Current Projects
Third-party funded projects
ReSET - Reconfiguring Energy for Social Equity
- Prokect leads: PD Dr. Philipp Späth
Project staff: Dr. Bleta Arifi
Period: 08/2020 - 07/2024
Funding: Volkswagenstiftung
Cooperation partners: Utrecht University (NL, consortium lead), Indian Institute for Human Settlement (IN), Stellenbosch University (RSA)
UrbanA - Arenas for sustainable and just cities
- Project lead: PD Dr. Philipp Späth
Project staff: Sophia Silverton, Jakob Kramer, Romane Joly, Nadia Ali, Sophia McRae, Kassia Rudd
Period: 01/2019 - 12/2021
Funding: EU Horizon 2020
Cooperation partners: ICLEI Europe (consortium lead), ECOLISE, DRIFT Rotterdam (NL), UAB Barcelona (ES,) CEU Budapest (HU), FC.ID (PT)
Sub-project: “Professional epistemologies and integration of biodiversity-related knowledge into socio-political decision-making”
- DFG research training group "ConFoBi – Conservation of Forest Biodiversity in Multiple-Use Landscapes of Central Europe"
- Project lead: Prof. Dr. Michael Pregernig
Project staff: Ronja Mikoleit; Manuel John
Period: 07/2016 - 06/2025
Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Scientific qualification projects
The increasing decentralization of the German electricity supply system: implications for the technological infrastructure and resonance in political discourse coalitions
Ph.D. project - Simon Funke
Supervisor: PD Dr. Philipp Späth
Period: 02/2020 -
Territorialisation dynamics in post-conflict extractive resources governance: analyzing formalization processes of artisanal and small-scale mining zones in Colombia
Ph.D. project - Zabrina Welter
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Pregernig
Period: 01/2020 -
Funding: Heinrich Böll Stiftung
Exploring professional epistemologies in the context of forest biodiversity research
Associated with DFG Research training group ConFoBi
Ph.D. project - Manuel John
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Pregernig
- Period: 07/2019 -
Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Professional epistemologies and integration of biodiversity-related knowledge into socio-political decision-making
Associated with DFG Research training group ConFoBi
Ph.D. project - Ronja Mikoleit
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Pregernig
Period: 07/2016 -
Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Science-policy-society interactions in environmental risk and adaptation policymaking: evidence from Latin America and Europe
Associated with the project “Flood Adapt - Flood protection policies and climate change adaptation in Austria, Germany and Switzerland”
Ph.D project - Melani Pelaez Jara
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Pregernig
Period: 04/2016 -
Fundign: Heinrich Böll Stiftung
Food circulation shaping the hinterland: dairy supply chains in the Upper Rhine region
Ph.D project - Romane Joly
First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Philipp Späth
Second supervisor:
Period: 10/2020 - 12/2024
Funding: University of Strasbourg, Deutsch-Französische Hochschule