Associated Member Bettina König is Professor of Sustainability Management in the International Food Industry at Kassel University since 2023. She is a horticultural socio-economist by training, focussing on systemic innovation and transition studies in the broader field of sustainable land management and regional development. Between 2014 and 2019, she was a Research Group Leader „Innovative…
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Director Tobias Krüger is Director of IRI THESys and Professor of Hydrology and Society at Humboldt-Universität´s Geography Department. He studied Geoecology at the Technical University of Braunschweig and obtained his doctorate in Environmental Science from Lancaster University in 2009. From 2008 to 2013, he worked as Senior Research Associate, Associate Tutor and Knowledge Exchange Fellow…
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Member Jonas Ø. Nielsen is Professor in Integrative Geography at Humboldt-Universität´s Department of Geography. He studied social anthropology at Auckland University, New Zealand, and the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and obtained his doctorate in Human Geography in 2010 at University of Copenhagen with a dissertation entitled “Despite the Rain. Living and dealing with climate change…
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Managing Director Axel Klie is Managing Director of IRI THESys. He studied philosophy, sociology and sports sciences at the University Bielefeld, the Eberhardt-Karls-University Tübingen and the Free University Berlin. For his doctoral studies in philosophy he joined the interdisciplinary Research Training Group „Genesis, Structures and Impacts of Science and Technology“ at the University Bielefeld and…
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Alumna (Postdoctoral Researcher, Graduate Program Board Member) Theresa Frommen studied Geological Sciences with a focus on Hydrogeology at Freie Universität Berlin, RWTH Aachen University and University of Manchester. After her Masters, she was a research associate and doctoral student at the Hydrogeology Group, Institute of Geological Sciences, FU Berlin, doing research about participatory methods in…
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Alumna (Coordination Graduate Program) Kathrin Klementz was coordinator for the THESys Graduate Program from 2013-2023. She studied Geography, Business Administration and Political Science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, specializing in the field of Economic Geography. She started her career as an academic researcher in a research project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) at Humboldt-Universität.…
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Science Communication Anne Dombrowski is Science Communicator at IRI THESys. She studied European Ethnology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Museum & Exhibition at the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany. Afterwards, she worked in a maritime museum and wrote as free journalist. Since September 2013, Anne is responsible for science communication at IRI THESys,…
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Science Communication With a background in science communication, Pauline’s work is situated at the intersection of transdisciplinary research and knowledge exchange. She coordinates the Experimental Laboratory AnthropoScenes which connects art and science to open discussions with different audiences on the future of water in Berlin-Brandenburg. She is also part of the project Past-proofing Infrastructure Futures…
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Alumna (Administrative Management) Jeannette Latino takes care of the administrative management at IRI THESys together with Olof Krüger. Jeannette earned an MA from the Universität Greifswald where she majored in Slavic Studies, with minors in American Studies, Business Administration and German as a Foreign Language. During her studies, Jeannette worked for one year in St.…
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Alumnus (Administrative Management) Olof Krüger takes care of the administrative management at THESys together with Jeannette Latino. Originally trained as a bookseller, he started his career in science administration at Freie Universität Berlin, where he worked as secretary for the research training program of a collaborative research center. Olof started working at THESys in February,…
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