Doctoral Researcher Setenay Kizilkaya joined the IRI THESys in April 2025. She is currently working as a doctoral researcher at Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO). She aims at exploring how climate risks are perceived by rural communities and how these perceptions affect (im)mobility intentions from an intersectional perspective, focusing on the…
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Doctoral Researcher Hadjer Smati is a doctoral researcher at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB). Her research integrates human dimensions, environmental psychology and fisheries management with social-ecological system dynamics, specifically examining how recreational anglers and local fishing communities contribute to environmental stewardship, with a particular focus on…
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Scientific Coordinator PROVIDE Inga Menke is the Scientific Coordinator of PROVIDE and leads the HU work on the SPARCCLE project. Additionally, she is a Senior Research Scholar in the Integrated Climate Impacts Research Group, part of the IIASA Energy, Climate, and Environment Program. Inga holds a Master’s degree in Disaster Management and Risk Governance from…
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Guest Researcher Sylvia Schmidt joined IRI THESys under PROVIDE and SPARCCLE projects, working in stakeholder engagement to support interdisciplinary exchange between researchers and external, relevant groups (i.e. policymakers, subject matter experts, practitioners) for relevant project results. Sylvia performs policy analysis of trade-offs between adaptation and mitigation within SPARCCLE, while also supporting SPARCCLE’s co-development of EU…
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Guest Researcher Nida Rehman is a Pakistani-born urban geographer and architect, and Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, where she serves as Track Chair for the PhD in Architecture program. As an interdisciplinary scholar and educator, Nida works at the intersection of urban political ecology, environmental humanities, and post/de-colonial studies, her work explores how discourses,…
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Member Milena Bister is Substitute Professor of Environmental Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies at the Institute of European Ethnology (IfEE), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and head of the IfEE research group Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human Relations. Her research addresses knowledge and governance practices at the multiple intersections of health, urban living and climate…
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Doctoral Researcher Gwendolyn Moiles is a doctoral candidate at IRI THESys and the Agricultural and Food Policy Group at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She holds a B.A. in Environmental Studies from Goucher College in Maryland, USA, and spent two semesters studying in Germany, first at Eberhardt-Karls-Universität Tübingen and then FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, before earning a M.Sc. in…
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Guest Researcher Anna Clot-Garrell holds a PhD in Sociology and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for the Study of Culture, Politics & Society (CECUPS), Department of Sociology, University of Barcelona. Her current research focuses on socio-ecological transformations, integrating social theory with grounded qualitative methodologies. Over the past five years, Anna has led…
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Postdoctoral Researcher Jack Hensley is a postdoctoral researcher with an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship at the Institute for European Ethnology. His research at IRI-THESys aims to understand the relationship between environmental policy and knowledge production on topics including geoengineering, volcanic climate effects, and nitrogen dioxide pollution in Berlin. Jack has a B.S. in Civil and…
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Student Assistant Hanna is studying a Master’s Program “Integrated Natural Resource Management” at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, focusing on the interrelation between social sciences, such as economics and public policy and natural sciences, such as soil and water protection, as well as the management of natural resources. Hanna’s interests are usable past methodology and its further…
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