In her inaugural lecture, the cultural anthropologist Gretchen Bakke gives an overview about the history of the fossil fueled electricity system and highlights its relationship to the refrigerator. Refrigerator as Linchpin: A Brief History of the Fossil Fueled Electricity System 30 June 2023, 13.15-14.45 Hybrid: IRI THESys, Rudower Chaussee 12B, 12489 Berlin, room 3.25 or…
In 2023, the IRI THESys will celebrate its 10th anniversary. Behind us are 10 special years of inter- and transdisciplinary research on transformations of human-environment systems. This meant (and still means!) running research projects, publishing books, papers, and reports, holding scientific and public events, and, last but not least, promoting young researchers who are about to…
During their KOSMOS-Lesung on 15 June 2023, a group of THESys researchers will share what they observed last winter: multiple crises and what this means for our societies and for climate protection across the globe. What we promise: This will be more than a lecture. It will be a happening! Climate & Cohesion. Notes after…
We are looking for two student assistants who take responsibility for the lecture series “The Green Thread” initiated by the Sustainability Office, which is run by HU students (start: 1 October 2023, end: 30 September 2025). Tasks Collaborate within the context of the “Studium Oecologicium” (Head: Prof. Dr. Sandra Jasper) Preparation of and participation in…
IRI THESys is looking for an Assistant to the Management (m/f/d) with 77% of regular working hours (E 9a TV-L HU, limited until 31 May 2025). Application deadline: June 08, 2023. Responsibilities Support the management of IRI THESys Contributing to the general organisation and administration of the IRI THESys office and the junior research groups Handling…
During its General Assembly on 21 April 2023, the members of IRI THESys elected a new directorate and a new member of the IRI Board. Tobias Krüger, former deputy director, has been elected as new director. He is joined by Sandra Jasper, who serves as new deputy of IRI THESys. In addition, Gretchen Bakke has…
Christoph Schneider, Vice President for Research at Humboldt-Universität, congratulates the IRI THESys on its tenth anniversary. The geographer and physicist, who is specialized in glaciology and urban climatology, is a THESys member hilmself. If you did not exist, we would urgently have to invent you! “IRI THESys’ special voice and diversity of voices in the…
The project Climate and Water under Change is looking for a student assistant with expertise in qualitative methods. The job advertisement is available for download here.
In March, the research team of the Water security for Whom? project spent two weeks in Colombia for the first in-person project workshop. A press release about their research has now been published. Who loses, who wins? The pros and cons of mega-dams “Colombian mega-dams are creating a new hydro-social reality,” says Prof. Tobias Krüger,…
THESys Member Robert Arlinghaus (IGB & HU Berlin) and his colleagues have ecologically enhanced 20 lakes in Lower Saxony. The transdisciplinary study on their large-scale experiment was published in the journal Science. Berlin researchers argue for ecosystem-based management The loss of biodiversity in inland waters is a cause for concern. Many conservation concepts aim to…
