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Obituary for Prof. Dr Dr hc Rolf Emmermann

The GFZ mourns the loss of its founding director. Rolf Emmermann led the GFZ from 1992 to 2007 and left a lasting mark on the geosciences of his time. He passed away on 10 July 2026 at the age of 86.

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Obituary for Dr Saskia Esselborn

GFZ mourns the loss of our esteemed colleague, who passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on July 1 at the age of 57. She was a senior scientist in Section 1.2 “Global Geomonitoring and Gravity Field”.

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Klaus Töpfer Sustainability Fellowship: Lieselotte Viaene to Develop Guidelines for Ethical Transdisciplinary Cooperation

How can transdisciplinary collaboration between academic and artistic practitioners be improved? While participatory and co-creative approaches are increasingly popular, Belgian legal and environmental anthropologist Lieselotte Viaene argues that they often lack sufficient grounding in…

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