Student Assistant Fernanda de Castro Franca works as a student assistant for the IRI THESys administration and is currently pursuing a Master of Sciences degree in Global Change Geography at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her first contact with IRI THESys occurred while writing her bachelor’s thesis in Brazil when she quantified soil loss and erosion around…
Student Assistant Franziska Knierim obtained her bachelor’s degree in social- and cultural Anthropology and Political Science at FU Berlin and is currently doing her Masters in Ethnography at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Since 2018, she is part of the multilingual, multimedia Network Encounter, which focuses on the facilitation of transcultural learning through personal connections. Franziska now…
Board Member Gretchen Bakke became a member of IRI THESys in January 2018. Here she was a Guest Professor from 2018 to 2020 and is currently Senior Fellow at IASS Potsdam and Visiting Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, within the research theme Anthropocene Formations. Her training is as…
Doctoral Researcher Haoying Li is a doctoral researcher at IRI THESys since October 2019. She has finished her bachelor and master degree at Southwest University in China majoring in human geography. Since 2016, Haoying Li has focused on the land use and rural development issue, mainly on the rural human settlements and various stakeholders of…
Member Harald Grethe studied medicine at the University of Witten-Herdecke and agricultural sciences at the Georg-August-University Göttingen, where he graduated in 1996. He did his doctoral studies also at Göttingen and wrote his doctoral thesis on Effects of Including Agricultural Products in the Customs Union between Turkey and the EU (2004). After his habililation at…
THESys Member Heidi Kreibich is the head of Working group “Flood risk and climate adaptation“ at Section Hydrology, GFZ Potsdam. She is also private lecturer at the Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Research Interests Flood risk assessment Vulnerability analysis and loss modelling Risk management and climate adaptation Human-Water Feedbacks Community service President of the Natural…
Doctoral Researcher Heindriken Dahlmann is a doctoral researcher at the IRI THESys and the Geography Department of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her PhD project is funded by the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung. Heindriken’s research focuses on telecoupled water flows, especially in the form of virtual water embedded in agricultural products. Within her PhD project, she tries to disentangle…
Member Henning Nuissl is a professor for applied geography and town planning at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Before he joined HU in 2009, he worked with several other universities and research organisations, including the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig, Technische Universität Berlin, Potsdam University, European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), and the Leibniz Institute…
Member Hermann Lotze-Campen studied Agricultural Sciences and Agricultural Economics in Kiel (Germany), Reading (UK) and Minnesota (USA). He holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He is co-chair of Research Department Climate Resilience at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and a Professor of Sustainable Land Use and Climate Change…
Postdoctoral Researcher Huihui Zhang is a postdoctoral researcher in the Climate and Water under Change (CliWaC) project working together with Prof. Dr. Tobias Sauter. Her research focusses on the application of machine (deep) learning on problems related to drought and hydrometeorology, and the construction of drought forecast models integrating multi-source datasets at Brandenburg. From 2018-2019,…