Jörg Niewöhner

Jörg Niewöhner researches and works as a professor for the ethnology of urban spaces and cultures at the Department of European Ethnology at Humboldt-Universtität zu Berlin. He is a founding member and co-spokesperson of the »Integrative Research Institute of Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys)« and a member of the council of the Georg Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies. As a Principal Investigator, he is involved in numerous projects at the intersection of anthropology, psychiatry and life sciences.

Research areas

Urban research, science and technology studies, ecological anthropology.