Merkenschlager, C., Hertig, E., Simon, J., & Beck, C. (2023). High-resolution intra-urban assessments of future heat events and heat waves for the city of Augsburg, Germany. Urban Climate, 49, 101472.

Hertig, E., Jahn, S., & Kaspar‐Ott, I. (2023). Future Local Ground‐level Ozone in the European area from Statistical Downscaling Projections Considering Climate and Emission Changes. Earth's Future, e2022EF003317.

The 2022 Publication Award of the Faculty of Medicine goes to Dr. Irena Kaspar-Ott, research associate at the Chair of Regional Climate Change and Health and first author of the publication "Determination of the influence of weather and air constituents on aortic aneurysm ruptures".

To promote Planetary Health education in Germany, we conducted a survey to explore students' familiarity with basic Planetary Health concepts and their interest in integrating these concepts in the form of a university course. The results of the survey have now been published here:

This winter semester the new course "Planetary Health" of the Virtual University of Bavaria (VHB) starts. It can be taken at the University of Augsburg by medical students and in the Bachelor Geography (in German language).

In the program "Am Puls" Prof. Dr. Elke Hertig and Sally Jahn present the research at our professorship. Click here for the video (in german):