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Tuesday, 21 July 2020

Prof. Dr. Ilona M. Otto

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Neue Professorin am Wegener Center und im Profilbereich Climate Change Graz

Prof. Dr. Ilona M. Otto ist die neu ernannte Professorin für Gesellschaftliche Folgen des Klimawandels am Wegener Center für Klima und Globalen Wandel der Universität Graz. Dort leitet sie eine neue Forschungsgruppe mit dem Schwerpunkt soziale Komplexität und Systemtransformation (Social Complexity and System Transformation). Das Ziel der Gruppe ist es, mit Hilfe komplexer Wissenschaftstheorie und neuartiger Forschungsmethoden soziale dynamische Prozesse und Interventionen zu analysieren, die rasche soziale Veränderungen auslösen können, die notwendig sind, um die Interaktionen menschlicher Gesellschaften mit der Natur in den nächsten 30 Jahren radikal zu verändern.

Prof. Otto ist ausgebildete Sozialwissenschaftlerin. Sie absolvierte ein Doktorandenprogramm in Ressourcenökonomie an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Deutschland, und einen Masterstudiengang in Soziologie an der Adam-Mickiewicz-Universität in Posen, Polen. Sie studierte auch an der Erasmus-Universität Rotterdam in den Niederlanden, der Universität Wageningen in den Niederlanden und der National University of Ireland in Galway. Sie arbeitete als wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung in Potsdam (Deutschland) und am Institut für Vorhersage der Slowakischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Bratislava (Slowakei).

Prof. Otto verwendet verschiedene Forschungsmethoden, darunter soziale Umfragen, Fallstudien, Verhaltensexperimente und Simulationen, um Probleme im Zusammenhang mit globalen Umweltveränderungen, Entwicklung, Anpassung und Nachhaltigkeit zu analysieren. Prof. Otto ist Projektpartnerin im EU-Horizont-2020-Projekt CASCADES: Cascading climate risks: Towards adaptive and resilient European Societies. Sie war Projektpartner im WaterLab-Projekt: River Basin Management Games Supporting Adaptation to Climate Change and Public Participation, das von der Chinese Science Foundation finanziert wurde, und leitete das von der Weltbank in Auftrag gegebene Projekt zur Modellierung der Auswirkungen des Klimawandels auf die Armut auf subnationaler Ebene. In ihrer frühen Postdoc-Forschungsarbeit hatte sie ein Marie-Curie-Stipendium und untersuchte die Verwaltung von Wasser und Biodiversität in der erweiterten EU. In ihrer Doktorarbeit analysierte sie Faktoren für die Verbesserung der Zusammenarbeit in Agrarmärkten. Sie ist eine engagierte Hochschullehrerin und Vortragende zu Auswirkungen des Klimawandels und zur nachhaltigen Transformation.

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Take a renewable raw material from nature – wood, for example – break it down into its building blocks and use them to create a functional material, such as a water-repellent surface coating, with the help of green chemistry. Once this has served its purpose, break it down again into its chemical components and use them to build something new. This idea is set to revolutionise the production and life cycle of materials and goods. The Cluster of Excellence "Circular Bioengineering", funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, is researching how to produce products from biomass, develop sustainable methods for the production process, and open options for returning products that have reached the end of their lifetime back into a cycle. The University of Graz is a partner in this Cluster of Excellence, for which the FWF is providing 18 million euros. Including its own funds, the total volume of the project is 27 million euros. The lead is with the BOKU University in Vienna.

Climate change update: ClimateTracer of the University of Graz provides reliable data

Yesterday, the Copernicus Climate Change Service of the European Union published its data on global warming up to end of November 2024. These confirm that this year will see the 1.5 °C threshold clearly exceeded for the first time. The Wegener Center at the University of Graz already computed an accurate full-year prediction: the global near-surface air temperature in 2024 will rise by 1.62 °C – plus/minus 0.05 °C standard deviation – compared to the pre-industrial level. Such latest predictions for 2024 and other essential data on climate change are provided by the scientists via the Graz Climate Change Indicators (GCCI) portal.

Novel Methods of Semiconductor Manufacturing: University of Graz is partner in EU project

How can technological innovations be aligned with principles of sustainability and circularity? This is a challenge being tackled by researchers at the Department of Environmental Systems Sciences at the University of Graz. As a partner in a new EU project, the team, led by Rupert Baumgartner, is contributing its expertise in sustainability assessment for the semiconductor manufacturing process. The focus of the research project “HaloFreeEtch” is on developing innovative, environmentally friendly etching methods for semiconductors.

A result that we can continue to work with: Climate law expert Oliver Ruppel on the COP29

The UN Climate Change Conference, COP29, came to an end last Sunday in Baku, Azerbaijan. Disappointing for many: too little money to support developing countries in the fight against climate change and no movement on phasing out fossil fuels. However, Oliver Ruppel, Head of "Clim:Law: Graz – Research Centre for Climate Law", can certainly take something from the outcome. He explains why in this interview.

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