Country/Region of interest/research focus: Germany, United States, New Zealand

Iván Vargas-Chaves has taught at universities in Colombia, Mexico, El Salvador, Brazil, Spain, and Peru, and was a visiting scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Law at Universidad Militar Nueva Granada in Colombia, and member of the Intellectual Property in the Biosciences Group at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin. His research focuses on Law and Life Sciences, International Environmental Law, Plant Breeder’s Rights, and Genetic Resources Regulation. His work further explores the intersection of intellectual property and critical challenges in the life sciences, particularly their impacts on environmental issues.

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Country/Region of interest/research focus: Colombia

{:en}My current research focus is on planetary health. In my master’s thesis, I will analyse the German debate on planetary health with a particular focus on climate justice and transformation models. I try to incorporate postcolonial, discrimination-sensitive and feminist thinking into my research and writing. More-than-human ecologies, multispecies ethnography and medical anthropology as well as multimodality and science communication are also in my area of interest.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Munich and surrounding area

Involvement in the collaborative research project Careseite zum Thema multispezies Gesundheit und Care im Anthropozän

Diego Silva is an economist/anthropologist and works as Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre of International Environmental Studies (CIES) at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), in Geneva. His work is located at the intersection of science and technology studies, environmental and economic anthropology, and agrarian studies. His current research agenda includes: 1) the socio-technical analysis of seed commodity networks and the rural conflicts surrounding the deployment of agricultural innovations in Latin America (FNS Postdoc project); 2) the anthropological study of climate change mitigation in agriculture through the emergent knowledge and practices of environmental accounting (PI: prof. Shaila Seshia Galvin); and 3) the political ecology of the EU energy transition with a focus on the lithium battery production chain, linking Latin American suppliers of lithium minerals with the European lithium battery industry (co-coordinator for the project led by prof. Marc Hufty).

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Latin America, Colombia and Argentina

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Researcher in the Department of Media Technology at the University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg and is a PhD candidate at Leuphana University, Lüneburg. She is currently working on the North Sea Region Interreg research project DARKER SKY. The project’s overall aim is to reduce light pollution, thereby increasing biodiversity and ecological connectivity in the North Sea Region. Within the project, Anna’s research focuses on the integration of more-than-human participatory design approaches into planning processes. In her dissertation she applies enactive cognitive science, ecological psychology and posthumanist theories to explore a more environmentally-just approach to lighting in public space.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Hamburg/Flensburg