Dr. Nadja Thiessen
Institute of Geographical Sciences
Disaster Research Unit (DRU)
Research Associate
BUA-Projekt: Einstein Research Unit „CliWaC: Climate and Water under Change“ (Project led by Prof. Dr. Martin Voss)
Address
Carl-Heinrich-Becker-Weg 6-10
12165 Berlin
12165 Berlin
Academic and Professional Career
- 09/2024-11/2024: research associate at the Disaster Research Unit at FU Berlin, research project: Einstein Research Unit Climate and Water under Change (CliWaC)
- 01/2020-present: research associate at the Institute of History at TU Darmstadt, research project: LOEWE-Zentrum emergenCITY
- 07/2020: doctorate at TU Darmstadt on "Floods at Rivers and the Endangerment of City Infrastructure in Mannheim and Dresden in the 20th Century", advised by Prof. Dr. Jens Ivo Engels und Prof. Dr. Martina Heßler
- 10/2016-09/2019: research associate at the post graduate programm KRITIS at TU Darmstadt
- 09/2016: Master-Thesis on „Student Conflicts at TH Darmstadt in the long 1960s"
- 11/2013: Bachelor-Thesis on „‚MOPR is a Women's thing? – Assignments and Perceptions of Women in the Roten Hilfe Germany, 1924-1933“
Research Focus
- Historical disaster research
- History of infrastructure
- History of cities
Publikationen (Auswahl)
Thiessen, N. 2023. Gefährdung städtischer Infrastruktur durch Hochwasser. Wahrnehmungen und Bewältigungsstrategien in Mannheim und Dresden 1918–1989. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110734676.