I am a Physical Geographer with over ten years of professional experience in the fields of land-system and sustainability science. My research broadly focuses on identifying pathways toward sustainable human-environment systems in the context of global change. I specialise in spatially explicit, large-scale land-system assessments to explore patterns, determinants, and impacts of land management. My work is grounded in quantitative methods, including land-change (simulation) models, frequentist and machine learning regression techniques, and spatial statistics. Geographically, my research mainly focuses on Europe and South America. I enjoy working in interdisciplinary and diverse settings, and have contributed to several collaborative research projects. I highly value knowledge transfer through teaching. I have designed and taught various courses at the Bachelor, Master, and Graduate levels in Germany and the Netherlands, and have extensive experience supervising students and doctoral candidates in both national and international contexts. I work as a Senior Scientist at the Thünen Institute of Biodiversity (Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute - Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries in Germany), where I lead a research group focused on indicators, monitoring, and modelling at the land-use-biodiversity interface. I am a guest researcher at the Conservation Biogeography Lab, working on my habilitation project titled “Towards an Improved Representation of Marginalized Land-Use Actors in Land-System Science”.

christian.levers@hu-berlin.de
Rudower Chaussee 16, 12489 Berlin
Room 2'105