Climatology, Regional Climate Change and Weather and Climate Extremes. Lead author of the Working Group 1 contribution to the IPCC's sixth Assessment Report and steering group member of the World Climate Research Programme's Lighthouse Activity "My Climate Risk" and member of EURO-CORDEX. Teaching Climate Dynamics and Climate Change, Regional Climate Change, Climate Risk, Climate Modeling and Time Series Analysis.

Albert Osso
Assistant Professor, Co-Leader of the research group Regional Climate Research Group. Expert for Atmospheric Dynamics. Teaching of Climate and Atmospheric Dynamics, Theory of Probability and Statistics.

Ilona M. Otto
Full Professor, Leader of the SoCo research group. Expert in resource economics, societal impacts of climate change, and complex system science. Teaching Systems-Modelling and Systems-Analysis; Climate and Energy Management.

Andrea Steiner
Full Professor, Head of Wegener Center and Co-leader of the ARSCliSys research group. Expert in Atmospheres Physics and Climate Remote Sensing, especially Radio Occultation. Member of the SPARC Steering Committee of the World Climate Research Programme. Teaching Earth Observation and Atmospheric Remote Sensing, Environmental Monitoring, Methods of Modeling, Environmental Meteorology.

Karl Steininger
Full Professor, Vice Head of Wegener Center and Leader of the Economics of Climate and Environmental Change (EconClim) research group. Expert in Economics, especially costs of Climate Change, Climate Policy and low-carbon Economy. Teaching Human Beings and Environment, Climate and Environmental Economics, Environmental Policy, Sustainability in Globalization and Development, and Quantitative Methods.