The second cohort of the Humboldt Residency Programme addressed the question of how a different approach to our use of natural resources could pave the way for a more sustainable – and thus more secure – future. With emphasis on the interface between global ecological pressure, political volatility and societal conditions, actors from the science community, the arts, the media and civil society discussed potential solutions to the most pressing issues facing humankind today.
Humboldt Residency Programme 2023
The former Humboldt Research Fellow Pratyush Shankar is architect and professor of urban history and design at Navrachana University in Vadodara, India. He heads this year’s Humboldt Residency Programme.
Evelyn Araripe is an environmental educator with expertise in climate education for youth in international projects. She is a PhD Candidate in the Green Chemistry, Sustainability and Education Research Group at the Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil, as well as a visiting lecturer and researcher at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany.
Biologist Santos Chicas is assistant professor at Kyūshū University, Japan. With the help of machine learning and methods deriving from social science he searches for solutions to environmental problems like deforestation and forest fires. He conducted research at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin on a Georg Forster Research Fellowship until February 2023.
Magdalena Hart translates the language of nature using virtual reality and creative coding. The artist from UK/Uruguay creates interactive installations and wants her art to make the signals sent by nature audible and perceptible.
Antonia Krefeld-Schwalb is a consumer researcher with a background in cognitive psychology. She is an Assistant Professor at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University in the Netherlands.
Lucy Ombaka is a chemist with a focus on the production of green hydrogen at Technical University of Kenya in Nairobi, Kenya. As a Georg Forster Research Fellow she conducted research at the Institute of Technical Chemistry at Leibniz University Hannover from 2018 to 2021.
Hlengiwe Radebe works as Civil Society and Youth Engagement Officer at WWF South Africa. She is the Chairperson of the Climate Action Network South Africa’s board of directors and a board advisor at Mukuru Clean Stoves.
Christopher Schrader has been a freelance journalist specialising in climate research since 2015.
Sociologist Stephen Woroniecki is an assistant professor in the Environmental Change Unit of the Department of Thematic Studies at Linköping University, Sweden, and researcher at the Nature-based Solutions Initiative at Oxford University, United Kingdom.
The waste management expert Lou Ziyang is Professor at the China Institute for Urban Governance at Shanghai Jiaotong University in Shanghai, China. As an International Climate Protection Fellow of the Humboldt Foundation, he conducted research at the TU Dresden in 2010.
Participants of the 2023 cohort at the Schloss Wiepersdorf residency location in Brandenburg
Discussion round on the topic of "Local approaches to sustainable living" with representatives of local and state politics in Brandenburg
Humboldt Residency Cohort 2023 with representatives of sponsoring and partner organisations
The Humboldt Residency cohort 2023 as visiting guests at the Einstein Center for Digital Future: in the centre of the photo Robert Schlögl, President of the Humboldt Foundation, and Henry Marx (State Secretary for Science, Senate Department for Higher Education and Research, Health and Long-Term Care)
Panel discussion on "Green Hydrogen" with Stefan Kaufmann, Lucy Ombaka (Humboldt Residency Programme), Anika Ponder (moderator, IKEM), Robert Schlögl (Humboldt Foundation), Anne Wasike-Schalling (Reiner Lemoine Institute)
Late summer reception and Kosmos Lecture 2023 with Pratyush Shankar, Antonia Krefeld-Schwalb (Participants of the Residency Programme) and Robert Schlögl (President of the Humboldt Foundation)
Late summer reception 2023: Residency cohort with families and the Humboldt Foundation's organisation team
