Professor Katharina Waha is an agricultural geographer who started her academic career as a PhD student at PIK's 'Landuse and resilience' working group and finished her doctoral thesis on 'Application of a global vegetation model (LPJmL) for assessing climate change impacts on agriculture in sub-saharan Africa' at the University of Potsdam in 2013. She continued her career path internationally at CSIRO in Australia, but remained connected with PIK as a guest scientist within the 'Landuse Resilience' working group.
She's returned to Germany in spring 2023 for a university professorship in 'Climate Resilience of Human-made Ecosystems' at the Centre for Climate Resilience (CCR) where she'll continue her focus on multidisciplinary research to understand interactions between the atmosphere, biosphere and human societies, in particular of relevance for agricultural systems. She says: "I am very excited to join the Centre for Climate Resilience as it is a very rare opportunity to help create a new strong research body on a topic that I am so passionate about. I am honored to work in a team of researchers that not only make an impact in their individual disciplines but looking to contribute to interdisciplinary solutions for a more resilient future."
Contact-details:
Prof. Dr. Katharina Waha
University of Augsburg
Institute of Geography Climate Resilience & Land Use
Phone: +49 821 598 - 4869
Web: www.katharinawaha.com
Email: katharina.waha@uni-a.de
Twitter: @katharina_waha
