Doctoral Researcher As a doctoral candidate at IRI THESys, Aditya will be working on a research project examining the adoption of Solar Powered Irrigation Systems in India from systems perspective. The study is aimed at deciphering the dynamics of technology adoption, from the lens of both innovation system involving different actors in the chain, as…
Postdoctoral Researcher Akpona Okujeni is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Earth Observation Lab, Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He obtained his doctoral and diplom (MSc equivalent) degrees in Physical Geography from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He is affiliated with the IRI THESys through his scientific contributions to the “Climate and Water under Change” project (CliWaC).…
Doctoral Researcher Ana Buchadas is pursuing a PhD in the Departments of Geography Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, with co-supervisor in Université catholique de Louvain. In her PhD, she will address deforestation frontiers in tropical dry forests, understanding deforestation and advancing agricultural frontiers, their impacts on biodiversity, ecosystem services and local livelihoods. Ana has a bachelor’s degree…
Doctoral Researcher Anja Klein is a doctoral researcher at IRI THESys and a research associate at the Institute of European Ethnology. At the latter, she received her M.A. with a focus on Science and Technology Studies and began researching models and simulations of human-environment relations as a knowledge practice which then developed into her PhD-project.…
Doctoral Researcher Anna Heitger is part of IRI THESys and the graduate program since autumn 2019. Within the BMBF-funded consortium Food4Future, her current project is an ethnographic research of future eating practices. Anna graduated in Cultural and Social Anthropology (BA and MA) at the University of Vienna with a focus on practice theory and theories…
Student Assistant Anna Hinderer is a student assistant at the “Studium Oecologicum”, a project led by Professor Sandra Jasper, and a member of the student initiative “Sustainability Office” at Humboldt University. She is currently enrolled as a student at Humboldt University, pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences. Her studies primarily focus on the relationship…
Science Communication Anne Dombrowski is Science Communicator at IRI THESys. She studied European Ethnology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Museum & Exhibition at the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany. Afterwards, she worked in a maritime museum and wrote as free journalist. Since September 2013, Anne is responsible for science communication at IRI THESys,…
Member Anne Enderwitz is Professor of English Literature at the Department of English and American Studies of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and she serves as Academic Chair at the Climate Hub of Circle U. Research Interests Early modern literature and culture Climate fiction and future Economics and literature Love and literature Modernism Gender studies Email:
Managing Director Axel Klie is Managing Director of IRI THESys. He studied philosophy, sociology and sports sciences at the University Bielefeld, the Eberhardt-Karls-University Tübingen and the Free University Berlin. For his doctoral studies in philosophy he joined the interdisciplinary Research Training Group „Genesis, Structures and Impacts of Science and Technology“ at the University Bielefeld and…
Guest Researcher Beril Ocaklı is a research associate at the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS). As a critical geographer and institutional economist, she follows discourses and practices of modernity, governance and development through extractive infrastructure projects, above and below ground, along corridors and roads, in Central Asia and the South Caucasus. She…