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…
Doctoral Researcher Marie Pratzer is a doctoral researcher at IRI THESys, funded by the ERC project “SystemShift” at the Geography Institute of Humboldt University Berlin. After obtaining a B.Sc. in Geography and Political Science from the Ludwig-Maximilians University (LMU) Munich, she graduated in “Global Change Geography” (M.Sc.) from Humboldt-University. Accompanying her studies, she worked on…
Doctoral Researcher Miguel is a doctoral researcher at the Agricultural and Food Policy Group in the Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institute at Humboldt University, Berlin, funded by DAAD. He obtained an M.Sc. after successfully concluding the Integrated Natural Resource Management program at HU and has a background as an economist with a B.Sc. from La Molina National…
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…
Doctoral Researcher Mina Karamesouti is a doctoral researcher who joined the IRI-THESys and the Geography Department of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in 2022. Motivated by the UN 2030 Land Degradation Neutrality initiative, her research project focuses on the formal knowledge representation of the optimal land use and land management practices, from scientific and local-community perspective. With her…
Doctoral Researcher Itzell Torres integrates ethnographic research methods with theoretical perspectives from Anthropology, Human Geography, and Political Ecology. In the context of Mexico’s energy transition, her project investigates the power dynamics and (un) sustainable development narratives surrounding solar energy development, as well as the social, ecological, and economic changes it engenders in its deployment locales.…
Doctoral Researcher Marie Hemmen is a doctoral researcher at IRI THESys and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), funded by the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU). Her research focuses on the impacts of high temperatures on global agricultural production. During her PhD, she develops a method for enhanced heat stress representation in process-based crop…
Doctoral Researcher Laura Betancur Alarcón joined IRI THESys in August 2021 as a PhD Researcher in the ‘Water for Whom’ project. She is researching everyday water use practices and adaptation strategies in communities affected by hydro dams through a multi-sited ethnographic study in Colombia. Laura holds a master’s degree in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science…