Since the 1st of August 2020, Rupa has joined our team as a PhD scholar within the partnership “Appraising risk, past and present: Interrogating historical data to enhance understanding of environmental crises in the Indian Ocean World”. In her PhD project she will focus on the relevance of a historical perspective for contemporary flood risk management in India. Due to the current Covid-19 situation in India, she starts by concentrating on disaster communication. The PhD is jointly supervised by Julia Verne and Brian Tomaszewski from the Rochester Institute of Technology, USA.Research Assistants
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Michael Witte
Jetske Kolaczek
Since the winter semester 2017/18, Jetske has been studying Geography at the University of Bonn. In January 2019, she joined the research group Julia Verne. She assists the group in various ways, for example by researching literature or by preparing overviews of research domains.
Rupert Neuhöfer
From 2012 to 2016 Rupert studied Humangeography and Political Science at Goethe-University in Frankfurt/Main. After a gap-year doing internships he enrolled in the Geography Masters program at Bonn University in 2017 and studied one term at York University in Toronto, Canada. He’s interested in research at the intersections of Cultural and Economic Geography, Political Ecology, Development Studies and STS. Within the CRC228 “Future Rural Africa” Rupert works at Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC) and supports the RG Verne since January 2020.
Oleg Ködding-Zurmühlen
Oleg graduated in 2017 with a Bachelor of Science in Geography from the University of Bonn with a thesis on geographical representations of the indigenous environmental movement of Standing Rock. In October 2017, he began studying geography for his Master's degree at the University of Bonn. In 2019 he completed a semester abroad in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Since April 2020 he supports the RG Verne. He works mainly on maritime and more-than-human geography and is interested in transformational politics and speculative futures. Besides his studies, he does Storytelling for Earthly Survival with the i Gigi Saggi art collective.
