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…
Postdoctoral Researcher Desirée Hetzel is a postdoctoral researcher in the interdisciplinary project “Climate and Water under Change” (CliWaC). She is working with Prof. Dr. Jörg Niewöhner on human-water-interactions in Berlin-Brandenburg from an anthropological perspective. Her research involves ethnographic fieldwork, asking epistemological and ontological questions around climate change related water problems experienced by the public. As…
Postdoctoral Researcher Thomas Vogelpohl is a postdoctoral researcher at the Agricultural and Food Policy Group at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He works in the “Climate and Water under Change” project (CliWaC) with Prof. Dr. Peter Feindt on the reflexivity and resilience of the water-climate governance nexus in the Berlin-Brandenburg region. Before joining CliWaC, Thomas earned his…
Postdoctoral Researcher Fabio Brill is a postdoctoral researcher in the group “Applied Geoinformation Science” (Prof. Dr. Tobia Lakes) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, currently working on water-related climate change risks within the project CliWaC. In this context, he focusses on mismatches between various methods of risk quantification and stakeholder needs as well as stakeholder risk perception,…
Postdoctoral Researcher Matteo Roggero is a postdoc at the Resource Economics Group, Albrecht-Daniel-Thaer-Institute, Faculty of Life Sciences, HU Berlin. Grounded in social sciences, his work addresses the institutional dimension of environmental governance, with a focus on water and climate change. Matteo applies the toolbox of qualitative social research and comparative analysis to understand the drivers…
Postdoctoral Researcher Shuxin Luo is a postdoctoral researcher at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin & IGB Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries. She works on the CliWaC project with Prof. Dr. Doerthe Tetzlaff. Her research focus is on quantifying the effects of future climate change and land-use changes on water partitioning in the Berlin-Brandenburg region…
Postdoctoral Researcher Huihui Zhang is a postdoctoral researcher in the Climate and Water under Change (CliWaC) project working together with Prof. Dr. Tobias Sauter. Her research focusses on the application of machine (deep) learning on problems related to drought and hydrometeorology, and the construction of drought forecast models integrating multi-source datasets at Brandenburg. From 2018-2019,…
Postdoctoral Researcher Márk Somogyvári is a postdoctoral researcher at the IRI THESys within the project “Climate and Water under Change” (CliWaC). Together with Prof. Dr. Tobias Krüger, he is developing a data-driven meta-model for the Berlin-Brandenburg region, which can be used to help water users and policymakers to cope with water-related effects of climate change…
Researcher Rossella Alba is a postdoctoral researcher at the Geography Department and at IRI THESys. She researches socio-ecological inequalities taking governance and infrastructure as analytical entry points. She is particularly intrigued by watery spaces including rivers, urban water supply systems, dams and, more recently, coastal and marine waters. In her work, she brings together theories…