Student Assistant Wanted- Project: Looking Across Worlds for Environmental Justice
40 hours/month; duration 24 months; application deadline: 31st March 2026
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Early Online Publication from Edible Cities Network Project
Early online version of a new paper in npj Urban Sustainability, which explores how co-creating Edible Cities can either accelerate- or block- urban sustainability transitions.
Student Assistant Wanted- Themenklassen
40 hours/month; start: 1 April 2026, end: 31 March 2027; application deadline: 25th March 2026
Paper on Transformational Leadership
In their new paper participants of the Postdoc Academy for Transformational Leadership offer a fresh perspective on leadership in transformative and transdisciplinary research
Fluid Interdisciplinarities: A Three-Day Festival on Water
Artists, academics, and practitioners explore water-related projects and perspectives
Public Event: KOSMOS-Lesung by Prof. a.D. Dr. Ulrich Zeller
Lecture by Prof. a.D. Dr. Ulrich Zeller on the biodiversity of grasslands in Central Europe and southern Africa
Infrastructure history as a compass for the city of the future
Tim Moss answers questions from InfraLab Berlin on practical lessons from the DFG project “Past-Proofing Infrastructure Futures”.
Successful PhD: Congratulations to Anja Klein
Sketch by Maxime Le Calvé Anja Klein successfully defended her PhD thesis, Doing difference, materiality and complexity with simulation models: An ethnography of modeling social-ecological relations in interdisciplinary sustainability research. The thesis explored the epistemological, ontological, and ethical dimensions of modelling in interdisciplinary sustainability research. Anja employed the metaphor of “patchwork” to simultaneously highlight their…
Successful PhD: Congratulations to Hyunjin Park
Photo credits: Andrés Vargas. Hyunjin Park successfully defended her PhD thesis, Reorganization of Bio-Based Innovations Towards Inclusion: Insights Into Responses, Constraints, and Governance Challenges. Her work was carried out at the Thaer-Institut für Agrar- und Gartenbauwissenschaften under the supervision of Philipp Grundmann, with Peter Feindt supporting her membership in IRI THESys. The defense took place…
Public Event: KOSMOS-Lesung by Prof. Dr. Corine Pelluchon
Paradoxically, the current climatic, political and geopolitical situation, which confronts us with instability and forces us to question many certainties, offers the right moment to speak of hope. This is the argument put forward by philosopher Corine Pelluchon in her Kosmos lecture. Hope in the Context of Climate Change and the Global Crisis 23.10.2025, 18.00-19.30…