Ass.-Prof. Dr. Friederike Gesing, MA

Friederike Gesing is Assistant Professor of Human Geography with focus on Posthuman Studies at the Institute of Geography and Regional Science, University of Graz. She received her PhD in 2015 in the context of the interdisciplinary research training group INTERCOAST (Integrated Coastal and Shelf-Sea Research), jointly organized by the Center for Marine Environmental Research (marum) at the University of Bremen and the University of Waikato in New Zealand. Her ethnographic study on soft coastal protection in Aotearoa New Zealand was awarded the Bremer Studienpreis 2016. In 2012/13 she was Research Fellow at the Program for Science and Technology Studies at Harvard University. At artec Research Centre for Sustainability, University of Bremen, Friederike Gesing has worked on transnational climate networks and co-founded the Bremen NatureCultures Lab. She is currently conducting empirical research on nitrogen as an emerging political practice field on a global and local scales. She is a member of the Postdoc Academy for Transformational Leadership 2019-2021.