ABOUT US

People at TransTiP

The International Research Training Group "Geo-ecosystems in transition on the Tibetan Plateau (TransTiP)" consists of  Principal Investigators of Technische Universität Braunschweig, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, as well as researchers affiliated with the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, ITP-CAS, Beijing, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, IB-CAS, Beijing, and University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, UCAS, Beijing. The German team includes scientists based at non-university research institutions, the Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences, the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (MPI-BGC), and the Leibniz Institute DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH.

The PhD-projects and PostDoc-project from various disciplines in geosciences are jointly conducted by German and Chinese principle investigators and doctoral researchers from all over the world. Our graduate students are part of internationally-competitive cutting-edge research are prepared for environmental impact assessment and environmental problem solving by crossing disciplines on a high international level.

Doctoral and Postdoctoral ResearchersPIs and SupervisorsManagement

doctoral students at Kick Off
Doctoral Researchers and Postdoc at the Kick-Off Meeting in Braunschweig, February 8, 2018
Advisory Board
Antje Schwalb with Members of the Advisory Board: Liping Zhou (Peking University), Carina Hoorn (Universiteit van Amsterdam), Erwin Appel (Universität Tübingen)
Summer School 2018
Members of TransTiP at the 1st TransTiP Summer School in Lhasa
field work 2018
First field campaign in July 2018 at NAMORS station (Nam Co, Tibet)
Gruppenfoto Summerschule Chengdu
2019 TPE & TransTiP Science and Technology Training, Chengdu, China
fieldwork 2019
Fieldwork campaign 2019
summerschool
First virtual sino-german Summer School in 2020, August 31 to September 5.
Doctoral Researchers of Second cohort
The new doctoral researchers at the Kick-Off Meeting for the Second Cohort, January 29, 2021
groupphoto
Doctoral Researchers meeting in the Harz mountains for an Outdoor First Aid Course for high mountain regions in August 2021 - group 1
groupphoto
Doctoral Researchers meeting in the Harz mountains for an Outdoor First Aid Course for high mountain regions in August 2021 - group 2
TransTiP docotral researchers
Doctoral Researchers of the second cohort visiting the Black Forest during our Summer School in July 2022
TransTiP@GobiDesert Research Station
TransTiP doctoral and associated researchers visiting the Gobi Desert Research Station of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, during our Summer School in July 2023