Kai Niebert

Kai Niebert (born September 15, 1979 ) is a German sustainability researcher and professor for science education and sustainability at the University of Zurich .

Life

Kai Niebert is the son of two secondary school graduates . After two semesters, he dropped out of medicine and studied biology , chemistry and politics from 2001 to 2006 for teaching at grammar schools at Leibniz University in his hometown of Hanover . There he did his doctorate in 2010 with the topic Understanding Climate Change - A theory-led and evidence-based development of learning opportunities to convey climate change.

During his work as a research assistant at Leibniz University with research stays at Curtin University in Perth and Penn State University , he accepted the professorship for didactics of natural sciences at Leuphana University Lüneburg in 2012 .

Kai Niebert has been Professor of Science Didactics and Sustainability at the Institute for Educational Science at the University of Zurich since 2014 and continues to be a visiting professor at Leuphana.

In June 2018 Kai Niebert was appointed a member of the Commission for Growth, Structural Change and Employment of the German Federal Government. The commission ended its work in January 2019. Niebert was largely responsible for reaching a compromise and commented on the result of the commission's work, alluding to the federal government's inaction: "Even poor climate protection is better than no climate protection at all."

In June 2019 Kai Niebert was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the German Federal Environment Foundation .

Research areas

Niebert's scientific focus is on environmental education , sustainability and climate change .

Prizes and awards

• 2010 First place in the "Understanding Science" competition
• 2011 Young Talent Award of the Didactics of Biology Section (FDdB) in the Biology Association
• 2014 Leuphana Teaching Award: Research in Teaching

Honorary positions

• 2005–2011 Federal Director of Germany's Friends of Nature Youth
• since 2010 member of the advisory board of the German Environmental Foundation
• since 2011 Deputy Federal Chairman of NaturFreunde Deutschlands
• since 2015 President of the German Nature Conservation Ring (DNR)
• since 2016 member of the national advisory committee for the search for a repository (NBG)

Fonts

• Kai Niebert is co-editor of the magazine Movum - Briefe zur Transformation , which provides impetus for the design of a sustainable society.
• Understand climate change. A didactic reconstruction of global warming. Didactic Center, Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8142-2216-5 .
• with Michael Müller : A change of epoch: a plea for a green New Deal. oekom Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-86581-175-2 .

Web links

• Employee site University of Zurich
• Personal website

Individual evidence

1. ^ President of the German Nature Conservation Ring, Kai Niebert - Jung & Naiv: Episode 471. In: YouTube. Tilo Jung, August 16, 2020, accessed on August 17, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Kai Niebert: DNR President Niebert: "A strong entry into the coal phase-out". In: vorwaerts.de. January 30, 2019, accessed February 24, 2019 . 
3. ↑ SPIEGEL ONLINE: How the coal compromise came about: By a cigarette length. Retrieved August 11, 2019 . 
4. ↑ DBU - Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter leads the board of trustees of the DBU | Press. Retrieved August 11, 2019 . 
5. ↑ http://www.ufz.de/index.php?de=20805 accessed on December 7, 2015.
6. ↑ http://www.biodidaktik.de/?site_id=98 accessed on December 7, 2015.
7. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 7, 2015.  
8. ↑ Deutscher Naturschutzring elects Kai Niebert as new president , DNR press release of November 27, 2015, accessed on April 8, 2018.
9. ^ General assembly confirms the presidium in office , DNR press release from November 25, 2017, accessed on April 8, 2018.