Geographie Prof. Dr. Marcus Nüsser
Supervised PhD Dissertations
Dr. Stanzin Passang 2023
Snow cover distribution in relation to topography in the Trans-Himalaya of Ladakh, India
Dr. Maike Petersen 2021
Producing charcoal in a sub-Saharan dryland. The case of Pokot Central, Kenya
Forschungsprojekt: Producing Charcoal in the Sub-Saharan Drylands: The Contested Fuelscape of Central Pokot, Kenya (NU 102/14-1)
Dr. Judith Müller 2021
Urban Mountain Waterscapes in Leh, Indian Trans-Himalaya – The Transformation of Hydro-Social Relations
Forschungsprojekt finanziert durch Nachwuchsgruppe Dr. Juliane Dame (HCE)
Dr. Sitara Parveen 2019
Socio-hydrological nexus of mountain agriculture in Gilgit-Baltistan, Northern Pakistan
Forschungsprojekt finanziert durch Schlumberger Foundation
Dr. Johannes Anhorn 2019
Disaster Resilience in Nepal: From problem statement to prospective institutional transformation
Dr. Carina Zang 2018
Socio-hydrological Perspectives on Water Quality in an Arid Mountain Catchment: The Case of the Upper Huasco Valley, Chile
Forschungsprojekt finanziert durch Nachwuchsgruppe Dr. Juliane Dame (HCE)
Dr. Julia Poerting 2018
Practicing Organic Farming in Pakistan: Debating Science, Sustainability and Localism in an Alternative Agriculture
Dr. Aditya Ghosh 2016
Cursed waters: Climate calamities and subaltern sustainability in Indian Sundarbans
Forschungsprojekt finanziert durch DAAD
Dr. Thomas Lennartz 2015
Naturgefahren und alltägliche Risiken der Lebenssicherung: Verwundbarkeit gegenüber gravitativen Massenbewegungen in Nepal
Forschungsprojekt: Landslide Hazard and Vulnerability: Unsafe Conditions in the Middle Hills of Nepal; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) NU102 / 12-1
Dr. Anne Ulrich 2015
Livelihood dynamics in tropical drylands: Mixed farming, water management and market integration in Laikipia, Kenya
Forschungsprojekt: Semi-arid areas in transition: Livelihood security, socio-ecological variability and the role of development interventions in East Africa (Volkswagen Foundation)
Dr. Paul Roden 2014
Socio-political change and development interventions in Laikipia County, Kenya
Forschungsprojekt: Semi-arid areas in transition: Livelihood security, socio-ecological variability and the role of development interventions in East Africa (Volkswagen Foundation)
Dr. Alexander Erlewein 2014
Wasserkraftentwicklung in Himachal Pradesh, Indien: Zwischen globalem Klimaschutz und lokalen Umweltveränderungen
Forschungsprojekt: Large Dams and ‘Clean Development’: Transcultural Narratives about Global Environmental Change and their Asymmetric Impacts; Excellence Cluster "Asia and Europe", C8
Dr. Ravi Baghel 2013
River Control in India: Spatial, Governmental and Subjective Dimensions
Forschungsprojekt: Large Dams - Contested Environments Between Hydro-Power and Resistance, Excellence Cluster "Asia and Europe", C2
Martin Gerwin
Changing Strategies of Resource Use in the Borderland of the Kumaon Himalaya, India
Forschungsprojekt: Changing Strategies of Resource Use: The 'Bhotiyas' in the High Mountain Border Region of Uttarakhand, India; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), NU102 / 10-1 and 10-2
Dr. Lars Stöwesand 2012
Hidden displacement: The hidden nature and neglect of conflict-induced displacement during the Maoist people's war in Nepal
[Südasien-Institut Universität Heidelberg, Kurt-Hiehle Stiftung, Eigenfinanzierung]
Dr. Juliane Dame 2012
Ernährungssicherung im Hochgebirge: Eine akteursorientierte Studie in Ladakh, Nordindien
Forschungsprojekt: Food security in Ladakh - Subsistence-oriented resource utilisation and socioeconomic transformation; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), NU102 / 7-1 and 7-2
External reviewer and examiner of PhD dissertations
- Alpine Permafrost dynamics in the Western Himalayas: A case study from the Spiti Valley (Soumik Das, 2024) [Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) New Delhi, India]
- The future of sustainable hydropower development in the Indus basin (Sanita Dhaubanjar, 2024) [Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Netherlands]
- Sustaining glacial-fed catchments with artificial ice reservoirs (Suryanarayanan Balasubramanian, 2023) [University of Fribourg, Switzerland]
- Forest Biomass and Land Cover Change Assessment of a National Park using Remote Sensing Based Approach: A Case Study from Pakistan (Mohammad Qasim, 2021) [TU Dresden, Fakultät Umweltwissenschaften, Fachrichtung Geowissenschaften]
- Climate trend detection in a data-scarce environment – a transdisciplinary study in the Pamir mountains of Tajikistan (Isabell Haag, 2021) [Universität Bayreuth, Geographie]
- Performance Assessment of Canal Irrigation: A Study of Pehur Main Canal, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan (Muhammad Siyar, 2018) [University of Peshawar, Geography, Peshawar, Pakistan]
- Stability and Change in African Environments: An Historical Ecology of Rangelands in Lesotho (Colin Brewster Hoag, 2016) [Aarhus University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Aarhus, Denmark]
- Landscape Dynamics in Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal: Impacts to Selected Environmental Services, Proximate Causes and Underlying Driving Forces (Rodney Garrard, 2016) [Universität Bern, Geography, Berne, Schweiz]
- Does Outmigration lead to Unsustainable Land Management? (Stéphanie Jaquet, 2016) [Universität Bern, Geography, Berne, Schweiz]
- Spatial Patterns and Effects of Public Water Supply System on Human Health in Lahore (Isma Younes, 2016) [University of the Punjab, Geography, Lahore, Pakistan]
- Implication of Land Use Change and Climate Change on Northwestern Drylands of Ethiopia (Worku Zewdie Gebrehiwot, 2016) [TU Dresden, Fakultät Umweltwissenschaften, Fachrichtung Geowissenschaften]
- Explaining Sustainability of Shimla City: Developing Environmental and Socio-Economic Indices (Renuka Thapliyal, 2015) [Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, New Delhi, India]
- Sustainable Development of Hydropower in India: Between Global Norms and Local Actions (Nirmalya Choudhury, 2012) [TU Berlin, Fachbereich Ingenieurwissenschaften]
- Inter-Effects of Tubewell Irrigated Agriculture and the Aquifer Potential in Balochistan: Case Study of Pishin Valley, 1981-2008 (Ahmad Saeed, 2012) [University of the Punjab, Geography, Lahore, Pakistan]
- Ground Water Pollution Caused by Municipal Solid Waste Sites and its Impact on Children's Health in Lahore (Ibtisam Butt, 2012) [University of the Punjab, Geography, Lahore, Pakistan]
- Education for Development in Northern Pakistan: Opportunities and Constraints of Schooling for the Improvement of Rural Households’ Living Conditions (Andreas Benz, 2011) [FU Berlin, Geographie]
- Erfassung und Bewertung von degradierten Böden mit Fernerkundung und GIS in Nordwest-Syrien (Ismail Al Mohamed, 2011) [TU Dresden, Geofernerkundung]
- Satellitenbildbasierte Grundkarten für einen thematischen Atlas der Northern Areas (Pakistan) mit Beispielen zur Umsetzung (Andre Walter, 2008) [Universität Bonn, Geographie]
- Spectral Mixture Analysis for Monitoring and Mapping Desertification Processes in Semi-arid Areas in North Kordofan State, Sudan (Manal Awad Khiry, 2007) [TU Dresden, Geofernerkundung]
External reviewer and examiner of habilitations
Mensch und Umwelt in Kirgistan – eine politisch-ökologische Untersuchung im postkolonialen und postsowjetischen Kontext (Matthias Schmidt, 2010) [FU Berlin, Geographie: external examiner]