Armin Grunwald has been appointed member of the German Committee Future Earth [20.02.2013]

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has set up the "German Committee Future Earth". The proposal to establish this new committee has been developed by the National Committee on Global Change Research (NKGCF). The newly established committee serves as a scientific advisory body for national and international activities in the framework of the "Future Earth: research for global sustainability" initiative.

This initiative is supported by international science organizations such as the International Council for Science, the International Social Science Council, and the Belmont Forum (an international network of research funding agencies with the German Research Foundation as one of its members).

The Executive Committee of the German Research Council has proposed to appoint professor Grunwald to be a member of this committee. Armin Grunwald has accepted the calling.

The other members of this committee are

• Professor Martin Visbeck, oceanography, chairman, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
• Professor Dr. Wolfgang Lucht, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam
• Professor Dr. Karen Pittel, Ifo Institute, Munich
• Professor Christiane Schmullius, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Institute of Geography
• Professor Dr. Volkmar Wolters, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, landscape ecology

Further links:

Staff page Armin Grunwald