Postdoc Opportunity: Apply until 11th Feb – Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment

The Einstein Research Unit “Climate and Water under Change” (www.cliwac.de) has just started in Berlin funded by the Berlin University Alliance and the Einstein Foundation Berlin. We’re looking for a postdoc to conduct inter- and transdisciplinary ethnographic research on risk perception, adaptive practices and water futures in Berlin-Brandenburg as part of a large team covering everything from climate, hydrogeology and ecology to anthropology, law and planning. The ability to conduct ethnographic work in German is essential. (contract until 31.12.2024, salary at least 90% TV-L E13)

IRI THESys: www.iri-theys.org

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Jörg Niewöhner

is Professor for Urban Anthropology and Human-Enviroment Relations at the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He is also deputy director of the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys). Jörg is currently working on an ecological or relational anthropology in the fields of global environmental change and the life sciences.