The Berlin University Alliance (BUA) has announced the selection of eleven projects for the first funding phase of their #TD-Lab Funding Program. THESys researchers are engaged in three of them! What are TD-Labs? TD-Labs are Laboratories for Transdisciplinary Research, designed to increase the impact of ongoing research projects by involving social actors with their practical…
THESys researcher Krystin Unverzagt is awarded the Lieselotte Pongratz Doctoral Prize 2025 of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) for her outstanding work in the field of social sciences with her doctoral thesis Enactments of Knowledge and Social Order in Participatory Modelling: An Ethnographic Perspective on the Relationship between Science and Democracy.…
Following the General Assembly on 18 October 2024, the members of IRI THESys elected Milena Bister (Institute of European Ethnology) as the new Deputy Director of IRI THESys. Milena took up her new post on 1st of January 2025 and now forms a team together with Institute Director Tobias Krüger (Department of Geography). A big…
Tim Moss has been awarded the Dyos Prize for Urban History by the CUP journal Urban History for his article “Navigating electricity dependencies in Cold War Berlin: an instructive history of urban infrastructure security”. The paper is free to access here. The prize gets one of the paper’s images on the front cover of the…
Marie Pratzer received the award for Best PhD Poster Presentation at the Global Land Program’s 5th Open Science Meeting, Pathways to Sustainable and Just Land Systems, held in Oaxaca, Mexico. Her poster showcased an innovative approach to mapping land systems, emphasizing the contested nature of land use and the overlapping claims to land that characterize…
THESys Member Prof. Robert Arlinghaus was awarded this year’s Science Prize of the Stiferverband. Congratulations! Robert Arlinghaus, Professor for Integrative Fisheries Management at HU Berlin in joint professorship with the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), is being honoured for his work on the ecological, economic and social aspects of inland recreational fishing.…
The Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin is once again awarding scholarships from the Deutschlandstipendium programme to its students. Among them are 15 positions for the Humboldt-Scholarship (Themenklasse) Sustainability & Global Justice, which is based at IRI THESys. Interested students are invited to apply until 15 December 2024! Humboldt-Scholarship 2025/26: Food, Agriculture and Land Use in a Climate-Neutral…
They are among the 100 most important minds in Berlin Science 2024: Pauline Münch & Dörthe Tetzlaff, two colleagues from IRI THESys, were awarded this honor by the Tagesspiegel. Congratulations to them! At the start of the series, Berlin personalities were selected who want to research and preserve the foundations of life on earth. Just…
In 2023, ZDF released a documentary highlighting the scientific work of THESys Member Tobias Sauter, Head of the Climate Lab at HU’s Geography Department. The documentary combines environmental issues in Patagonia and compelling storytelling. It has received international acclaim and has been awarded seven prizes: Best Environmental Film at the Terres Festival (Tortosa, Spain) Best…
A new paper from 30 scientists under the lead of THESys Member Prof. Carl-Friedrich Schleussner published in Nature analyses future scenarios in which we temporarily exceed 1.5°C and bring temperatures back down in the long run. It finds overshoot comes with irreversible consequences and rapid near-term emissions reductions are essential to reducing climate risks. The…
