Sergio PORTA (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow), 2025-01-16 15:00 (CET). Please join our colloquium via Zoom!

New blog by Rebecca Freeth (Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam) and Guido Caniglia (KLI)

Naomi ORESKES (Harvard University), 10 June 2021, 3.00 pm. To join our colloquium please register with Zoom.

Exhibition by Andreas MATHES on Thursday 29 November, 6.00 pm at the KLI. Registration required!

Friday 8 November, 5.00 pm: Vernissage of Gerhard Papp´s pen drawings.

Cornelia Caufmann: Vernissage am 5. Oktober 2018, "ink texture VI" / Art Performance und Live Elektronik von Cornelia Caufmann (Zeichnungen) & Tobias Leibetseder (Komposition). Beginn: 19.00 Uhr

Kendall Baker was artist in residence at the KLI. His interdisciplinary art-science project “Measuring Life at the Threshold of Unknowing” concluded with a stunning vernissage.

Watch the eleven symposium videos and five Mendel stories on our Youtube channel.

The Vienna Science Studies Lab reading group continues and the lab will be expanded, hosting meetings on works in progress to enable constructive feedback.

KLI alumnus Wim Hordijk unveils his nature photography in VienNature: a Vienna Nature Exhibition

We welcome Chia-Hua Lin to the KLI who will work on her project "The Migrations of Game Theory and Formal Language Theory: Understanding the Crossdisciplinary Use of Mathematical Constructs, Its Epistemic Opportunities and Risks" from July 15th to September 30th.

We welcome Maria Cerezo (University of Murcia) to the KLI who will work on her project "Interactions between Metaphysics and Biology: Some Study-Cases in Molecular, Developmental and Evolutionary Biology" from July 30th to September 3rd.

We welcome Visiting Fellow Timothy WARING to the KLI. Tim be at the institute from April 1st to 6th, 2019 and will work on the project "Expanding Evolutionary Approaches to Sustainability" together with KLI Scientific Director Guido Caniglia.

We welcome Chiara Elettra Ferrario to the KLI who will work on a joint project with KLI postdoctoral fellow Ivan Gonzalez-Cabrera.

We welcome Isabell SCHRICKEL to the KLI who will work on her project "IIASA and the Making of Sustainability Science" starting on April 23rd, 2019.

Guido Caniglia (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg) gives a KLI Colloquium on January 31st, 3.00 pm.

KLI fellow and ecologist Roberto Cazzolla Gatti screened his 2019 documentary "Ivindo: a journey into the green heart of Africa" at our first colloquium of the fall/winter term.

We are very happy to welcome our new Writing-Up Fellow Aleksa Ratarac to the KLI! Aleksa is currently pursuing his PhD degree at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His research focusses on the evolutionary developmental biology, phenotypic plasticity, and computational modeling of developmental processes in insect wings. At the KLI, Aleksa will be working on his project, “Fly wing development in silico: A computational investigation of morphological plasticity in Drosophila wings”, from 15 Feb to 14 August 2025. Here’s wishing Aleksa a hearty welcome and a fruitful time at the KLI. (Click on the title to know more about Aleksa!)

We are very happy to welcome our new Postdoctoral Fellow Andrea Gambarotto to the KLI! Andrea is trained in classical German philosophy and is inspired by Kant and Hegel. His research interest lies in complex systems theory, with a particular focus on the relation between teleology, agency and cognition in biological systems, and is influenced by the framework of biological autonomy. Andrea believes that bridging the classical philosophies of nature and current approaches in biological theory will help in advancing knowledge in both sides. (Click on the title to know more about Andrea!)

Brenner's project "The Critical Role of Built Infrastructure for the Transformation towards Sustainability" examines the co-evolution of built environments and formal and informal rules that contribute to the climate crisis and social-ecological inequalities.