On 07 December 2023, Tomás Usón successfully defended his PhD thesis “Remembering Future Disasters: Temporal Ecologies in the Peruvian Andes” at the Institute of European Ethnology at HU Berlin. He graduated with summa cum laude. The PhD thesis was supervised by Prof. Ignacio Farías and Prof. Sharon Macdonald (both HU Berlin) and further evaluated by…
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 Sustainability & Global Justice, which is based at IRI THESys. Interested students are invited to apply until 15 January 2024! Next Humboldt-Scholarship: Sustainability and Democracy Starting in April 2024, 15 Bachelor’s…
On 13 November 2023, Hannah Prawitz, former student assistant at IRI THESys, was awarded the Humboldt-Preis 2023 for her master thesis “Towards modeling the Anthropocene: Conception and analysis of planetary-scale social-ecological feedbacks”, which was supervised by Tobias Krüger (IRI THESys) and Jonathan Donges (PIK). The award honors outstanding academic work by students and junior researchers…
On 25 October 2023, Constanze Werner successfully defended her PhD thesis and graduated with magna cum laude. In her PhD project, Constanze Werner assessed the global biophysical potential and limitations of a negative emission technology that is currently underrepresented in these discussions: pyrogenic carbon capture and storage (PyCCS). We congratulate Constanze on the completion of…
The Water Security for Whom project (W4W) project co-organized a public event to highlight the role of riverine women in Colombia. At the beginning of September, Jully Mora, leader of the Sogamoso River Fishing Board and local partner of the research project, was invited to the 17th Medellín Book and Culture Festival, considered one of…
With their digital tour of Berlin’s infrastructure history, science communications expert Pauline Münch and historian Timothy Moss have won this year’s Conrad-Matschoß Prize in the category “popular science”. The prize was awarded on 28 September 2023 by the VDI (German Association of Engineers). The Conrad-Matschoß-Prize is given every other year for outstanding contributions to the…
On 09 November 2023, the philosopher Prof. Kirsten Meyer will give a KOSMOS-Lesung on the topic of intergenerational justice. She will explore the question of what responsibility we have towards future generations when it comes to climate change. Responsibility towards future generations in the context of climate change 09.11.2023, 19.00-20.30 Uhr HU Berlin, Unter den…
Since 2015, the IRI THESys has been awarding prizes for excellent Bachelor and Master theses in the field of human-environmental research. Now, all bachelor and master graduates of HU Berlin are again invited to apply for our THESys Award! Applications can be submitted during the application period from 15 September to 15 November 2023. Who…
In a new publication, THESys researchers Cristián Flores Fernández and Rossella Alba analyze how different legal interpretations and definitions of water shape the regulation, governance and assessment of the socioecological impacts of lithium mining in Chilean salt flats. Not easy to say: water or mineral resources? Chile is the second biggest producers and exporters of…
On 20 September 2023, Margreet Zwarteveen (IHE Delft & University of Amsterdam) and Tobias Krüger (HU Berlin) will talk about hydrological modelling, critical water research and interdisciplinary collaborations in a public evening conversation at the Grimm-Zentrum of HU Berlin. Is hydrological modelling political? 20 September 2023, 19.00-20.30 HU Berlin, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum, Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 3, 10117 Berlin, Auditorium…
