Stories

THESys Research Portraits are a growing collection of stories which bring to life not only international and interdisciplinary research projects, but the scientists behind them. Scroll through the different portraits to get a snapshot of the motivation and goals of THESys researchers. And who knows, maybe you’ll be next?

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    Possible Futures

    Hermann Lotze-Campen models agricultural-scenarios

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    Advocate of the vulnerable

    Carl-Friedrich Schleussner gives island states a voice on the topic of climate change

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    Observer of Nature

    Christoph Schneider discovers nature in the city and on ice

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    Mining Story I

    A question of trust. Mining conflicts in Kyrgyzstan

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    Mining Story II

    Copper mining in Chile. The dream of young indigenous people?

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    Mining Story III

    Small-scale gold mining in Tanzania

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    Geography from Space

    Patrick Hostert makes satellite images talk

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    Border crosser

    Jonas Nielsen studies what climate change means for people in Burkina Faso

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    Applied Philosophy

    Gabriel Wollner studies questions of economic and environmental justice

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    The Modeller

    Tobias Krüger wants collaboration between science and society on water

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    System Thinker

    For Wolfgang Lucht, the dignity of the human being is not possible without the dignity of nature

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    Interface in Person

    Jörg Niewöhner brings disciplines together

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    The Power of Fire

    Iago Otero Armengol studies how societies adapt and change when fires burn.

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