Since 2024
Professor of Planetary Change and Politics
Justus Liebig University Giessen
Frederic Hanusch is Professor of Planetary Change and Politics at Justus Liebig University Giessen.
He is co-founder and director of the Panel on Planetary Thinking, course director of the M.Sc. One Health, and a member of the British Academy and Carnegie Endowment working group on Transnational and Planetary Challenges. He reviews for presses including MIT Press, Oxford University Press and the University of Chicago Press, and for journals including Nature Climate Change, Global Environmental Change and Earth System Governance. He regularly appears in newspapers, on radio and on television.

Since 2024
Justus Liebig University Giessen
2024
Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, University of Canberra
2022 – 2024
THE NEW INSTITUTE, Hamburg
2020 – 2024
Justus Liebig University Giessen
2016 – 2020
Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam
2016 – 2018
Institute for Political Science, Heidelberg University
2015 – 2016
Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI), Essen
2014 – 2015
Dialogue process “Fortschritt gestalten” of the NRW state government, workshop “Zukunft des Urbanen Lebens”, Essen
2014
School of the Environment, University of Toronto
2013 – 2016
German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU), Berlin
2013
Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI), Essen
Since 2026
Justus Liebig University Giessen
Since 2026
Justus Liebig University Giessen
Since 2025
British Academy & Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Global (Dis)Order Programme
Since 2024
Justus Liebig University Giessen
2022 – 2026
Earth System Governance Project
Since 2021
Justus Liebig University Giessen
2011 – 2015
University of Duisburg-Essen · Dissertation: The Influence of Democratic Quality on Reactions to Climate Change. A Comparative Study of Climate Policies in Established Democracies
2011
University of Essex
2008 – 2011
Heidelberg University
2007 – 2008
Universitat Jaume I, Castellón de la Plana
2005 – 2007
Justus Liebig University Giessen
2023 – 2024
Research Campus of Central Hessen · with Sven Opitz
2021 – 2025
Hessian Ministry of Higher Education, Research, Science and the Arts · with Claus Leggewie
2024
University of Canberra
2022 – 2024
THE NEW INSTITUTE, Hamburg
2014
International Council for Canadian Studies
2011 – 2015
Hans Böckler Foundation · at the KWI Essen
2008 – 2011
Friedrich Ebert Foundation