Isabell Schrickel

Isabell Schrickel is a PhD candidate at the Center for Global Sustainability and Cultural Transformation (Leuphana University / Arizona State University). She studied Media Theory, Art History and Journalism at Humboldt and Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Basel. In 2010 she received her master’s degree with a thesis on the media history of weather forecasting. From 2011-2013 she worked as a research associate at Technische Universität Berlin and in 2013 she began her thesis on the history of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) at MECS. She organized the MECS Annual Conference Dealing with Climate Change – Calculus & Catastrophe in the Age of Simulation in June 2015. She teaches at Humboldt University and Leuphana University. From April to October 2017 Isabell was visiting fellow at the Harvard Department of the History of Science. Currently, she is a guest researcher at the KLI and IIASA in Vienna.
She holds memberships in the European Society for Environmental History and the Society for Social Studies of Science.