Doctoral Researcher Mina Karamesouti is a doctoral researcher who joined the IRI-THESys and the Geography Department of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in 2022. Motivated by the UN 2030 Land Degradation Neutrality initiative, her research project focuses on the formal knowledge representation of the optimal land use and land management practices, from scientific and local-community perspective. With her…
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…
Alumni (Guest Researcher) Caroline Salomão is a doctoral researcher working on Water Resources at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. From May to October 2022, she is undertaking a research stay at IRI THESys. At IRI THESys, she is involved in the “Water Security for Whom” project, which investigates in/equalities in water security across the water-energy-food…
Alumnus (Guest Researcher) Guillermo Germán Joosten is a PhD student at Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina). From April to June 2022, he is visiting the IRI THESys as one of the recipients of the 2021 Green Talents Award, hosted by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The overarching theme of his doctoral research…
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…
Doctoral Researcher As a doctoral candidate at IRI THESys, Aditya will be working on a research project examining the adoption of Solar Powered Irrigation Systems in India from systems perspective. The study is aimed at deciphering the dynamics of technology adoption, from the lens of both innovation system involving different actors in the chain, as…
Alumna (Guest Researcher) Olivia Adamson is visiting the IRI THESys as one of the recipients of the 2021 Green Talents Award, hosted by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. During her stay, she will be inquiring into food systems from two different angles: the first one being the global context, exploring human-nature relationships,…
Doctoral Researcher Itzell Torres integrates ethnographic research methods with theoretical perspectives from Anthropology, Human Geography, and Political Ecology. In the context of Mexico’s energy transition, her project investigates the power dynamics and (un) sustainable development narratives surrounding solar energy development, as well as the social, ecological, and economic changes it engenders in its deployment locales.…