Division 4 - Natural and Built Environment
KIT Division 4 'Natural and Built Environment' generates, teaches and applies knowledge about the changing Earth. This includes natural processes and developments as well as man-made changes and their impacts. To achieve this, research, teaching and innovation are bundled in strategic fields joining over 30 Institutes from architecture, civil engineering, geo- and environmental sciences, as well as meteorology and climate sciences. The scientists of Division 4 explore, develop and teach local, regional and global solutions for a sustainable future. Teaching and acadamic affairs of Division 4 are organized in the KIT departments of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Geo- and Environmental Sciences, while the mission-based large-scale research tasks are managed in frame of the Helmholtz program "Changing Earth-Sustaining our Future".
Science and knowledge for society and the environment
Erste von vier neuartigen Tandem-Professuren, die Geistes- und Technikwissenschaften verbinden, startet mit Reallabor am KIT.
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Successful balance after 10 years of research: IAGOS has become the pillar of the global atmospheric observation system.
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Julian Quinting of KIT receives ERC Starting Grant – ASPIRE project increases reliability of weather forecasts, and reduces computing costs and energy consumption.
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Geoenergy: Low-temperature aquifer storage enables climate-driendly heating and cooling - KIT study shows enormous potential for Germany.
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KIT performs well in the U.S. News University Ranking 2022-2023 - seven top positions nationally.
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KIT researchers and partners assume that much more plastic is transported in flowing waters than estimated so far - new approaches to modeling.
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With the help of a monitoring system, sources and sinks of greenhouse gases in Germany are to be better recorded and monitored in future.
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A KIT Team Has Analyzed the Extraction of Lithium from Thermal Water Resources in Germany – Feasible Extraction Volumes and Time Horizon Limit the Potential.
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Contributions to sustainable urban development
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Sustainable concepts for the use and protection of water resources
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KIT - Member of the Consortium Schneefernerhaus
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Interdisciplinary research at KIT on disasters, risks and security
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For an Environment Worth Living in
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KIT works for the sustainability of our resources - in research, teaching and innovation
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