Dr. Kathrin Foshag

Dr. Kathrin Foshag (née Leutz) is a researcher at TdLab Geography at the Department of Geography at Heidelberg University. Previously, she worked as a PostDoc researcher at the Institute of Environmental Physics. She completed her dissertation on "Climate Change in the Public Spaces of the City of Heidelberg. Transdisciplinary Challenges of Urban Spaces" at the Heidelberg School of Education (HSE) in 2018. Her research focusses on the analyses of socially relevant topics such as adaptation to climate change. In addition to being strongly grounded in natural sciences disciplines, the integration of expertise and perspectives of stakeholders outside academia into the research process plays a major role.

Research interests

• Transdisciplinary research on adaptation to the impacts of climate change
• Sustainable Development
• Education for sustainable development

Selected Publications

• Foshag, K., Przybill, K., Aeschbach, N., Lautenbach, S. & Zipf, A. (2023). Challenges and solution approach for greenhouse gas emission inventories at fine spatial resolutions – the example of the Rhine-Neckar district. TdLab Geographie – Discussion Paper No. 2. Heidelberg University. pp. 17. https://doi.org/10.11588/heidok.00034126.
• Aeschbach, N., D. Röck, K. Foshag, E. Engelhardt, L. Mosmann, W. Aeschbach (2023). Climate Physics meets Education for Sustainable Development – How to address wicked problems through blended learning. HINT. Heidelberg Inspirations for Innovative Teaching. Bd. 4/2023: 47–71. https://doi.org/10.11588/hint.2023.1.101927
• Foshag, K., K. Vogt, S. Ebenhoch, N. Aeschbach, 2022. How transdisciplinary projects can contribute to climate-friendly mobility in cities. TdLab Geographie – Discussion Paper No. 1. Heidelberg University. pp. 19. DOI: 10.11588/heidok.00032531. Download
• K. Foshag, N. Aeschbach, B. Hoefle, R. Winkler, A. Siegmund, W. Aeschbach, 2020. Viability of public spaces in cities under increasing heat: a transdisciplinary approach. Sustainable Cities and Society. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2020.102215.
• N. Aeschbach, K. Foshag, 2019. Zusammen Wirken. Die Große Transformation. Forschungsmagazin Ruperto Carola der Universität Heidelberg. Available from: https://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/index.php/rupertocarola/article/view/24095/17804.
• K. Leutz, 2019. Klimawandel an oeffentlichen Plaetzen der Stadt Heidelberg. Transdisziplinaere Herausforderungen urbaner Raeume., Ph.D. thesis in Combined Faculties of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. University of Heidelberg: Heidelberg. Available from: http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/25989/1/Dissertation_Leutz_Kathrin_2018.pdf.
• K. Leutz, 2018. Forschendes Lernen zum Thema Klimawandel. In: S. Eck, Editor, 2018. Forschendes Lernen - Lernendes Forschen, Beltz Juventa, p. 192-201.
• K. Leutz, 2017. Forschungsnahes, Forschungsorientiertes, Forschungsbasiertes oder einfach Forschendes Lernen. Available from: https://hse.hypotheses.org/657.
• Fohlmeister, J., C. Spoetl, B. Plessen, R. Tjallingii, A. Schroeder-Ritzrau, N. Frank, J. Arps, K. Leutz, N. Vollweiler, M. Truessel, 2017. Oxygen isotope fractionation processes in the water-calcite-aragonite system. Geophysical Research, Abstracts Vol. 19, EGU2017-6325.
• Arps J., M. Truessel, K. Leutz, A. Schroeder-Ritzrau, L. Edwards, H. Cheng, P. Zhang, F. Thil, M. Deininger, N. Aeschbach, C. Spoetl, J. Fohlmeister, N. Frank N, 2017. Centennial Growth Rate Variability of Two Alpine Holocene Speleothems. Goldschmidt2017 Abstract.

Curriculum Vitae

• Since March 2022 Consultant at Momentum Novum
• Since 2021 Research associate at the Department of Geography at Heidelberg University
• October - December 2020 Part-time employment at the Research Centre of the Evangelische Studiengemeinschaft e.V. (FEST) Heidelberg in the field of sustainable development
• January 2020 - January 2021 Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Environmental Physics and the Heidelberg Centre for the Environment (HCE) in the project "Climate Action Science”
• since 2019 Postdoctoral researcher at the TdLab Geography, Department of Geography at Heidelberg University
• 2019 Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Environmental Physics, Heidelberg University
• 2018 PhD at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at Heidelberg University with a topic in the field of climate change adaptation
• 2018 Baden-Württemberg Certificate for University Teaching
• 2017 Awarded the Baden-Württemberg Certificate for University Didactics
• since 2016 Interdisciplinary courses (seminars and excursions) at Heidelberg University
• October 2015 - 2018 Research associate at the Heidelberg School of Education (HSE)
• January - October 2015 Research associate at the Heidelberg Centre for the Environment, Heidelberg University
• June 2012 - October 2015 Research associate at the Institute for Environmental Physics, Heidelberg University
• 2014 Master of Science in Geography, Heidelberg University
• 2012 Bachelor of Science in Geography, Heidelberg University