If a green pivot is to happen, power grids must become “supergrids”. In a YouTube video by Bloomberg Quicktake, different experts explain what this means and what the challenges are. One of them is THESys member Gretchen Bakke, who takes us back to the early days of the electric grid.
In Berlin University Alliance’s series Wissen Aus Berlin, THESys director Jörg Niewöhner and ecologist Britta Tietjen (FU) discuss their work in the new Einstein Research Unit (ERU) Climate and Water under Change (CliWaC)—a transdisciplinary research initiative dedicated to the investigation of water-related risks of climate change in the Berlin-Brandenburg region.
For a special broadcast on the Long Night of the Sciences 2022, THESys member Robert Arlinghaus guided radioeins reporter Julia Vismann through his exhibition BAGGERSEE. The interactive exhibition aims to promote and preserve the biodiversity, recreational value, and fisheries benefits of these man-made ecosystems.
THESys doctoral researchers Liliana Mosquera, Sascha Cornejo Puschner, and Jorge Vega were part of a public walk tracing the silenced history of black scholars in Berlin. The event, which was attended by around 200 people, was featured in the rbb24 Abendschau.
