Student Assistant Fernanda de Castro Franca works as a student assistant for the IRI THESys administration and is currently pursuing a Master of Sciences degree in Global Change Geography at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her first contact with IRI THESys occurred while writing her bachelor’s thesis in Brazil when she quantified soil loss and erosion around…
Alumna (Project Staff EdiCitNet) Klara Muranyi has recently joined the EdiCitNet project for the final project phase and will mainly support the project coordinating the MOOC Deliverable. Klara has a BA in Business Communication from the Metropolitan University and an MA in Art and Design Management from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, both…
Alumnus (Project Staff EdiCitNet & RuralFutures) Scientific Consultant / Data Scientist José Donoso joined the IRI THESys in May 2023 to provide IT support during the final phase of the EdiCitNet project, and to develop machine learning methods for the analysis and modelling of land use change within the Rural Futures project. After graduating as an Electrical…
Student Assistant Franziska Knierim obtained her bachelor’s degree in social- and cultural Anthropology and Political Science at FU Berlin and is currently doing her Masters in Ethnography at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Since 2018, she is part of the multilingual, multimedia Network Encounter, which focuses on the facilitation of transcultural learning through personal connections. Franziska now…
Guest Researcher Samir Harb’s project focuses on the political ecology of cement production and its socio-ecological networks. By studying the multi-scalar relationships associated with cement production, he attempts to investigate How cement becomes a key agent in constituting new poltical and geographic imaginaries. His research project explores the environmental impact of cement production, with a…
Doctoral Researcher Marvin Heine is an environmental sociologist and is deeply interested in the senses, their phenomenology, mediations, and politics. He is a doctoral researcher at the IRI THESys and is associated with the ERC ‘Wavematters’ project (PI: Ignacio Farías). His master’s thesis has been about city soundscapes and how these shape and are shaped…
Student Assistant Patricia Usée is part of the Einstein Research Unit “Climate and Water under Change” (CliWaC). She obtained a Bachelor’s degree in European Ethnology and Linguistics and is currently studying Ethnography at Humboldt University. She is keen on inter- and transdisciplinary research. During her BA, Patricia gained valuable insights into human-environment research through the…
Doctoral Researcher Denis Momanyi is pursuing doctoral studies at the Department of Agricultural Economics, Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institute and the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Additionally, he is an affiliate doctoral researcher at the Sustainable Land Use in Developing Countries (SusLAND) working/research group at the Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural…
Student Assistant Lisa Rihm is part of the Einstein Research Unit “Climate and Water under Change” (CliWaC). She has been enrolled in the Master Programme “Integrated Natural Resource Management” (INRM) at Humboldt University of Berlin since 2021. Previously, Lisa obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Geoecology from Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. She is excited to work…
Doctoral Researcher Marie Pratzer is a doctoral researcher at IRI THESys, funded by the ERC project “SystemShift” at the Geography Institute of Humboldt University Berlin. After obtaining a B.Sc. in Geography and Political Science from the Ludwig-Maximilians University (LMU) Munich, she graduated in “Global Change Geography” (M.Sc.) from Humboldt-University. Accompanying her studies, she worked on…