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23. January 2020
Merca­tor Profes­sor­ship for Antje Boetius

Antje Boetius is Merca­tor Profes­sor 2020 at the Univer­sity of Duisburg-Essen

This year's Merca­tor Profes­sor­ship is held by Hector Fellow Antje Boetius. "With Profes­sor Antje Boetius, we have succeeded in gaining a proven scien­tific person­al­ity and ambitious advocate of climate protec­tion as a Merca­tor Profes­sor. I am very pleased about this and look forward to the impulses she will provide in the course of her lectures at the UDE", said the Rector of the Univer­sity of Duisburg-Essen, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Radtke.

As a Merca­tor Profes­sor, Antje Boetius will give two lectures on her research on climate change and climate protec­tion in the winter semes­ter 2020/2021. The dates are 12 Novem­ber (Duisburg) and 10 Decem­ber (Essen). Regis­tra­tion for partic­i­pa­tion in the lectures is required and will proba­bly be possi­ble here from October.

The Merca­tor Profes­sor­ship was estab­lished in 1997 to keep alive the scien­tific legacy of the famous Duisburg cartog­ra­pher and polymath Gerhard Merca­tor (1512–1594). Famous persons who held the profes­sor­ship were, among others, Joachim Gauck, Richard von Weizsäcker, Götz W. Werner or Alice Schwarzer.

Congrat­u­la­tions to Antje Boetius!