Dr. rer. nat. Denise Heike Böhnke
- KIT Scientific Coordinator of Urban Research
- Scientist for climate adaptation
- Group: Division 4 - Natural and Built Environment
- Office Hours: Nach Absprache
- Room:
CN 141 - denise boehnke ∂does-not-exist.kit edu
Bereich 4 - Natürliche und gebaute Umwelt
KIT - Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
Campus NordHermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, Geb. 141
76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen
Scientific Officer KIT Urban Research
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Since 2021, a cross-departmental coordination office for urban research has been in place at KIT. This is intended both for the networking of scientists at KIT among themselves and externally.
The aim is, among other things, to make the diverse research topics on urban research at KIT more visible as a whole, to network them better among each other, and thus also to open up new research fields. The aim is to support interdisciplinary research between the different urban topics and institutes as well as transdisciplinary research with and into practice.
Are you, as a city, municipality, association or company, looking for a suitable contact person in the field of urban research at KIT? I will be happy to support you in your search, just contact me!
I am very happy about this new challenge to be able to make my personal contribution in the context of such an exciting, complex and highly topical topic mosaic as urban research.
Knowledge Transfer
Due to the high dynamics and increasing relevance of urban research in all disciplines, it is necessary as a speaker to constantly exchange and transfer within research and from KIT to the public.
| 2022 Nov | Re-Building Europe -Towards a future shaping ecosystem. @ Imperial College, London. Event page. |
| 2022 Nov | Parliamentary Evening - The Climate Resilient City. Research in dialogue with politics. @ Bundestag, Berlin. Event page. |
| 2022 Oct | DIN/DKE Innovation Conference 2022: City of the Future - How can the green and digital transformation succeed? @ DIN, Berlin. Event page. |
| 2022 July | 8th Mainau Sustainability Dialogue: Our water in times of climate change - Adaptation strategies for urban and rural areas. Virtual. Event page. |
| 2022 May | Transfer conference of the BMBF funding measure "Resource Efficient Urban Neighborhoods for the Future (RES:Z)". @ Dechema-Haus, Frankfurt am Main. Event page. |
| 2022 Nov | Impulse lecture "Climate-friendly city" at the closed meeting of the city of Herbolzheim. @ EnBW Rheinhausen, Rheinhausen. |
| 2022 Jun | Impulse lecture "Implementation of scientific findings in urban planning actions" at the 6th Impulse Conference on Climate-Adapted Urban and Regional Development of the Academy for Nature and Environmental Protection Baden-Württemberg. Flyer (pdf). |
| 2021 Dec | Lecture "The microclimate in Thessaloniki, July 2021". @ Goethe-Institut, Thessaloniki. |
| 2021 Mar | Lecture "Karlsruhe sweats: Heat summer in the city center and how research can help" for the pilot "And what do you do?". Project. |
| 2019 Oct | Poster presentations "Adaptation to Climate Change" and Expert Cafe at the network meeting "Climate Change Adaptation in Municipalities" of municipalities and counties in Rhineland-Palatinate. @ Hohenstaufensaal, Annweiler. Flyer. |
My research
In the future, the consequences of climate change will present us with challenges that individuals can hardly assess today in terms of their extent and significance for their lives, but also for our society. Whether we are talking about individual resources such as water or the entire urban ecosystem, one first has to understand current conditions and underlying interrelationships and (ecological) dependencies, the changes which have already occurred and consequences which can be expected from future changes. Based on this, we can elaborate how to adapt to expected changes and their consequences to minimize negative impacts locally.
This can only be achieved if science and municipalities work even more closely together, hand in hand and goal-oriented. Politics and municipalities set the local course for the necessary action, while science provides forecasts of the expected changes and - in cooperation with practitioners - possible solutions. For some years now, I have therefore been interested in the interface between science and municipal practice and the integration of research knowledge into everyday planning and public.
My research interests are very interdisciplinary in order to cover the human-urban-climate change interface as broadly and interconnectedly as possible. Find some examples below:
- Climate adaptation: adaptation strategies, measures and their implementation in planning processes.
- Urban climatology and biometeorology: measurement and assessment of urban heat and microclimatic effects
- Urban ecosystem services: Inventory and assessment, ways for consideration in planning or policy decisions
- Assessment of quality of life in public spaces
- Urban ecology and urban green
Applied research projects
until 2021
NaMaRes: Resource Management in Neighborhoods in the Context of Sustainable Urban Development (2019-2021), KIT-AGW
- Joint project with four partners from KIT (AGW, IIP, FIWI, CMM), the city of Karlsruhe, Smart Geomatics GmbH and the planning office sippel.buff; funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research
- Aims: Web tool development for the physical description and evaluation of urban neighborhoods with regard to the resources water, land, material flows, open and green spaces, ecosystem services), taking into account actors, options for action and conflicting goals.
KomKlim: Implementation of municipal climate adaptation in urban land use planning in the pilot project of the development of the Spinelli Barracks / Grünzug Nordost site in Mannheim, Germany (2017 – 2018), KIT-IfR
- Cooperation project between the KIT Institutes of Regional Science and of Applied Geosciences and the planning administration of the city of Mannheim, sponsored by the State Institute for the Environment Baden-Württemberg (LUBW)
- Aims: Integration of scientists into an ongoing urban land use planning process as climate experts / adaptation managers; development of a climate adaptation concept for the new 20ha urban district (heat/heavy rain/ventilation) taking into account the legal regulations; incorporation of the measures into the planning; investigation of the possibilities and obstacles.
- Cooperation project between the KIT Institutes of Geography and Geoecology (IfGG) and for Technology and Management in Construction (TMB) and four four nuclear power plant sites in SW Germany sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
- Aim: Develop a model for future decommissioning that allows forecasting of the potential economic and societal impacts on the population and industry.
- Joint project between the KIT Institutes of Geography and Geoecology and of Zoology and the State Health Office of Baden-Württemberg, funded by the BWPLUS program of the Ministry of the Environment, Climate, and Energy Management of Baden-Württemberg (LUBW) and by the KIT Graduate School for Climate and Environment (GRACE).
- Doctoral thesis: Habitat ecology and microclimatic influences on the distribution of Ixodes ricinus ticks in Baden-Württemberg
Academic career, research grants and qualifications
| July 2021 | Networking grant of the KHYS-ConYS (KIT) program; 1-month stay at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; inner-city temperature measurement campaign in July 2021 | |
| July 2016 | Doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.), subject of the dissertation: „Habitat ecology and microclimatic influences on the distribution of Ixodes ricinus ticks in Baden-Württemberg”  |
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| 2014 – 2015 | Full scholarship of the Graduate School for Climate and Environment (GRACE) | |
| 2012 – 2013 | KIT Mentoring Program (X-Ment ) |
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| 2012 – 2016 | Further education in the field of project management and scientific writing, financed by Karlsruhe House of Young Scientists (KHYS) | |
| 2012 – 2016 | Advanced training program of the Helmholtz Graduate School for Climate and Environment (GRACE) | |
| 2003 – 2011 | Study of geoecology at KIT (until 2009: University of Karlsruhe) |
Teaching
Urban Ecology - Lecture, Practical Course, Seminar
Supervised theses (since 2019).
Marina Klaus (2022): Systematization and value assessment of diverse ecosystem services of urban green spaces. Master thesis.
Ronja Becker (2022): Contribution of settlement areas to insect food diversity. Master thesis.
Alice Krehl (2022): Further development of ecosystem performance indicators for decision support in urban neighborhood development. Master thesis.
Carolin Reichert (2022): Implementing sustainable urban development in land-use plans - historical development and current and future challenges. Master's thesis.
Jerutka, Kirke (2020): Structural and functional diversity of city squares - an assessment concept. Bachelor thesis.
Mandler, Rebekka (2020): Construction of an urban climatological model for the analysis of cold air flows and the urban heat island using the example of the inner city east in Karlsruhe. Master thesis.
Geiger, Yannis (2019): Modeling urban climatic impacts of development measures at the KIT South Campus on adjacent urban areas. Master thesis.
Bach, Jessica (2019): Heat stress and effects of environmental parameters of Lidellplatz in Karlsruhe city center on human bioclimate. Master's thesis.
Krehl, Alice (2019): Inventory of ecosystem services in the inner city east in Karlsruhe. Bachelor thesis.
City squares
Böhnke, D; Jerutka, K. (2020): City squares: On assessing the amenity quality of urban spaces. (original in German)
STADT und RAUM 6/2020, S 330-335
Publications and Presentations
Böhnke, D. H.
2024, March 19. 10. BIOMET-Tagung (2024), Offenbach, Germany, March 19–21, 2024
Krehl, A.; Boehnke, D.; Norra, S.
2023. doi:10.5445/IR/1000158354
Naber, E.; Volk, R.; Schultmann, F.; Krehl, A.; Böhnke, D. H.; Norra, S.; Ehbrecht, A.; Schuhmann, R.
2023. doi:10.5445/IR/1000158422
Boehnke, D.; Krehl, A.; Mörmann, K.; Volk, R.; Lützkendorf, T.; Naber, E.; Becker, R.; Norra, S.
2022. Sustainability, 14 (15), Art.-Nr.: 9029. doi:10.3390/su14159029
Boehnke, D.; Tsegas, G.; Moussiopoulos, N.
2022, June 29. 13th International Conference on Air Quality - Science and Application (2022), Thessaloniki, Greece, June 27–July 1, 2022
Böhnke, D.; Volk, R.; Lützkendorf, T.; Naber, E.; Krehl, A.; Becker, R.; Norra, S.
2021. Flächennutzungsmonitoring XIII. Hrsg.: G. Meinel, 149–157, Rhombos-Verlag. doi:10.26084/13dfns-p014
Volk, R.; Naber, E.; Lützkendorf, T.; Böhnke, D.; Mörmann, K.; Schultmann, F.; Norra, S.
2021. Flächennutzungsmonitoring XIII. Hrsg.: G. Meinel, 209–219, Rhombos-Verlag. doi:10.26084/13dfns-p019
Boehnke, D.
2021. Atmosphere, 12 (4), Art.-Nr. 503. doi:10.3390/atmos12040503
Böhnke, D.; Norra, S.
2021. Transforming cities, (3), 34–39
Boehnke, D.
2021. 14th International Symposium on Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases (2021), Online, März 24-26, 2021
Boehnke, D.
2021, March 8. Wissenschaftskommunikation im Projekt “Und was machst du so? (2021), Online, March 8, 2021
Boehnke, D.; Jerutka, K.
2020. Stadt und Raum, (6), 330–335
Boehnke, D.
2020, February. 5. Konferenz "Räume neu denken - Planung in einer Welt im Wandel" (2020), Dortmund, Germany, February 17–18, 2020
Volk, R.; Lützkendorf, T.; Schambelon, S.; Naber, E.; Mörmann, K.; Böhnke, D.; Norra, S.; Schuhmann, R.; Ehbrecht, A.; Balouktsi, M.; Schultmann, F.
2020, June. Beyond - World Sustainable Built Environment Conference (2020), Online, November 2–4, 2020
Böhnke, D.
2019. FSME in Deutschland. Stand der Wissenschaft. Hrsg.: Franz Rubel, Julia Schiffner-Rohe, 137–150, Deutscher Wissenschaftsverlag
Petney, T.; Littvin, N.; Böhnke, D.; Obiegala, A.; Schaeffer, M.; Muders, S.; Pfäffle, M.; Pfeffer, M.
2019. FSME in Deutschland. Stand der Wissenschaft. Hrsg.: Franz Rubel, Julia Schiffner-Rohe, Julia, 81–94, Deutscher Wissenschaftsverlag
Boehnke, D.
2019, September. GRACE Sommerschule - Saubere Energie und Nachhaltigkeit (Summer School - Clean Energy and Sustainability) (2019), Possidi, September 2–6, 2019
Boehnke, D.; Körner, F.; Greuloch, W.
2019, October 29. Klimawandelanpassung in Kommunen - Netzwerktreffen rheinland-pfälzischer Kommunen und Landkreise (2019), Annweiler am Trifels, Germany, October 29, 2019
Boehnke, D.
2018. 2. Symposium "Wahrnehmung und Bewertung von Böden in der Gesellschaft", Leipzig, 11.-12.10.2018, DBG
Boehnke, D.
2018, November. Universidade Federal do Paraná (2018), Curitiba, Brazil, November 2, 2018
Böhnke, D. H.; Norra, S.; Petney, T. N.; Gebhardt, R.
2018, March 12. 4. Süddeutscher Zeckenkongress (2018), Stuttgart, Germany, March 12–14, 2018
Publications until 2017 (tick research)
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2017 |
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| Boehnke, Denise; Gebhardt, Reiner; Petney, Trevor; Norra, Stefan (2017) On the complexity of measuring forests microclimate and interpreting its relevance in habitat ecology: the example of Ixodes ricinus ticks In: Parasites and Vectors, in press. DOI 10.1186/s13071-017-2498-5 Open access  |
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2016 |
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| Böhnke, Denise (2016) Habitat ecology and microclimatic influences on the distribution of Ixodes ricinus ticks in Baden-Württemberg Dissertation, Karlsruhe DOI(KIT): 10.5445/IR/1000061789 Open access |
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| Brugger K; Boehnke D; Petney T; et.al. (2016) A Density Map of the Tick-Borne Encephalitis and Lyme Borreliosis Vector Ixodes ricinus (Acari: Ixodidae) for Germany In: Journal of Medical Entomology, vol.53, n°6, 2016, p. 1292-1302. DOI: 10.1093/jme/tjw116 Access |
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| Boehnke D; Brugger K; Pfäffle M; Sebastian P; Norra S; Petney T; Oehme R; Littwin N; Lebl K; Raith J; Walter M; Gebhardt R; Rubel F (2015) Estimating Ixodes ricinus densities on the landscape scale International Journal of Health Geographics. DOI: 10.1186/s12942-015-0015-7 Open access |
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| Petney T; Pfäffle M.; Littwin N.; Norra S.; Böhnke D.; Hogewind F.; Gebhardt R.; Oehme R; Steidle J.; Kahl O.; Dautel H. (2015) Untersuchung der Ökologie von Zecken als Überträger von Krankheitserregern in Baden - Württemberg in Bezug auf Habitat, Landnutzung, Wirtstiere und Klima In: Fachdokumente zur Umweltforschung der LUBW. Gefördert durch Programm „Lebensgrundlage Umwelt und ihre Sicherung“ (LUBW), Land Baden-Württemberg. Zwischenbericht 2015 |