In March 2022, Dr. Britta Jänicke will take over the management of the Department of Environmental Meteorology at the Institute of Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning in the Faculty of ASL as a qualifying professor. The newly founded Department of Environmental Meteorology addresses both basic and applied research in urban climatology and environmental meteorology. Britta Jänicke studied Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning (BSc.) and Urban Ecology (MSc.) at the Technical University of Berlin. This was followed by a doctorate, also at the TU Berlin, with a focus on urban climate and heat stress. In South Korea, she worked as a postdoc at the National Institute of Meteorological Sciences and studied the urban climate of the megacity Seoul. Through her work as Head of the Department of Climate Protection and Strategic Environmental Planning at the City of Braunschweig, she brings not only scientific but also practical experience to her research at the University of Kassel.