{"id":3752,"date":"2025-11-07T21:31:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T20:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/?p=3752"},"modified":"2025-11-14T21:05:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T20:05:57","slug":"congratulations-anja-klein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/2025\/11\/congratulations-anja-klein\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations, Anja Klein!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lab warmly congratulates (soon-to-be-Dr.) <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/people\/current-members\/klein\/\">Anja Klein<\/a> on finishing, submitting, and defending her PhD thesis on November 7th, 2025! <\/p>\n<p>The title of Anja\u2019s thesis is <strong>\u201cDoing difference, materiality and complexity with simulation models: An ethnography of modeling social-ecological relations in interdisciplinary sustainability research.\u201d<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract: <\/strong><br \/>\nIn the thesis, I explore the epistemological, ontological, and ethical dimensions of modelling in interdisciplinary sustainability research as a set of iterative and entangled material-semiotic knowledge practices. This is grounded in ethnographic fieldwork on the construction and use of statistical and numerical models of social-ecological relations in two research groups in Stockholm and Accra. How are these relations conceptualized and enacted in modelling practices, and how can a social and cultural anthropological engagement with such practices be a generative one?<\/p>\n<p>This research was conducted in the research project \u201cSituating complexity: an ethnography of modelling human-environment relations\u201d, funded by the German Research Foundation, and hosted by the Institute for European Ethnology (HU Berlin) &#038; IRI THEsys (HU Berlin).<br \/>\nThe thesis was supervised by J\u00f6rg Niew\u00f6hner &#038; Tobias Kr\u00fcger. Ruzana Liburkina confirmed summa cum laude as external advisor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lab warmly congratulates (soon-to-be-Dr.) Anja Klein on finishing, submitting, and defending her PhD thesis on November 7th, 2025! The title of Anja\u2019s thesis is \u201cDoing difference, materiality and complexity with simulation models: An ethnography of modeling social-ecological relations in interdisciplinary sustainability research.\u201d Abstract: In the thesis, I explore the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3752"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3752"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3764,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3752\/revisions\/3764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}