Markus Quante

Teaching Activities

In the centre of the teaching activities are more than 20 years of uninterrupted lectures on Environmental Meteorology and Urban and Vegetation Climate at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg/Germany.

Lectures at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg


  • 2014 to present "Responsibility in Science", Leuphana Semester
  • 2013 “Urban Climate and Climate Change”, Global Classroom – University of Arizona and University of Lüneburg
  • 2013 “Climate Change – Science, Models and Scientists” and “Climate Engineering” in “Science Takes Responsibility”, Leuphana Semester
  • 2012 to present “Sustainability and Journalism”, Certificate Studies
  • 2010 to present “Transport of matter in the Atmsosphere”, BSc. Env. Sciences
  • 2008 to present “Global Change Modelling”, MSc. Sustainability Science
  • 2008 to present “Climate Change and Ecology”, MSc. Sustainability Science
  • 2008 to 2009 “Climatology”, Leuphana University Lüneburg/Suderburg (MSc Course Trop. Water Management)
  • 1993 to 1999 “The Atmosphere”, University of Applied Science, Lower Saxony, Suderburg (now Leuphana University Lüneburg)
  • 1991 to 2008 “Urban Meteorology and Vegetation Climate”
  • 1990 to 2008 “Environmental Meteorology”

National and international courses


  • 2004 to present European Research Course on Atmospheres (ERCA), Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble/France (lecturer and advisory committee)
  • 2007 5th GKSS School on Environmental Research, “Persistent Pollution – Past, Present, Future”, Göhrde/Germany (initiator and lecturer)
  • 2005 Autumn School on “Radar Meteorology”, University of Munich (LMU)/Germany
  • 2004 Postgraduate Summer Course “Coastal Environmental Surveying”, University of Kiel/Germany
  • 2002 Summer School on “Coastal Seas, System Analysis and Monitoring”, IOW, Warnemünde/Germany
  • 2002 Postgraduate Summer Course ”Coastal Environmental Surveying”, University of Kiel/Germany
  • 1998 Autumn School on “Radar Meteorology”, German Aerospace Center, Oberpfaffenhofen/Germany
  • 1995 NATO Advanced Science Institute „Remote Sensing of Processes Governing Energy and Water Cycles in the Climate System”, Plön/Germany