Research group for the ethnographic inquiry into ecologies, infrastructures, bodies and knowledges
Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human Relations

Associated Members & Guests

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is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University (CEU). By focusing on alimentary tropes and relationships, her dissertation explores the political implications in the turns to ontology of the strands of medical and environmental humanities in STS, anthropology, new materialisms, and the discourses of Indigenous scholars.

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is a PhD candidate at Princeton University and associate of the L:AEHR. He works with river trade on the Xingu River basin in the Brazilian Amazon.

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Currently, I am a PostDoc in the interdiscisplinary research project "Mind the City! Kollaborative Exploration städtischer Umwelten anhand psychischer Gesundheiten*" at the Institute of European Ethnology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Together with colleagues from psychiatry, we are tracing neighborhood effects on mental health in a case study of one street in Berlin.

Previously, I defended my PhD thesis "BioÖkologien des Begegnens: Eine ethnografische Untersuchung der relationalen Konstitution psychischer Gesundheit und urbaner Umwelten" (Nov. 2021, HU Berlin).

My research interests comprise Social Anthropology of Science and Technology, Medical Anthropology, Urban Anthropology and Human-Environment Relations.

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is a doctoral student at the Institute for European Ethnology. His research interests are media and relational anthropology, (digital) labour.

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(née Klotz) is a Senior Fellow (Science Communication & Research) at the Department of Psychology and Ergonomics of Technical University Berlin. She previously worked as a lecturer at the Department for European Ethnology of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Maren's research focuses on modes of solidarity and sociality in a technological world. The research group (Human Factors & Ergonomics) at the TU Berlin she's part of studies work systems from both theoretical and applied perspectives.

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Martina Klausner is Professor for Digital Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies at the Institut for Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at Goethe-University, Frankfurt/Main. She completed her studies and her PhD at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin at the Institute of European Ethnology, where she has also worked in different Postdoc projects.

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is a graduate student at the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her current research focuses on knowledge practices in urban planning processes.

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has recently completed her dissertation at the IRI THESys and Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Since October 2019 she is a post doctoral researcher in the research group Biotechnologies, Nature and Society at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt.

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is a final-stage doctoral researcher at the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her research focuses on extractivisms and alternatives, currently within the context of Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia.

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is a doctoral candidate at the Institute of European Ethnology and research associate at the Cluster of Excellence “Image Knowledge Gestaltung” at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. She is currently researching “Genesungsbegleitung” (professional peer support in psychiatric care), a newly emerging profession in Germany. Her focus lies on everyday production and negotiation of experiential expertise in this field.

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is a doctoral student at Technical University Berlin. He is working on a PhD project about experimental practices in behavioural governance.

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is a visiting postdoc researcher at the Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human Relations. Currently, she works as a Learning Designer for Executive Education at the ESMT Berlin.

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is a Doctoral Researcher at the IRI THESys. Her research interests are global energy transitions, socio-technical systems and energy governance.