Research on sustainability at LMU
Get an overview of the research projects and areas at LMU that are currently addressing sustainability issues.
Please find below a selection of current research projects and focus areas related to sustainability. We welcome any additions or corrections at sustainability@lmu.de.
(as of April 2025)
Research projects related to sustainability
- A targeted global online intervention for pandemic-related mental health problems (COPE) (Prof. Dr. Kristina Adorjan)
- Multinational study on the protection against childhood asthma by rural environmental exposure - a central role of dendritic and regulatory B cells during immune maturation (Prof. Dr. Bianca Schaub)
- Long-term exposure to ozone and green space and its association with respiratory health in adults (Prof. Dr. Joachim Heinrich, Dr. Stefan Karrasch, Prof. Dr. Dennis Nowak)
- The role of interpretation biases and physiological stress reactivity in the familial transmission of depression (Dr. Belinda Platt)
- The role of chronic diseases, environmental and genetic influences on the infection with SARS-CoV-2: boosters, effect modifiers or mediators? (Prof. Dr. Annette Peters)
- Influence of air quality on the expected burden on the health care system in the event of pandemics (Dr. Susanne Breitner-Busch)
- PanACEA 2, a drug development program to simplify and shorten tuberculosis therapy (Prof. Dr. Michael Hölscher)
- GBA new forms of care - OptiNIV - Optimization of post-hospital intensive care for neurological patients (Prof. Dr. Andreas Bender)
- CoSiMed - Promotion of collaborative diagnostic skills in medical collaboration: Effects of adapting scaffolding to the professional knowledge base of the collaboration partners (Prof. Dr. Frank Fischer)
- META-REP - A Meta-scientific Program to Analyse and Optimise Replicability in the Behavioral, Social, and Cognitive Sciences (Prof. Dr. Mario Gollwitzer)
- AgMIP Bavaria (Prof. Marianela Fader, Dr. Tobias Hank)
- Severe Weather Forecasting Programme (SWFP) (Prof. Dr. Marianela Fader)
- SESYNC (Prof. Dr. Marianela Fader)
- CDRSynTra (Prof. Dr. Julia Pongratz)
- Deponieverhalten mineralischer Abfälle auf Deponien der Klassen I und II nach 2005 (Prof. Dr. Soraya Heuss-Aßbichler)
- Verbesserung der Sickerwasserqualität durch langfristige Schadstofffixierung auf Deponien der Klasse III mittels gezielter Befeuchtung (Prof. Dr. Soraya Heuss-Aßbichler)
- LabForest - Living lab university forest for sustainable management of natural regeneration under climate change (Prof. Dr. Lukas Lehnert)
- RESCUE - Response of the Earth System to overshoot, Climate neUtrality and negative Emissions (Prof. Dr. Julia Pongratz)
- SOS-iClimate: Southern Ocean Salinity-Isotopic Fingerprints and Impacts on Global Climate (Prof. Dr. Alexander Haumann)
- FutureMed: A Transdisciplinary Network to Bridge Climate Science and Impacts on Society (Prof. Dr. Marianela Fader)
- MedECC Nexus Special Report (Prof. Dr. Marianela Fader, Dr. Andrea Reimuth)
- Nexusnet COST Action (Prof. Dr. Marianela Fader)
- International Joint Initiative for Research in Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation: Climate Mental Health Research Initiative: Urgently Accelerating Climate Mental Health Research & Equity through Global Networks (Prof. Dr. Matthias Garschagen)
- International Joint Initiative for Research in Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation: Justice First: Community-embedded Energy Transition Planning for Climate Resilience (Prof. Dr. Henrike Rau)
Research areas and chairs related to sustainability
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