This project focuses on the main drivers of urbanization and the resulting interplay between biodiversity and human health.

How is the mobility of people and things interlinked with the mobility of mosquitoes and the spread of associated arboviral diseases?

This project engages with attempts to (re)gain control over the African Swine Fever virus in Brandenburg (North-Eastern Germany) and practices of knowing and caring for a contested ecological balance in a relational world.

This project probes how Latin American decolonial conceptions such as Buen Vivir are considered at the Humboldt Forum Berlin when dealing with objects and symbolic forms appropriated by colonial practices.

This project asks how different residents in Sudan’s most conflicted areas define what they ‘have’ around them, if and how it should be extracted and put to use, and who should be allowed to do that.

This project looks into human-forest entanglements in Sierra Leone by inquiring into the social and economic forms and moral dimensions of sustaining ecology, life and subjectivation.

This project investigates on the practice of medical and natural sciences in Eastern Africa. It mainly focuses on relations between fieldworkers and their fields in different settings.

This project asks how lay people come to know and trust scientific evidence of otherwise unobservable toxicity and translate this knowledge into quests for accountability.

This project explores how reflection on and labor over the toxic have come to define both ethical subjects and emergent objects of knowledge and practice in East Africa.

This project scrutinizes European memory sites to inquire how memory and remembrance are institutionalized in national as well as European identity politics.

This project investigates technologies for controlling mosquito-borne diseases as a window into science and public health policies in Brazil.