Sections / Facilities

Soil and plant science

Section	Head of Section
Agrarökosystemanalyse und -modellierung	Prof. Dr. Christoph Gornott
Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering	Prof. Dr. Oliver Hensel
Bodenbiologie und Pflanzenernährung	Prof. Dr. Rainer Georg Jörgensen
Soil science	Prof Dr. Tobias Weber
Grassland Science and Renewable Plant Resources	Prof. Dr. Michael Wachendorf
Organic Farming and Cropping Systems	Prof. Dr. Miriam Athmann
Organic Plant Production and Agroecosystems Research in the Tropics and Subtropics	Prof. Dr. Andreas Bürkert
Ecological Plant Protection	Prof. Dr. Maria R. Finckh
Organic Plant Breeding and Agrobiodiversity	Prof. Dr. Gunter Backes
Environmental Chemistry Environmental Chemistry	Prof. Dr. Bernard Ludwig

Animal science

Section	Head of Section
Farm Animal Behaviour and Animal Husbandry	Prof. Dr. Ute Knierim
Environmentally Sustainable Animal Nutrition	Prof. Dr. Fenja Klevenhusen
Animal Husbandry in the Tropics and Subtropics	Prof. Dr. Eva Schlecht
Animal Breeding	Prof. Dr. Dirk Hinrichs

Economic, social and food sciences

Section	Head of Section
Agricultural and Food Marketing	Prof. Dr. Katrin Zander
Betriebswirtschaft	Prof. Dr. Detlev Möller
Human-Environment Interactions	Prof. Dr. Andreas Christian Braun
International Agricultural Policy and Environmental Governance	Prof. Dr. Andreas Thiel
Management in the International Food Industry	NN
Organic Food Quality	Prof. Dr. Fabian Weber
Social-Ecological Interactions in Agricultural Systems	Prof. Dr. Tobias Plieninger
Soziologie Ländlicher Räume	Prof. Dr. Claudia Neu

Honorary and non-scheduled professorships, private lectureships

Section
Nematology
Science Management in International Organic Agriculture
Small Ruminants (organic management of sheep and goats)
Sustainable Food Systems and Food Sovereignty

Overarching institutions