DFG and JSPS postdoctoral researcher funding for Martin Repohl

Martin Repohl will initially go to the renowned Institute for Research in Humanities at Kyoto University for 12 months from April 2026 to work on his project "Fūdo and Nature Alliance – Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Sociology of Collaborative Nature Relations in German-Japanese Dialogue" with Professor Tatsushi Fujihara. This will be followed by a switch to DFG funding for the project "Habitability: A Sociological Concept? – Constellations of habitability in the Anthropocene from a socio-theoretical perspective. An attempt at intercultural positioning". To this end, he will first spend a period as a visiting researcher at the internationally renowned Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (also in Kyoto) with Professor Daniel Niles. Martin Repohl will then take up a position at the newly established Transformation Lab at Leuphana University Lüneburg for 18 months. Here he will work together with Professor Harald Heinrichs and Professor Erich Hörl.

The question of collaborative relationships with nature in the context of changing planetary habitability is highly innovative and of central importance for basic research into socio-ecological transformation. "We congratulate Martin Repohl on this great success and wish him continued success in his scientific work," says Hartmut Rosa, Director of the Max-Weber-Kolleg for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt and supervisor of Repohl's doctoral thesis.