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…
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…
Assistant to the Management Evangelia Koutsiouki is assisting the Management of IRI THESys and contributing to the general organisation and administration of IRI THESys office. She has a legal training and professional background with a Bachelor degree in Law from the University of Thessaloniki, Greece and holds a MSc in Banking and Financial law from…
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…
Project Staff ecoFABULAnds Klara Muranyi has recently joined the EdiCitNet project for the final project phase and will mainly support the project coordinating the MOOC Deliverable. Klara has a BA in Business Communication from the Metropolitan University and an MA in Art and Design Management from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, both in…
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…
Guest Researcher Samir Harb’s project focuses on the political ecology of cement production and its socio-ecological networks. By studying the multi-scalar relationships associated with cement production, he attempts to investigate How cement becomes a key agent in constituting new poltical and geographic imaginaries. His research project explores the environmental impact of cement production, with a…
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…