Scientific Coordinator PROVIDE Inga Menke is the Scientific Coordinator of PROVIDE and leads the HU work on the SPARCCLE project. Additionally, she is a Senior Research Scholar in the Integrated Climate Impacts Research Group, part of the IIASA Energy, Climate, and Environment Program. Inga holds a Master’s degree in Disaster Management and Risk Governance from…
Guest Researcher Sylvia Schmidt joined IRI THESys under PROVIDE and SPARCCLE projects, working in stakeholder engagement to support interdisciplinary exchange between researchers and external, relevant groups (i.e. policymakers, subject matter experts, practitioners) for relevant project results. Sylvia performs policy analysis of trade-offs between adaptation and mitigation within SPARCCLE, while also supporting SPARCCLE’s co-development of EU…
Guest Researcher Nida Rehman is a Pakistani-born urban geographer and architect, and Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, where she serves as Track Chair for the PhD in Architecture program. As an interdisciplinary scholar and educator, Nida works at the intersection of urban political ecology, environmental humanities, and post/de-colonial studies, her work explores how discourses,…
Member Milena Bister is Substitute Professor of Environmental Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies at the Institute of European Ethnology (IfEE), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and head of the IfEE research group Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human Relations. Her research addresses knowledge and governance practices at the multiple intersections of health, urban living and climate…
Doctoral Researcher Gwendolyn Moiles is a doctoral candidate at IRI THESys and the Agricultural and Food Policy Group at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She holds a B.A. in Environmental Studies from Goucher College in Maryland, USA, and spent two semesters studying in Germany, first at Eberhardt-Karls-Universität Tübingen and then FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, before earning a M.Sc. in…
Postdoctoral Researcher Jack Hensley is a postdoctoral researcher with an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship at the Institute for European Ethnology. His research at IRI-THESys aims to understand the relationship between environmental policy and knowledge production on topics including geoengineering, volcanic climate effects, and nitrogen dioxide pollution in Berlin. Jack has a B.S. in Civil and…
THESys Member Heike Weber is a Professor of the History of Technology at the Technische Universität Berlin and a Teaching Faculty Member at the International Max Planck Research School in ‘Knowledge and Its Resources: Historical Reciprocities’. Research Interests Waste and recycling Maintenance and Repair History of the Verein Deutscher Ingenieure (VDI) e.V., 1970s-2020s
Member Marcel Robischon is a Professor of Agricultural Ecology and the Head of the Division of Agricultural Ecology at Humboldt-Universität. He is also the Academic Director of the Circle U Knowledge Hub on Climate and Director of the Berlin Institute of Cooperative Studies (BICS). His current teaching modules are ‘Agricultural Ecology’ (Bachelor), ‘Biodiversity: Assessment, Function…
Member Anne Enderwitz is Professor of English Literature at the Department of English and American Studies of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and she serves as Academic Chair at the Climate Hub of Circle U. Research Interests Early modern literature and culture Climate fiction and future Economics and literature Love and literature Modernism Gender studies Email:
THESys Member Heidi Kreibich is the head of Working group “Flood risk and climate adaptation“ at Section Hydrology, GFZ Potsdam. She is also private lecturer at the Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Research Interests Flood risk assessment Vulnerability analysis and loss modelling Risk management and climate adaptation Human-Water Feedbacks Network Projects AVOSS “Impact-based forecasting of…