Curriculum Vitae

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.

Frederic Hanusch speaking at a lectern, with maps projected behind him
Speaking at the Futur 21 conference · Photo: Karin Hessmann

Positions

Since 2024

Professor of Planetary Change and Politics

Justus Liebig University Giessen

2024

Distinguished Visiting Fellow

Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, University of Canberra

2022 – 2024

Recruited Fellow, The Future of Democracy programme

THE NEW INSTITUTE, Hamburg

2020 – 2024

Co-Founder and Scientific Manager, Panel on Planetary Thinking

Justus Liebig University Giessen

2016 – 2020

Research Group Leader (2019 – 2020), Research Associate (2016 – 2018)

Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam

2016 – 2018

Visiting Lecturer

Institute for Political Science, Heidelberg University

2015 – 2016

Research Fellow

Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI), Essen

2014 – 2015

Research Associate

Dialogue process “Fortschritt gestalten” of the NRW state government, workshop “Zukunft des Urbanen Lebens”, Essen

2014

Visiting Scholar

School of the Environment, University of Toronto

2013 – 2016

Research Analyst

German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU), Berlin

2013

Research Assistant

Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI), Essen

Leadership & service

Since 2026

Course Director, M.Sc. One Health

Justus Liebig University Giessen

Since 2026

Deputy Director, Department of Agricultural Policy and Market Research

Justus Liebig University Giessen

Since 2025

Member, Working Group on Transnational and Planetary Challenges

British Academy & Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Global (Dis)Order Programme

Since 2024

Director, Panel on Planetary Thinking

Justus Liebig University Giessen

2022 – 2026

Co-Convener, Working Group on Democracy

Earth System Governance Project

Since 2021

Member, Joint Commission for Sustainability

Justus Liebig University Giessen

Education

2011 – 2015

PhD in Political Science, summa cum laude

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

Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis

University of Essex

2008 – 2011

MA in Political Science, Philosophy and Sociology

Heidelberg University

2007 – 2008

Erasmus exchange in the Humanities

Universitat Jaume I, Castellón de la Plana

2005 – 2007

Intermediate examination in Political Science, Philosophy and Sociology

Justus Liebig University Giessen

Grants

2023 – 2024

Planet as Method

Research Campus of Central Hessen · with Sven Opitz

2021 – 2025

Planetary Scholars and Artists in Residence Program

Hessian Ministry of Higher Education, Research, Science and the Arts · with Claus Leggewie

Fellowships

2024

Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research and Enterprise Visiting Distinguished Fellow

University of Canberra

2022 – 2024

Recruited Fellow, The Future of Democracy programme

THE NEW INSTITUTE, Hamburg

2014

Graduate Student Scholarship

International Council for Canadian Studies

2011 – 2015

PhD Scholarship, research training group “Democracy and Climate Change”

Hans Böckler Foundation · at the KWI Essen

2008 – 2011

Student Scholarship

Friedrich Ebert Foundation