Franz Mauelshagen

Franz Mauelshagen received his PhD in history from the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He was a Senior Fellow and member of the Board of Directors at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut (KWI) / Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Essen, Germany, where he also coordinated the "Climate & Culture" research program. In 2010 he was awarded a research grant from Germany’s Federal Ministry for Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF) for the project "Climates of Migration: Climate Change and Environmental Migration in History." Franz’s research focuses on the history of climate, natural hazards and adaptation to environmental risk.