Academic Education
2015: PhD in Geography, University College London, UK
Thesis title: Cyborg Imaginations: Nature, Technology, and Urban Space in West Berlin
2008 Magister Artium in Geography and Gender Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Professional Experience (selected)
Since 2020: Junior Professor for Geography of Gender in Human-Environment-Systems, Department of Geography, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
2015 – 2019: Postdoctoral Research Associate, European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant project Rethinking Urban Nature, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, UK
2014 – 2015: Research Associate, European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant project Rethinking Urban Nature, Department of Geography, University College London, UK
Since 2023: Co-Director of the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys),Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Since 2021: Board member of the Georg-Simmel-Centre for Metropolitan Studies (GSZ), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Since 2022: Advisor for the Berlin Senate (SenUVK)
Since 2023: Member of the Planetary Health Alliance (PHA)
2021-2025: Re – Scaling Global Health. Human Health and Multispecies Cohabitation on an Urban Planet, Berlin University Alliance
2023: Nature – Society Relations and the Global Environmental Crisis: Thinking on Climate Change and Sustainability from the Fields of Intersectional Theory and Transdisciplinary Gender Studies, DFG (international conference)
2022-2024: Designing with the Planet. Connecting Riparian Zones of Struggle in São Paulo, Jakarta, and Berlin, Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
2014-2019: Rethinking Urban Nature, ERC
Hunter, H., Jasper, S. & Prior, J. (2024, forthcoming): Digital Sonic Ecologies: Encountering Nonhumans through Digital Sound Recordings, in Digital Ecologies: Mediating More-than-human Worlds. Edited by Henry Anderson-Elliott, Eva Giraud, Adam Searle and Jonathan Turnbull (Manchester University Press).
Bauhardt, C. & Jasper, S. (eds.) (2024, forthcoming): Gender, Power, Climate Change: Transdisciplinary Perspectices on the Global Environmental Crisis (Routledge).
Kemmer, L. & Jasper, S. (2023): Urbanizing soil: an exercise in grounding planetary health from Berlin, Berliner Blätter (forthcoming special issue on Urbanizing Elements).
Jasper, S. (2022): Spekulative Ökologien: Die Finanzialisierung der Stadtnatur, ARCH+ Zeitschrift für
Architektur und Urbanismus 247: 108 – 113.
Jasper, S. (2021): Traversing Wastelands: Reflections on an Abandoned Railway Yard, in The New Urban Ruins. Edited by in Cian O’Callaghan and Cesare Di Feliciantonio (Bristol: Policy Press), pp. 53 – 72.
Gandy, M. & Jasper, S. (eds.) (2020): The Botanical City, Berlin: jovis.
Jasper, S. (2020): Acoustic Ecologies: Architecture, Nature, and Modernist Experimentation in West Berlin, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 110:4: 1114 – 1133.doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2019.1673143
Jasper, S. (2020): Abandoned Infrastructures and Nonhuman Life, Society and Space (30 Nov. 2020,
published online).
Jasper, S. (2018): Sonic Refugia: Nature, Noise-Abatement, and Landscape Design in West Berlin,
The Journal of Architecture 23:6 (2018): 936 – 960. doi.org/10.1080/13602365.2018.1505773
Gandy M. & Jasper, S. (2017): Geography, Materialism, and the Neo-Vitalist Turn,
Dialogues in Human Geography 7:2: 140 – 144. doi.org/10.1177/2043820617717848