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Full Professor for the subject tourism research
Dagmar Lund-Durlacher is Full Professor Emerita at the Department of Tourism and Service Management at Modul University Vienna. She is connected to the University for Sustainable Development Eberswalde since 2004 when she was appointed as Professor for Tourism Economics in the Master Program for Sustainable Tourism Management (until 2007). She completed her doctoral studies at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. Her public speaking, writing and research focuses on Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility as a transformative force towards sustainable tourism development, as well as climate change, sustainable transportation and sustainable food issues in the tourism and hospitality industry. Dagmar is a member of several Scientific Associations and provides extensive services to the academic and industry communities. She regularly participates in international expert teams for quality assurance of international tourism and hospitality programs and is part of advisory and expert groups at national and international organizations. For more information on research projects and publications can be found on Prof. Lund-Durlacher's website.
From June 2020 onwards she joins the team of tourism researchers at ZENAT.
M.A. - Project coordinator and research associate
Frank Schories studied Marketing and Tourism Management at the University of Lincoln and the Harz University of Applied Sciences before completing a Master's degree in Sustainable Tourism Management at the Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development (HNEE) in 2022. Immediately afterwards, Frank began working at ZENAT, where he has been involved in various scientific projects ever since. Prior to this, particularly between 2005 and 2019, he worked for market-leading tourism companies in various sectors in Germany and abroad, managed a small 4-star hotel in Austria and worked for regional tourism associations in Germany.
The practical experience he gained during this time forms the basis for his current academic work, which focuses on tourism certification systems, corporate social responsibility (CSR), digitalization and sustainable mobility in tourism.
In addition to his work at ZENAT, he also works for the Institute for Tourism Research (ITF) at the Harz University of Applied Sciences and as a freelance tourism consultant.
Scientific Director and Professor for Sustainable Tourism
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Strasdas studied landscape planning with a focus on tourism in Hannover and Seattle. Since 1991 first research projects on sustainable tourism and many years of work as a tourism consultant in development cooperation. 2001 PhD at the TU Berlin on ecotourism in Mexico and Belize. In 2002 Wolfgang Strasdas was appointed professor at Eberswalde University of Applied Sciences, where he established the master's program in sustainable tourism management. His current work focuses on protected area management, tourism in developing countries, corporate social responsibility and certification in tourism, and climate change mitigation and adaptation. Wolfgang Strasdas was recently appointed to the steering committee of the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWK) for the development of the National Tourism Strategy. He is a member of the scientific advisory board of the sustainability initiative Futouris, the certification council of TourCert and on the steering committee of the industry dialogue of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) with the tourism industry. He is also on the juries for the Ecotrophea Sustainability Award of the German Travel Association (DRV) and for the Fahrtziel Natur Award of Deutsche Bahn and leading German environmental organizations..
HONORARY PROFESSOR OF CULTURE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Nicole Häusler has been working as a sustainable tourism consultant and trainer with a regional focus on Southeast Asia for over 20 years. She has been associated with the Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development since 2003. Her specialist areas are qualitative methods in tourism research, destination management, participative methods, culture and tourism, and tourism in development cooperation. Her doctoral thesis, Cultural Due Diligence in Hospitality Ventures, was published in 2017 by Springer.
Nicole Häusler lives in Berlin and Myanmar.
M.Sc. - Research Associate
Birte Kaddatz is academic assistant at the Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development (HNEE) since 2018. In addition to teaching and coordinating the master’s program Sustainable Tourism Management, she conducts scientific projects for the Center for Sustainable Tourism (ZENAT) at HNEE.
After training and working as an event manager in Berlin, she studied International Cultural and Business Studies at the University of Passau and the Ponitifica Universidad Católica del Ecuador, where she already specialized in her fields of interest: sustainable regional development, nature conservation and tourism.
After several years in Latin America, where she worked among others for the German Development Cooperation (GIZ) in tourism consulting in Ecuador, she studied Regional Development and Nature Conservation (M.Sc.) at the HNEE. She also worked as a consultant for tourism and regional development for the consulting company BTE and as a project manager in the field of nature conservation for the Deutsche Umwelthilfe e.V. (Environmental Action Germany).
Full Professor for Sustainable Destination Management
Martin Balas is a Professor of Sustainable Destination Management at the University for Sustainable Development Eberswalde and the Scientific Director of the sustainability consultancy reCET create.empower.transform.
Since 2011, Martin Balas has implemented a wide range of sustainability projects in research and consulting and has founded various companies and initiatives in the tourism sector. He earned his PhD at the Faculty of Sustainability Sciences at Leuphana University Lüneburg, focusing on sustainability measurement in tourism.
He is actively involved as a board member of the European sustainability network ECOTRANS e.V., in the expert panel of UN Tourism, and in the German government's National Platform for the Future of Tourism. In recent years, he has supported numerous tourism destinations in their sustainability processes and established the German Excellence Initiative "Sustainable Travel Destinations," a network of Germany’s most sustainable tourism regions, which he led until October 2021.
Graduate Biologist, M.A. - Coordinator
Heike Dichkut Dichkut is a biologist and a graduate of the Master program Sustainable Tourism. In recent years she has participated in various third-party funded projects, events advanced training courses and publications on sustainable tourism at the HNE Eberswalde. Her interests are currently focusing on the areas of climate change adaptation, climate protection and biodiversity in tourism. In addition, in recent years she has specialized in the development of e-learning opportunities in adult education.
M.Sc. - Project coordinator and research associate
Franziska Rottig has been working at HNEE since 2021. In addition to teaching, supervising and reviewing project and master's theses in the Sustainable Tourism Management program, she conducts scientific projects for the Center for Sustainable Tourism (ZENAT) at HNEE.
Already during her Bachelor studies in Applied Leisure Science at the University of Applied Sciences Bremen and an Erasmus Mundus Master in "European Tourism Management", Franziska focused on Sustainable Tourism.
Since 2017, Franziska has been working in national and international tourism consulting. Her focus is on sustainable, climate-friendly destination development, capacity building and training as well as marketing.