Associated Member Sandra Jasper is Professor of Geography and holds the Chair in Cultural Geography and Society-Environment Research at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). Between 2020 and 2024, she was a Junior Professor for Geography of Gender in Human-Environment-Systems at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She holds a PhD from University College London (2015) and joined the Geography Department at HU in…
Member Ignacio Farías is professor of urban anthropology at the Institute of European Ethnology and board member of the Georg-Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies of the HU Berlin. Previously he was assistant professor at the Munich Center for Technology in Society at TU Munich (2015-18) and senior researcher at WZB Social Science Research Center Berlin…
Doctoral Researcher E. Grace Leonnig graduated from University College London (UCL) with a Master of Science in Anthropology, Environment, and Development. Prior, she obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Anthropology from Fairfield University, USA. Currently, Grace is in pursuit of her PhD from the Department of Geography at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Until 2023,…
Doctoral Researcher Julia Behringer is a doctoral researcher at the Department of Agriculture and Food Policy in the Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institute at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin funded by DAAD. Her main research interests are citizen participation in public and private food governance, global democracy, sustainable agricultural transitions, political discourse, and e-government. Julia has a background as…
Project Staff HEBEDI Stephanie Ligan started working for IRI THESys in December 2020 in the Research Group Multifunctional Landscapes led by Dr Ina Säumel. Stephanie studied French and German Philology at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and East European History at State University Saint Petersburg and Freie Universität Berlin. Originally trained as a commercial assistant, she has been…
Doctoral Researcher Jorge Vega is a doctoral researcher at the IRI THESys working on the coupling between environmental conflicts, the extractivist logic of the Anthropocene, and the coloniality of power in late capitalism. His background is related to political philosophy and biology, with an MSc degree in Biological Sciences from the National Autonomous University of…
Doctoral Researcher Anna Heitger is part of IRI THESys and the graduate program since autumn 2019. Within the BMBF-funded consortium Food4Future, her current project is an ethnographic research of future eating practices. Anna graduated in Cultural and Social Anthropology (BA and MA) at the University of Vienna with a focus on practice theory and theories…
Doctoral Researcher Clemens Jänicke is a doctoral researcher IRI THESys and funded by the FORLand project at the Leibnitz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO). His research focuses on the relationship between land ownership structures and land use intensity. In his work he will quantitatively assess the ownership concentration of different ownership groups…
Doctoral Researcher María José Vásquez is a doctoral researcher in climate change adaptation. Her research highlights that even though climate adaptation projects are taking place all around the world, it does not necessarily translate into enhanced adaptative capacity, resilience or reduced vulnerability. The doctoral research intends to identify how climate change adaptation progresses in Latin America…
Guest Researcher Beril Ocaklı is a research associate at the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS). As a critical geographer and institutional economist, she follows discourses and practices of modernity, governance and development through extractive infrastructure projects, above and below ground, along corridors and roads, in Central Asia and the South Caucasus. She…