Dr. Simone Pfeiffer

I am a scientific coordinator and project leader in the Campus Centre of Biodiversity and Sustainable Land Use. These are my tasks:

Centre coordination
Project initiation, application support and administration in the areas of biodiversity and ecology, as well as in tropical and subtropical agriculture and forestry
Alumni activities
Event management
Science communication
Teaching: Key Competencies Module "Sustainability - basics and application" and Lecture Series "Nachhaltige Entwicklung"

Current and recent research and teaching development projects:

Administration of documenta fifteen funds Sustainability project in Indonesia 2022 - 2025
Participation in digitally supported teaching projects for the internationalization of curricula and promotion of international cooperation:
(1) DAAD IMKD Project liveSciences³ 2020 - 2023
(2) Support in digitalisation of course material for MSc Forest and Ecosystem Sciences SP TIF: Traditional agroforestry systems of SE Asia, planted forests, and forest management planing
Project lead for the DAAD project "Integrating Forest Management with Biodiversity Education in Papuan Universities" 2019 - 2022
Project lead for the DAAD IVAC project "Forest Management Planning for the Tropics" 2021 - 2022
Administration of the BMEL funded project parts of Agricultural Trade and Market Access for Food Security (ATMA4FS) as part of the EU LEAP-Agri Program 2018 - 2021
Coordinating project assistence of the MWK funded project Sustainable Trout Aquaculture Intensification (SusTAIn) 2017 - 2021

Event management

Organisation of DAAD Alumni Programme in Mexico 2024 and 2025 two seminars in Mexico and virtual exchange
Organisation of DAAD Alumni Training Seminar Multifunctional Forest Management as Active Climate Protection, January 2023
Organisation of Assembly of the Association of the German Bee Research Institutes e.V., 24 March 2021

Membership in boards

member of the scientific board of the biodiversity museum Göttingen
Secretary of the Society of Ecology of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (GfÖ since 2020)
Treasurer of the Society for Tropical Ecology (gtö since 2020)

Networking and knowledge transfer in collaboration with: