{"id":690,"date":"2017-02-15T23:17:28","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T22:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ethnoserver.hu-berlin.de\/ethnoblog\/sts\/?page_id=690"},"modified":"2025-08-27T11:47:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T09:47:14","slug":"klein","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/people\/current-members\/klein\/","title":{"rendered":"Anja Klein"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"BllackI am a PhD student at the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt Universit\u00e4t zu Berlin with a focus on science and technology studies and submitted my thesis in April. Until recently I worked as a research associate in a DFG-funded project at HU Berlin and TU Munich. In 2018, I received my M.A. in European Ethnology on \u201cKnowledge Practices in the Modelling of \u2018Socio-Ecological Coevolutions\u2019<\/a>“. Before, I studied social and cultural anthropology at Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin and Aix-Marseille Universit\u00e9, France. Departing from classical laboratory studies, I am interested in current knowledge production in the environmental sciences and sustainability research (especially mathematical modeling and computer simulations), human-environment relations, complexity science and research methodologies in general. I deeply enjoy working in and communicating across interdisciplinary contexts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Contact: anja.klein@hu-berlin.de<\/a><\/p>\n

Find me also at:\u00a0 IRI THEsys<\/a> |\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>ResearchGate<\/a> |\u00a0Institute for European Ethnology |<\/a>\u00a0CECO (Code Ethnography Collective)<\/a> | ORCiD<\/a><\/p>\n

PhD research (funded by DFG project no. 497511081<\/span><\/a>): <\/strong>Doing difference, materiality and complexity with simulation models: An ethnography of modeling social-ecological relations in interdisciplinary sustainability research<\/p>\n

Mathematical and computational modeling has become a central knowledge practice in scientific knowledge production across the disciplines. Especially environmental modeling of the climate and the earth system hast gained a certain political attention. My PhD-project takes the modeling of human-environment processes in the environmental sciences as an object of ethnographic inquiry. The central research question is: How are human-environment- relations understood, conceptualized and done in modeling? I will conduct ethnographic fieldwork with working groups of modelers who follow very different approaches in modeling these dynamics: First, the modeling of social-ecological systems as complex adaptive systems on a local to regional scale and secondly the integration of \u201chuman dynamics\u201d into already existing large scale earth system or land-use models.<\/p>\n

The aims of this project are disciplinary as well as interdisciplinary. From a perspective in anthropological Science and Technology Studies, I am interested in understanding the ontological assumptions and practices in modeling human agency, collectivity, environmental dynamics, complexity, the social etc. and how these produce frictions with concepts in anthropology. Concerning interdisciplinarity, I am interested in (1) how the working groups practice interdisciplinarity, (2) how translation and communication between modeling and anthropological methods concerning their respective boundaries and benefits might be enhanced and (3) the comparison of the cases aims at operationalizing the notion of \u201csituated knowledges\u201d in order to support our development of a framework of \u201cSituated Modeling\u201d at the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys, HU Berlin).<\/p>\n

Publications<\/h1>\n
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2025<\/h3>

Krystin Unverzagt, Tobias Krueger, Anja Klein, Rossella Alba, M\u00e1rk Somogyv\u00e1ri<\/p>

Situating Bayesian Knowledge: A Case Study of Modelling Pollutant Transfers from Land to Water<\/a> Journal Article<\/span> <\/p>

In: <\/span>Computational Culture, <\/span>2025<\/span>.<\/p>

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\r\nyear  = {2025},
\r\ndate = {2025-07-01},
\r\njournal = {Computational Culture},
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