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…
THESys Member Prof. Robert Arlinghaus was awarded this year’s Science Prize of the Stiferverband. Congratulations! Robert Arlinghaus, Professor for Integrative Fisheries Management at HU Berlin in joint professorship with the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), is being honoured for his work on the ecological, economic and social aspects of inland recreational fishing.…
The Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin is once again awarding scholarships from the Deutschlandstipendium programme to its students. Among them are 15 positions for the Humboldt-Scholarship (Themenklasse) Sustainability & Global Justice, which is based at IRI THESys. Interested students are invited to apply until 15 December 2024! Humboldt-Scholarship 2025/26: Food, Agriculture and Land Use in a Climate-Neutral…
They are among the 100 most important minds in Berlin Science 2024: Pauline Münch & Dörthe Tetzlaff, two colleagues from IRI THESys, were awarded this honor by the Tagesspiegel. Congratulations to them! At the start of the series, Berlin personalities were selected who want to research and preserve the foundations of life on earth. Just…
