Guest Researcher Prof. Dr. Tomás Ariztía is Professor of Sociology at Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago, Chile. His work lies at the intersection of science and technology studies (STS), economic sociology, and environmental sociology, with a focus on the cultural, social, and political dimensions of sustainable energy transitions in Chile and Latin America. He is Principal…
Student assistant Ramsin Lindner is 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…
Student Assistant Josephine Lang is a student assistant at the “Studium Oecologicum”, a project led by Professor Dagmar Haase, and a member of the student initiative “Sustainability Office” at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (HU). She is currently pursuing her Bachelor’s degree in English and Culture Studies at HU. She is particularly interested in literary and…
Guest Researcher Karl Dudman is an anthropologist and STS scholar from the UK, visiting IRI THESys for a year. His research explores moments of communication breakdown between institutions of climate governance (like the UNFCCC and IPCC) and publics in industrialised democracies, especially the US, UK, and Germany. His PhD, which he undertook at the University…
Student assistant Lilli Schlünz is a student assistant at the “Studium Oecologicum”, a project led by Professor Dagmar Haase. She is currently enrolled as a student at Humboldt University, pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in English studies and art history. Her studies primarily focus on questions of cultural politics, borders, and migration, as well as multilingualism…
Guest Researcher Kei Namba holds a PhD in Political Science and has previously worked with several research institutes, global organisations, and businesses in the fields of water, climate and energy. Prior to joining THESys, she was a postdoctoral researcher within the Einstein Research Unit: Climate and Water under Change (CliWaC). Currently, she is preparing publications…
Guest Researcher Laura Kemmer holds the Martius Chair Germany-Brazil for Sustainability and Humanities of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) at the University of São Paulo. She is an urban researcher working at the intersection of anthropology, geography, and feminist theory. Her research focuses on ecologies of healing and reparation in São Paulo’s center, especially…
Doctoral Researcher Friedrich Busch is a doctoral researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and the Geography Department of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His research applies Bayesian methods to crop phenology modelling, with a focus on the major crops grown in Germany. Central to his work are questions of uncertainty propagation and climate change…
Doctoral Researcher Hanna Pohlmann is a doctoral researcher at the faculty for organic agriculture at the University of Kassel. She is working in a third-party project “Bio-Klima-Gemüse” (organic climate vegetables) which is analysing the interdependencies of climate change, and vegetable production and consumption. Hanna holds a Master of Arts in Global Political Economy and Development…
Guest PhD Researcher Lea Marie Sasse is a PhD candidate in Social Sciences at the University of Stavanger and a guest researcher at IRI THESys, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Lea’s PhD project studies social and environmental justice implications of the transition to electric vehicles, considering the supply chains and multi-scalar connections of the electrification of automobility.…