Alumnus (Guest Researcher) Santos D. Chicas’ project will use machine learning algorithms and social science methods to identify the land use practices, biophysical and socioeconomic factors that increase wildfire vulnerability in the Maya Mountain Massif (MMM) thus, providing information to build more resilience to climate change and in so doing improving wildfire management. The Maya…
Alumna (Student Assistant) Serafina Bischoff is a student assistant for the Multifunctional Landscapes Research Group within the RuralFutures project. She has a keen interest in the effects of climate change and human-environment interaction on biodiversity. Understanding functional relationships in ecosystems and the dynamics behind land use and land cover changes are very exciting to her…
Alumna (Student Assistant) Sophia Reitzug is currently working as a student assistant in the Rural Futures project in the research group Multifunctional Landscapes led by Dr. Ina Säumel. She is pursuing her bachelors degree in Geography at the Humboldt-University Berlin and plans to start her masters degree by Fall 2021. Research Interests Land Use/Cover Change…
Alumna (Doctoral Researcher) “Be part of a larger structure to support the effective impact and progress of projects that meet the challenges of a changing world.” Suhana Reddy Suhana Reddy is currently working as doctoral researcher at IRI THESys to manage and scienfically guide the EC-funded project EdiCitNet. Since 2016 Suhana has worked in the preparation…
Alumnus (Research Associate / Doctoral Researcher) “Institutions that truly work interdisciplinary are still a novelty. Of course, it’s comfortable to collaborate in small groups and within own disciplinary boundaries. However, if long-term solutions have to be established it needs several disciplines, above all different approaches and contrasting views. Moreover, if interdisciplinarity expands to transdisciplinarity and…
Alumna (Project Staff RuralFutures) Vera Krause is working as project staff at the RuralFutures project in the research group “Multifunctional Landscapes” at IRI THESys led by Dr. Ina Säumel. In October 2022, she finished her Master’s degree in Global Change Geography at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She has previously finished her degree in Environmental Sciences in 2018…
Alumna (Student Assistant) Veronika Pinzger (aka Vero) is working as a student assistant at IRI THESys. Since January 2018 she is a volunteer member of the student-driven Sustainability Office (Nachhaltigkeitsbüro) and since March 2021, she officially works for and supports it by coordinating and implementing the students certificate Studium Oecologicum. The Studium Oecologicum is a…
Alumnus (former Member) Wolfgang Lucht would have almost studied German philology or theology; however he eventually decided to study Physics at the Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel where he also received his PhD in 1993. Later he was postdoc and assistant professor at the Boston University and since 1999 he works at the Potsdam Institute for…
Alumna (Student Assistant) Xiaoji Song 宋晓霁 is currently working as a student assistant for EdiCitNet Team at IRI THESys. Xiaoji started the M.A. in Global Communication: Politics and Society at University of Erfurt in 2020. Previously, Xiaoji obtained B.A. in Gender and Diversity Studies with a bachelor thesis topic connecting urban sociology and migration studies. …
Alumna (Guest Researcher) Olivia Adamson is visiting the IRI THESys as one of the recipients of the 2021 Green Talents Award, hosted by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. During her stay, she will be inquiring into food systems from two different angles: the first one being the global context, exploring human-nature relationships,…