Alumna (Guest Researcher) Monika Mondal is an award winning independent environmental journalist from India. Her work focuses on people, progress and the planet. As a German Chancellor Fellow 2022-2023, she will work with the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin — navigating river issues during changing climate. Research Interests Climate Change Environmental Degradation Ecosystem Management Impact of Science…
Alumni (Student Assistant) Pascal Kraft studies Geography at the Humboldt-Universität, has been active in the Sustainability Office HU since the winter semester 2018, is a co-founder of Students For Future HU and has been co-deputy for Ecology and Environmental Protection at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since June 2022. In addition to his studies, Pascal Kraft has…
Alumna (Student Assistant) Xiaoji Song 宋晓霁 is currently working as a student assistant for EdiCitNet Team at IRI THESys. Xiaoji started the M.A. in Global Communication: Politics and Society at University of Erfurt in 2020. Previously, Xiaoji obtained B.A. in Gender and Diversity Studies with a bachelor thesis topic connecting urban sociology and migration studies. …
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…
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…
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…
Board Member Dagmar Mithöfer is Professor for Agrifood Chain Management at the Thaer Institute at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her research interests include topics in agrifood chain development and management; sustainability standards; sustainability and business management; impact assessments; rural development. She is interested in the organisation of supply chains and linkages between actors in local, regional…
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,…
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…
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…