Following the General Assembly on 18 October 2024, the members of IRI THESys elected Milena Bister (Institute of European Ethnology) as the new Deputy Director of IRI THESys. Milena took up her new post on 1st of January 2025 and now forms a team together with Institute Director Tobias Krüger (Department of Geography).

A big thank you goes to Sandra Jasper who served as Deputy Director for the last 1,5 years. Sandra will be leaving HU Berlin, and we wish her all the best for her new position at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.

An overview of all members of the IRI THESys board can be found here: structure of IRI THESys