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.
The jury’s statement said that “Unverzagt’s work is characterized by an epistemological and methodological approach that is as innovative as it is courageous. It combines the highest scientific standards, an innovative, ethnographically situated and theoretically excellently informed approach with high relevance and practical relevance. With her work, Unverzagt also makes a theoretically highly original and empirically innovative contribution to current interdisciplinary and sometimes highly controversial debates on the role of scientific expertise in social transformation processes.”
Read more in two press releases: Studienstiftung // HU Berlin
Photo credits: Philipp Verpoort (portrait Krystin Unverzagt), Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
