Christine Fürst

Christine Fürst is by training forest scientist (LMU Munich, 1998) and obtained her PhD as Dr. rer. silv. at TU Dresden in 2010. Since 2005, she started specializing in social-ecological systems research and develops since 2007 in an interdisciplinary process an integrated land use change Simulation Modelling (ABM/Predictive/Economic modelling) and impact assessment software platform, GISCAME. In 2013, she passed her habilitation at University of Bonn with venia legendi in Natural Resource Management. 2015, she moved to the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research and moved then since 2016 first as interrim and later as full professor for Sustainable Landscape Development to Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. She is currently the vice-rector for Research, Internationalization and Transfer of her university. Christine funded the European Land-Use Institute in 2011 and established the European Nodal Office of GLP in 2012. She is currently review editor of the IPBES Fast Track Assessment Spatial Planning and Connectivity and takes over leading roles in guiding science such as curator of the Berlin Network of Research.