Postdoctoral Researcher
Dr. Anna-Maria Walter is a socio-cultural anthropologist who specializes in gender and plural knowledge forms in high mountain environments. She is the author of Love and Marriage in Pakistan’s High Mountains (Rutgers University Press 2022). Learn more.

Postodctoral Researcher
Dr. Matthew Barlow is an environmental anthropologist who specializes on water, waste, and plural knowledge forms in South Asian environments. His current book project is, Backwater Urbanism: Reimagining Waste in a Saturated City. Learn more.

Research Scientist, TUM Public Science Lab
Dr. Anwesha Borthakur is trained in environmental science and science policy. Her past work has addressed circuits of e-waste and textile waste across India; current research explores changing lifeways in conditions of climate change in the western Himalaya. Learn more.

Postdoctoral Researcher
Dr. Mascha Gugganig is a sociocultural anthropologist, scholar in science and technology studies (STS) and curator for exhibitions at the intersection of (agricultural) science, technology, society and the arts. Her work is concerned with contested technologies in agriculture.
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Postdoctoral Researcher
Dr. Anna Antonova is an environmental humanities scholar specializing in coastal communities, environmental policy, and social and ecological justice. Her research explores societal transformations, the Blue Economy, and EU marine governance through comparative and interdisciplinary approaches. Learn more.

Research Assistant
Debbie is a Master's student in Science and Technology Studies (STS) at Technical University Munich (TUM). As a Research Assistant in Sustainable Urban Environments, she supports the group in interdisciplinary research at the intersection of technology, society, and urban sustainability.