Organizational Structure

The Department of Geography at the University of Bonn comprises, on the administrative level, the General Management and the Executive Board. The current Managing Director is Prof. Dr. Kathrin Hörschelmann².

At the Department of Geography, nine scientific areas with a total of 15 researchgroups groups make up the research and teaching portfolio:

• Climatology and Landscape Ecology³ (Prof. Dr. Löffler)
• Hydrology⁴ (Prof. Dr. Klaus) and Ecohydrology and Water Resources Management⁵ (Prof. Dr. Evers)
• Paleohydrology and Geomorphology⁶ (Prof. Dr. Herget) and Geomorphology and Environmental Systems⁷ (Prof. Dr. Schrott)
• Development Geography (Prof. Dr. Schipper⁸, Prof. Dr. Budds⁹, Prof. Dr. Müller-Mahn¹⁰)
• Urban and Regional Geography¹¹ (Prof. Dr. Matthias Naumann)
• Economic Geography¹² (Prof. Dr. Klagge) and Social Geography¹³ (Prof. Dr. Marquardt)
• Cultural Geography¹⁴ (Prof. Dr. Hörschelmann)
• Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems (Prof. Dr. Malenovsky¹⁵, Prof. Dr. Geiß¹⁶)
• Geography Education¹⁷ (Prof. Dr. Nöthen)

The scientific research of the research groups focuses in its basic orientation on the three research areas water¹⁸, risk¹⁹ and geomatics²⁰. In research, there is close cooperation with the Center for Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces²¹ and the Center for Development Research²² at the University of Bonn.

At the Department of Geography of the University of Bonn, undergraduate students can obtain the degrees Bachelor of Science or Bachelor Geography Teacher Training²³. Building on the Bachelor's programs, the Department offers five advanced Master's programs: In the Master of Science Geography²⁴, students have the opportunity to specialize in one of the four directions offered - Development and Globalization, Governance and Space, Environmental Systems in Transition, or Water in Global Change - or to design an individual study profile. The Bachelor of Education Geography is followed by the Master of Education Geography. In addition to the Master of Science Geography and the Master of Education, the Department of Geography offers three other Master's programs organized in cooperation with partners both internal and external to the university.The Master of Science Nature Conservation and Landscape Ecology²⁵ is offered in cooperation with the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Bonn.The internationally oriented and English-language Master of Science program Geography of Environmental Risks and Human Security²⁶ is offered in cooperation with the United Nations University. The Master of Disaster Management and Risk Governance²⁷ is a continuing education program offered in cooperation with the Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance.

The expertise of the Institute of Geography is complemented by external cooperations²⁸ in the fields of nature conservation (Hon.-Prof. Dr. Erdmann), landscape and waters (Hon.-Prof. Dr. Zumbroich), medical geography and public health (Prof. Dr. Kistemann) and by the cooperation with the United Nations University²⁹.