In her KOSMOS-Lesung taking place on 22 May 2025, Dr. Bixia Chen demonstrates the deep relationship between biodiversity and culture in Okinawa. She highlights how Fengshui-based landscapes and sacred forests support environmental conservation. Biodiversity and Culture: Unraveling the Symbiosis between Nature and Human Heritage 22.05.2025, 18.00-19.30 HU Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, Senatssaal This KOSMOS-Lesung…
THESys Member Prof. Nadja Klein (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) received the COPSS Emerging Leader Award for her contributions to statistical sciences, spanning Bayesian deep learning, computational methods, and spatial statistics. The award honors her commitment to impactful research, mentorship, professional service, and ensuring methods and software are accessible to researchers and practitioners. Congratulations! About the…
Two THESys Researchers are part of the team of authors contributing to The Field Guide, which was published on 25 February 2025. This collaborative work provides researchers with a practical resource for conducting mixed-methods environmental research. Organized like a recipe book, this guide helps to prepare for fieldwork, introduces key methods, and showcases successful projects.…
On 7 February 2025, Aditya Korekallu Srinivasa successfully defended his PhD thesis and graduated with magna cum laude. In his PhD project, Aditya identified the key barriers, including economic and financial challenges, as well as institutional and governance issues, which calls for reframing solar-powered irrigation systems (SPIS) incentives and better coordination among implementing agencies. Also,…
Since 2015, the IRI THESys has been awarding prizes for outstanding bachelor’s and master’s theses in the field of human-environment research for HU students. On 30 January, the prize was awarded for the 10th time. The award winners are Marek Sierts, Ana Belén Palacios and Jonas Textor. Congratulations! Bicycles, speculative design and pig farming Marek…
The Berlin University Alliance (BUA) has announced the selection of eleven projects for the first funding phase of their #TD-Lab Funding Program. THESys researchers are engaged in three of them! What are TD-Labs? TD-Labs are Laboratories for Transdisciplinary Research, designed to increase the impact of ongoing research projects by involving social actors with their practical…
THESys researcher Krystin Unverzagt is awarded the Lieselotte Pongratz Doctoral Prize 2025 of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) for her outstanding work in the field of social sciences with her doctoral thesis Enactments of Knowledge and Social Order in Participatory Modelling: An Ethnographic Perspective on the Relationship between Science and Democracy.…
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…
Tim Moss has been awarded the Dyos Prize for Urban History by the CUP journal Urban History for his article “Navigating electricity dependencies in Cold War Berlin: an instructive history of urban infrastructure security”. The paper is free to access here. The prize gets one of the paper’s images on the front cover of the…
Marie Pratzer received the award for Best PhD Poster Presentation at the Global Land Program’s 5th Open Science Meeting, Pathways to Sustainable and Just Land Systems, held in Oaxaca, Mexico. Her poster showcased an innovative approach to mapping land systems, emphasizing the contested nature of land use and the overlapping claims to land that characterize…
