Team of the Chair of Transformation of Sustainable Energy Systems
Lead
Prof. Dr. Cathrin Zengerling, LL. M. (University of Michigan)
Full Professor
tel.: +49 761 203 67812, cathrin.zengerling@enrlaw.uni-freiburg.de
Cathrin Zengerling is a legal scholar and works primarily in the areas of (international) environmental, energy and planning law as well as sustainable urban development. She heads the junior professorship and now chair of "Transformation to Sustainable Energy Systems" since August 2019 and June 2024 respectively, and the research group "Urban Footprints" - funded by a Freigeist-Fellowship of the Volkswagen Foundation - since January 2018. Previously, she had been researching and teaching as a postdoc at HafenCity University Hamburg since November 2015, particularly in the context of the master's program in Resource Efficiency in Architecture and Planning (REAP). From May 2011 to October 2015, she worked as a lawyer in the Hamburg law firm Günther Rechtsanwälte, mainly in the areas of energy, construction and environmental law.
Research Assistants
M. Sc. Nikita John
Ph.D. student
Room 020 54
tel.: +49 761 203 67813, nikita.john@enrlaw.uni-freiburg.de
M. Sc. Lisa Harseim
Ph.D. student
Room 020 55
tel.: +49 761 203 67811, lisa.harseim@enrlaw.uni-freiburg.de
Lina Irscheid
Ph.D. student
Raum 020 52
+49 761 203 67811, lina.irscheid@enrlaw.uni-freiburg.de
Ahmed Tarek Al-Ahwal
Ph.D. student
Raum 020 54
+4915906797092, a.tarek.alahwal@enrlaw.uni-freiburg.de
M. Sc. Marina Klimke
Ph.D. student
Raum 020 52
+49 761 203 67811, marina.klimke@enrlaw.uni-freiburg.de
Erica Manuelli 
Student Assistant
erica.manuelli@students.uni-freiburg.de
Linn Meyer
Student Assistant
Secretary
Isabella Katz
Room 02 044 (2nd floor Herderbau)
Tennenbacher Str. 4
79106 Freiburg
+49 761 203 8599, sekretariat@enrlaw.uni-freiburg.de
office hours: Monday to Friday 9 a.m. - 1.p.m.