Alumna (doctoral researcher)
Jelena Grosse-Bley was a doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Philosophy at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and and Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys) at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Jörg Niewöhner until 2026.
She holds a M.A. in Modern East Asian Studies from Georg-August Universität (Göttingen) and a M.Sc. in Environmental Management from The University of Hong Kong. She was a researcher/lecturer at the China Studies Institute at Freie Universität Berlin from 2018-2021. Before moving to Berlin, she spent a number of years studying and working in various locations across Greater China, including two years at Peking University (Beijing). She started pursuing her PhD at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in 2020.
Research Interests
- Environmental knowledges
- Climate change adaptation
- People’s Republic of China



