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

Current members

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is a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at Goethe-University Frankfurt and a research associate at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen. Her research is about policy instruments to further ecological sustainability transformations in cities.

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is a doctoral researcher on thermal comfort and dwelling practices in cold houses in southern Chile.

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is a doctoral candidate, research associate at the L:AEHR and research associate at the Centre Marc Bloch Berlin. Her current work is focused on human-thing relations in urban contexts, human-thing-Umwelten, and Thingspaces, like e.g. Selfstorage Facilities.

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is a doctoral fellow at the technical University of Berlin. Her current research focuses on how a (healthy) human microbiome is enacted through human-bacterial collaborations.

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is a Professor of Environmental Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies at the Institute of European Ethnology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her research develops connections between environmental, medical and urban anthropology.

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is a doctoral student at the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In her PhD project she investigates the social, political, economic and technological implications of the phenomenon of transgenerational trauma in the context of medical practice and memory politics.

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is a doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Philosophy at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and a doctoral researcher/lecturer at Freie Universität Berlin. Her current research focuses on climate change adaptation discourses and practices in the context of China’s agricultural system.

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is a PhD student in the BMBF-funded project Food4Future that brings together inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives on nutrition, food production, and sustainability.

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is an environmental anthropologist and a postdoctoral researcher at the IRI THESys and at the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She is interested in climate change reception, human water interaction and processes of transformation.

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is a graduate student at the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Departing from classical laboratory studies in science and technology studies, she is interested in current knowledge making practices in the sciences, different methodological approaches and research ethics.

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is an anthropologist of art and science, currently postdoctoral research associate at the Cluster of Excellence “Matters of Activities” (HU Berlin).

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Elisabeth Luggauer is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Department for European Ethnology (IfEE) at Humboldt University Berlin, working in the fields of urban and environmental anthropology.

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is postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for the History of Medicine & Science Studies, University of Lübeck, Germany. His current project investigates, as part of a multidisciplinary team, the „Meaning and Practices of Non-Invasive Prenatal Genetic Diagnostics in Germany and Israel“.

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is a doctoral candidate at the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt University of Berlin and at the Institute for Arts and Media at University of Potsdam. She investigates how knowledge emerges in new learning spaces that explore alternative formats of knowledge exchange between science and the public in the context of the Anthropocene.

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is a doctoral researcher at the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys). Her PhD project aims at strengthening practical reflection and reflective practice at the interface of STS and participatory socio-ecological modelling in order to understand better what participatory modelling does in society. She investigates how a participatory modelling practice interacts with elements of social order such as epistemology, cosmology, polity and citizen identity.

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is a PhD candidate at HU-Berlin researching how human-environment/human-object relations are currently being re-learned in Berlin primary school settings.