Mitarbeiter

Qualifications

• Coordination of knowledge transfer
• Managing inter- and transdisciplinary research consortia
• Managing stakeholder relationships, building partnerships, and networks
• Conducting fundraising activities and proposal writing
• Designing and organizing transdisciplinary exchange formats and science-policy events
• Planning and organizing national and international meetings and conferences
• Conceptualizing public relation activities and science communication, including editorial work

 

Employment

since 2021 Coordinator of Knowledge Transfer for the Research Mission of the German Marine Research Alliance (DAM) »Marine carbon sinks in decarbonisation pathways« CDRmare

2021 - 2024 Officer Knowledge Transfer GEOMAR

2013 - 2021 Project and Science Communication Manager of the interdisciplinary DFG Priority Program SPP 1689 “Climate Engineering: Risks, Challenges, Opportunities?”

2008 - 2012 Executive Manager of the Kiel Earth Institute (Initiative of the Kiel Institute for
the World Economy and the GEOMAR)

2006 - 2008 Consultant and Senior Trainer Environmental Ship Management German Llloyd / Det Norske Veritas

2003 - 2006 Environmental Officer AIDA Cruises Ships

2001 - 2002 Consultant and Trainee UNEP/DTIE & UNESCO, Paris

1998 - 2001 Editor in a media monitoring agency

Education

1994 - 2000 Master’s degree in physical geography, modern history and political science at the Humboldt University of Berlin

Selected trainings:

Management of interdisciplinary research associations (2015, Centre for Science Management Speyer), Advanced training in business administration / management (2008, Business Academy Kiel), Various training courses in auditing and environmental ship management (2003-2006)

Publications

• Rütters, H., Löschke, S., Bernitt, U., Hamann, K., Janssen, G., Kannen, A., Knopf, S., Kuhlmann, G., May, F., Proelß, A., Scheffler, U., Schwenk, A., Strauß, R., Stück, H., Wallmann, K. und Westmark, L. (2024) CO2-Speicherung im Meeresgebiet – Nutzungskonflikte und Einbeziehung in die Meeresraumplanung?. . GEOSTOR/BGR, Kiel/Hannover, Germany, 47 pp. DOI 10.3289/CDRmare.34. .
• Mengis, N. , Bernitt, U. und Oschlies, A. (2022) Klima retten mit Kohlendioxid-Entnahme?. Promet - Meteorologische Fortbildung, 105 . pp. 69-75. DOI 10.5676/DWD_pub/promet_105_09. .
• Kreuter, J., Matzner, N., Baatz, C., Keller, D.P., Markus, T., Wittstock, F., Bernitt, U. and Mengis, N. (2020) Unveiling assumptions through interdisciplinary scrutiny: Observations from the German Priority Program on Climate Engineering (SPP 1689). Climatic Change. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-020-02777-4
• Löschke, S. und Schröder, T. and Schwerpunktprogramm 1689 der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft „Climate Engineering: Risks, Challenges, Opportunities?“ (SPP 1689) (2019) Climate Engineering und unsere Klimaziele – eine überfällige Debatte. , ed. by Bernitt, U.. DFG, 72 pp.
• Döring R., Visbeck M., Bernitt U., van Doorn E., Schäfer K. (2016) Meere. In: Ott K., Dierks J., Voget-Kleschin L. (eds) Handbuch Umweltethik. J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05193-6_43
• Narberhaus, I., Krause, J., Bernitt, U. (Eds.) (2012): Threatened Biodiversity in the German North und Baltic Seas: sensitivities towards human activities and the effects of climate change / Federal Agency for Nature Conservation. Bonn. ISBN: 978-3-7843-4017-3