Expert Database
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The University of Kassel offers a wide range of experts who are happy to share their specialized knowledge with you in interviews.
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Health Care Reform
Department of Social Work and Social Welfare
Biography: Professor of Theory and Empirics of Health; former director of a public health department
Department of Human Sciences
Biography: Professor of Social and Health Law, Law of Rehabilitation and Disability; Adjunct Judge at the Federal Social Court; Member of a thematic working group of the DGB Pension Commission (2026).
Economic Transformation, Labor Market, Innovation
Kassel Institute for Sustainability
Biography: Head of the Sustainable Technology Design; former Head of the Future Energy and Industrial Systems Department at the Wuppertal Institute
Biography: Head of the Economic Policy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship. Member of the EFI Expert Commission
International Center for Higher Education Research (INCHER)
Biography: Professor of “Higher Education and the Labor Market” and researcher at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
Water, Drought, Heat, Climate Change
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Biography: Prof. Dr. Matthias Gaßmann is the head of the Hydrology and Material Cycle at the University of Kassel.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Biography: Head of Group Urban Water Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Biography: Head of the Hydraulic Engineering and Water Management Department; author of numerous studies on flood protection along German rivers
Renewable Energy, Grids
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Biography: Martin Braun heads the Sustainable Electrical Energy Systems research group, which is part of the Competence Center for Decentralized Electrical Energy Supply Technology (KDEE). He also serves as director of Fraunhofer IEE.
Department of Social Sciences
Biography: Professor of International and Intersocietal Relations, Co-Director of the Käte Hamburger Research Center “Raw Material Worlds”
Transportation, Mobility, Electric Drives
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Biography: Head of the Department of Transport Planning and Transport Systems
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Biography: Head of the Cycling and Sustainable Mobility Departement. Germany’s first “bicycle professor”
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Biography: Jens Friebe heads the Power Electronics Departement and focuses on active and passive components for the development and operation of electrical power supply systems in electric vehicles.
Infrastructure, Materials of the Future
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Biography: Head of the Mechanics and Dynamics Department
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Biography: Head of the Metallic Materials Departement
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Biography: Head of the Department of Construction Materials and Construction Chemistry
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Biography: Hans-Peter Heim heads the Plastics Engineering Department and coordinates research and development in the areas of materials, structures, digitalization, and the functional integration of plastics.
IT Technology Design, Data Protection
Department of Economics
Biography: Head of the Public Law, IT Law, and Environmental Law Departement
Design, Sustainable Design
Art College
Biography: Susanne Ritzmann holds a professorship in Sustainable Product Design and Development. She is a member of the German Society for Design Theory and Research (dgtf).