Postdoctoral Researcher Isabel Díaz Reviriego is an interdisciplinary environmental scientist and Principal Investigator of the DFG-funded WEAVE project Plural Values of Urban Foragingscapes in Edible Cities at IRI THESys, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her current research examines how urban foraging practices produce plural values and reconfigure relationships between people, plants, food, and urban environments, with a…
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Guest Researcher Zeynep Özçam has recently joined the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys), as a postdoctoral researcher supported by the TUBITAK 2219 International Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Programme. The research project, “Connecting Agroecological Production to Urban Consumption through Alternative Food Networks: A Comparative Study from İzmir to Europe,” will benefit from the…
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Postdoctoral researcher Dr Claudia Coral is a postdoctoral researcher at the Agrifood Chain Management Group in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany. She holds a doctorate in agricultural sciences and a master’s degree in the management of natural resources. She previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Leibniz Centre…
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Guest Researcher Nandita Badami is an anthropologist interested in how dominant concepts of rationality and human agency are being reworked as a new generation turns to practices of divination—astrology, the Tarot, the I Ching—in a world marked by economic, environmental and political instability. At IRI THESys she will be working on a project titled “The…
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Doctoral Researcher Leo Töpperwein holds a Bachelor’s degree in Politics and Economics and Master’s degree in Integrated Natural Resource Management. His PhD research focus on the transformative potential of socio-technical systems through participatory co-design processes involving divers stakeholder groups, drawing on transition theory, co-design and policy learning, applied in the field of precision grassland farming.…
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, Postdoctoral Researcher Letícia Lima is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, under a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) fellowship funded by the European Union. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at “Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals” (ICTA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Spain (2022-2025). She holds a degree in Environmental Engineering,…
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Doctoral Researcher Christiane Hamann is a doctoral researcher at the Geography Department at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). Her academic background in Human Geography, completed with an MA in Urban Geography from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, shaped her interest in human-environment interactions and social science perspectives on climate change.…
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Guest Researcher Muhammad Imran is a geospatial scientist visiting IRI THESys for a year. His research interests center on understanding how climate extremes propagate through agro-ecosystems – from hazard drivers (precipitation deficits, heat stress, flood inundation) to vegetation responses (phenological shifts, biomass loss), and ultimately to impacts on production and livelihoods. His PhD research at…
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Student assistant Ramsin Lindner was working as the student coordinator for the Humboldt-Scholarships’ Themenklasse “Sustainability and Global Justice” at IRI THESys. Ramsin has a background in sustainability science, having completed a bachelor´s degree in Sustainable Management at TU Berlin. He is currently studying Geography and English at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin as part of his second…
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