Marina Maia did her Bacharelado em Arquitetura e Urbanismo (Bachelor in Architecture and Urban Planning) at the Federal University of Ceará (Brazil). She completed her Mestrado em Planejamento Urbano e Regional (Master in Urban and Regional Planning) at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in the research line City, Culture and Politics.

Marina Maia has worked as a research assistant in a project comprising ecological sustainability and heritage management in urban planning (under Prof. Dr. José Almir Farias Filho). In her Master’s, she did research on urban history, axiology, and heritage policy (under Prof. Dr. Inês Martina Lersch). She also did her training at Brazil’s National Institute of Historical and Artistic Heritage (IPHAN), Fortaleza, Ceará, and at France’s National Directory of Cultural Affairs (Drac), Lyon, Rhônes Alpes. Marina Maia is a member of ICOMOS Brazil and her research interests lie in the fields of Cultural Heritage, Urban History, Planning, Cartography, Conceptual and Political History. Currently, she is working on her PhD thesis with Prof. Dr. Astrid Schwarz.

Marina de Castro Teixera Maia
Lehrgebäude 10
Erich-Weinert-Str. 1
03046 Cottbus

marina.deCastroTeixeiraMaia(at)b-tu.de

Office Hours

Only by appointment

Research Fields

Technology as Epistemic Culture

• Boundary Objects
• Conceptual History

Ethico-political Thinking

• Heritage Policy and Management
• Heritage Activism
• Cultural Rights

Images as Instrument

• Historical GIS
• Historical Cartography

Olivier Rossel

Lehrgebäude 10
Erich-Weinert-Str. 1
03046 Cottbus

olivier.rossel(at)b-tu.de

Office Hours

Only by appointment

Research Fields

Technology as Epistemic Culture

• practice-based artistic research
• particle physics
• virtual and performative materialities

Ethico-political Thinking

• multiple realities
• new materialisms
• ethico-onto-epistem-ology

Future Narratives

• heterogeneous knowledge spaces
• situated knowledge and partial perspectives
• video-essay and sound-agencies

Jonathan Bill Doe majored in Philosophy of History at the University of Ghana and later received an M.A. in Museum and Heritage Studies from the same university. He conducted field work and participated in the Koma Land archaeological research project in Northern Ghana for his M.A. thesis under the supervision of Prof. Benjamin Warinsie Kankpeyeng. Jonathan Doe then completed methods courses in teaching history at University of Cape Coast, earning a Postgraduate Certificate in Education. He moved to BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg to pursue an M.A. in World Heritage Studies, completing his thesis on Archaeology of Wetlands Commons: Anlo Adaptive Management of Keta Lagoon under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Astrid Schwarz and Dr. Anca Prodan.

At BTU, Jonathan Doe has worked as a research assistant on the Environmental Humanities project at the Chair of Technoscience Studies. He has also worked with the Historical Society of Ghana and as a freelance tour guide and interpreter of Ghanaian heritage for both local and international audiences. He was a member of the USA’s National Science Foundation sponsored research project, Diaspora for Development, serving as a Willamette University Junior Scholar. Jonathan Doe has shared his ideas with professionals, academics and activists in Taiwan, Japan, USA and the Netherlands. He has been featured on The Ghanaian State public broadcasting and in radio documentaries, giving reflections on current affairs. Jonathan was awarded 2021 DAAD STIBET scholarship and presently KAAD scholarship holder. His is working on PhD topic, Urban Gardening and Sociotechnical Imaginary in Postcolonial Ghana with Prof. Dr. Astrid Schwarz at BTU.

Jonathan Bill Doe, M.A.
Lehrgebäude 10
Erich-Weinert-Str. 1
03046 Cottbus

jonathanbill.doe(at)b-tu.de

Office Hours

Only by appointment

Research Fields

Technology as Epistemic Culture

• Theories of Technoscience
• Postcolonial Philosophical Fieldwork

Ethico-political Thinking

• Garden Practice in the Commons
• Decolonising Ecology
• Wetland Culture

Environmental Anthropology

• From Homo faber to Homo hortensis

Images as Instruments

• Urban Futures

Rahul completed his undergraduate degree in nanotechnology and was subsequently accepted as a full scholar for his master's thesis at the Ian Wark Research Institute in South Australia. Rahul also worked as a PhD student at the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay for two years, where he conducted research on the energy of grain boundary separation in nanomaterials, before deciding to switch academic paths to a more affective field.

Rahul completed his master's degree in environmental and resource management at BTU Cottbus. Professor Schwarz is supervising his thesis entitled "Gardening in order to afford future environmental stewards." In his thesis, Rahul aims to provide a decision-making framework for the holistic evaluation of energy and environmental policy alternatives. Our research will aim to improve the efficiency, inclusiveness, and legitimacy of environmental policy decisions through interdisciplinary research on energy transition.

Rahul Goswami

Lehrgebäude 10
Erich-Weinert-Str. 1
03046 Cottbus

goswarah@b-tu.de

Office hours

By appointment only

Research areas

Technology as a culture of knowledge

Ethical-political thinking

Future narratives

Ahmed has a bachelor of engineering (B. Eng.) degree, majoring in power mechanics. After completing the bachelor Ahmed worked for 4 years in different engineering projects (e.g. amusement parks, water processing stations, solar energy and solar heaters). Through his work experience he developed an interest in environmental concerns and renewable energy. 5 years after the bachelor Ahmed was accepted for a maser’s study in Environmental and Resource Management in B-TU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany.

During his master’s studies Ahmed gained and developed new interest in the sociological and philosophical aspects of environment and energy. For his master’s thesis, he applied qualitative analysis of the phenomenon of Energy/Fuel Poverty within European policy discourse with the Technoscience Chair under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Astrid Schwarz and Dr. Ingmar Lippert. Ahmed’s master’s thesis is to be published in cooperation with Dr. Ingmar Lippert in the coming Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group)’s project “Living with Energy Poverty: Perspectives from the Global North and South”. The thesis will be the 19th chapter of the book, which is titled “From Energy Poverty to Vulnerability: A Discourse Analysis of the European Union’s National Energy and Climate Plans”.

Ahmed also worked as a research assistant for about two and half years with Energypedia UG, a wiki platform for collaborative knowledge exchange on renewable energy, energy access, and energy efficiency. During his time he worked (solely/co-authored and updated) on variety of articles regarding different energy topics (e.g. From the ‘Energy Ladder’ to ‘Fuel Stacking’, The Economics of Renewable Energy, The Off-grid Appliance Market, Access to Modern Energy, Mini grid Operation Models). A part of Energypedia’s vision is to have an all-inclusive designed energy profiles for nations worldwide, and particularly the countries of the Global South. Ahmed worked on and updated a total of 47 energy profiles (e.g. Egypt, Suriname, Malawi, Ghana, Lesotho).

Ahmed has also a one and a half years of experience working as university tutor in B-TU –during his studies–, distributed over three semesters. Additionally, Ahmed worked for about a year and a half with Deutsche Welle in Egypt as an interpreter (Arabic-English and vice-versa).

For his PhD Ahmed intends to investigate the socio-historic relations between different human societies and energy sources through history, and how these relations participate in shaping and forming human history. Moreover, how also these relations shape different energy transitions through the ages, and the role of community energy in shaping the current energy transition.

Ahmed Noaman El-Sherbini

Lehrgebäude 10
Erich-Weinert-Str. 1
03046 Cottbus

ahmadnoamman(at)gmail.com

Office hours

By appointment only

Research areas

Technology as Epistemic Culture

• Theories of techno-science
• Energy transition(s) as cultural practice(s) and need(s)

Environmental Anthropology

• The complex reciprocal relations between human-societies, their environments and the available energy resources
• Understanding Energy Transitions within the context of indigenous natural resources management in correlation to indigenous energy needs

Future narratives

• How the current Energy Transition and the current state of the energy market will shape the future of human societies and vice-versa

Paloma Leguizamón is anthropologist/archaeologist and M.A. in Anthropology (Archaeology and Bioanthropology research line) from the National University of Colombia. Her professional experience has focused on cultural heritage, archaeological heritage and World Heritage management, management plan formulation, and declaration processes of cultural heritage in Latin America. Since 2016 she served as Head of Archaeological Protected Areas and World Heritage, Coordinator of the Heritage Group and Deputy Director of Heritage Management at the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History – ICANH, public national entity in charge of the archaeological heritage in Colombia, where she led processes of nomination and management of World Heritage Sites. She is also a member of ICOMOS Colombia and has been part of the World Heritage Leadership Program of the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM).

At BTU Paloma Leguizamón is currently working on her PhD research project with Prof. Dr. Astrid Schwarz. Her research aims to understand the role of World Heritage in post-conflict contexts in Latin America as a base for enhancing the protection of World Heritage Sites and community involvement.

Contact

Paloma Leguizamón

Teaching building 10
Erich-Weinert-Str. 1
03046 Cottbus

leguilau(at)b-tu-de

Office hours

By appointment only

Research areas

Environmental Anthropology

• Cultural heritage management
• World Heritage Management
• Community engagement
• Cultural heritage and conflict

Elizabeth gained her bacherlor’s degree in International Relations and Business at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador in Quito. After having worked almost four years at the U.S. Embassy in her home country, she decided to pursue her interests in Global History in the Erasmus Mundus Master Program of Global Studies in the Universities of Vienna and Leipzig.

Upon her return to Ecuador, and with the dawn of the global pandemic, she and a group of partners setup a consulting firm that addressed the need to reuse residues from the agri-food sector and add value. Circular Bioeconomy was the guiding economic model of this project within the context of Andean country. This experience provided fertile ground to assess the intersections between Natural World Heritage and Bioeconomy, which is the topic of Elizabeth’s research at the moment.

Contact

Elizabeth Bedón Sánchez

Teaching building 10
Erich-Weinert-Str. 1
03046 Cottbus

bedonmar(at)b-tu.de

Office hours

By appointment only

Research areas

Environmental Anthropology

• Assemblages of Technology and Environment
• Ecotechnologies