Graduate Program Board

Postdoctoral Researcher Rossella Alba is a postdoctoral researcher working at the Hydrology and Society research group, Geography Institute. Her research examines socio-ecological inequalities through a focus on hydrosocial relations and the politics of infrastructure and (water) governance. She is interested in environmental justice, (urban) political ecology, socio-technical interactions and in the potentials offered by inter-…

Postdoctoral Researcher Fabio Brill is a postdoctoral researcher in the group “Applied Geoinformation Science” (Prof. Dr. Tobia Lakes) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, currently working on water-related climate change risks within the project CliWaC. In this context, he focusses on mismatches between various methods of risk quantification and stakeholder needs as well as stakeholder risk perception,…

Postdoctoral Researcher Desirée Hetzel is a postdoctoral researcher in the interdisciplinary project “Climate and Water under Change” (CliWaC). She is working with Prof. Dr. Jörg Niewöhner on human-water-interactions in Berlin-Brandenburg from an anthropological perspective. Her research involves ethnographic fieldwork, asking epistemological and ontological questions around climate change related water problems experienced by the public. As…

Postdoctoral Researcher Shuxin Luo is a postdoctoral researcher at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin & IGB Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries. She works on the CliWaC project with Prof. Dr. Doerthe Tetzlaff. Her research focus is on quantifying the effects of future climate change and land-use changes on water partitioning in the Berlin-Brandenburg region…

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).…

Postdoctoral Researcher Matteo Roggero is a postdoc at the Resource Economics Group, Albrecht-Daniel-Thaer-Institute, Faculty of Life Sciences, HU Berlin. Grounded in social sciences, his work addresses the institutional dimension of environmental governance, with a focus on water and climate change. Matteo applies the toolbox of qualitative social research and comparative analysis to understand the drivers…

Postdoctoral Researcher Márk Somogyvári is a postdoctoral researcher at the IRI THESys within the project “Climate and Water under Change” (CliWaC). Together with Prof. Dr. Tobias Krüger, he is developing a data-driven meta-model for the Berlin-Brandenburg region, which can be used to help water users and policymakers to cope with water-related effects of climate change…

Postdoctoral Researcher Thomas Vogelpohl is a postdoctoral researcher at the Agricultural and Food Policy Group at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He works in the “Climate and Water under Change” project (CliWaC) with Prof. Dr. Peter Feindt on the reflexivity and resilience of the water-climate governance nexus in the Berlin-Brandenburg region. Before joining CliWaC, Thomas earned his…

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,…

Postdoctoral Researcher Tomás Usón joined IRI THESys in October 2018 as a PhD researcher to work on practices of memory and anticipation amid climatic and seismic disasters. With his research he aims to understand how different actors remember and anticipate extreme events and the consequences that those diverse practices have in the creation of past…