Sandra Jasper

Sandra Jasper is Assistant Professor for Geography of Gender in Human-Environment-Systems at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Deputy Director of the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys). She researches the relationship between cities, urbanization, and socio-ecological change. She is co-editor (with Matthew Gandy) of The Botanical City (jovis, 2020) and co-author and producer of the award-winning documentary film Natura Urbana: The Brachen of Berlin (UK/GER, 72min). She is currently writing a monograph about the experimental spaces of West Berlin for which she received a Graham Foundation Award. Her new collaborative research project „Re-Scaling Global Health. Human Health and Multispecies Cohabitation on an Urban Planet“ (2023-2026), funded by the Berlin University Alliance Grand Challenge Global Health, investigates the multiple links between health, biodiversity, and pollution in urban spaces.