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.…
Doctoral Researcher Alex Häuser is a doctoral student at the Thaer Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, working in collaboration with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). His research is supervised by Prof. Hermann Lotze-Campen and Dr. Prajal Pradhan. With a strong interest in food systems, Alex is committed…
Doctoral Researcher Setenay Kizilkaya joined the IRI THESys in April 2025. She is currently working as a doctoral researcher at Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO). She aims at exploring how climate risks are perceived by rural communities and how these perceptions affect (im)mobility intentions from an intersectional perspective, focusing on the…
Doctoral Researcher Hadjer Smati is a doctoral researcher at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB). Her research integrates human dimensions, environmental psychology and fisheries management with social-ecological system dynamics, specifically examining how recreational anglers and local fishing communities contribute to environmental stewardship, with a particular focus on…
Doctoral Researcher Gwendolyn Moiles is a doctoral candidate at IRI THESys and the Agricultural and Food Policy Group at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She holds a B.A. in Environmental Studies from Goucher College in Maryland, USA, and spent two semesters studying in Germany, first at Eberhardt-Karls-Universität Tübingen and then FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, before earning a M.Sc. in…
Doctoral Researcher Katharina Bäumler is a doctoral researcher at the Agricultural and Food Policy Group of the Thaer-Institute at HU Berlin and with the Coordination Unit Climate, Soil, Biodiversity at Thünen Institute. She holds a M.A. in International Development from Sciences Po Paris that she completed with a master thesis on agroforestry governance in Ile-de-France.…
Doctoral Researcher Jamie Burton is a doctoral researcher at IRI THESys and the Conservation Biogeography Lab in the Geography department at HU. He holds an MSc in Wildlife Conservation Management from the University of Glasgow and a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Bristol. Before starting his PhD, he spent 3.5 years working as…
Doctoral Researcher Marvin Heine is an environmental sociologist and is deeply interested in the senses, their phenomenology, mediations, and politics. He is a doctoral researcher at the IRI THESys and is associated with the ERC ‘Wavematters’ project (PI: Ignacio Farías). His master’s thesis has been about city soundscapes and how these shape and are shaped…
Doctoral Researcher Denis Momanyi is pursuing doctoral studies at the Department of Agricultural Economics, Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institute and the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Additionally, he is an affiliate doctoral researcher at the Sustainable Land Use in Developing Countries (SusLAND) working/research group at the Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural…