Jelena Große-Bley

Jelena Grosse-Bley holds an MA in Modern East Asian Studies from Georg August University of Göttingen and an MSc in Environmental Management from The University of Hong Kong. Before joining the China Studies Institute at Freie Universität Berlin 2018-2021 as a lecturer and research affiliate, she spent a number of years studying and working in various locations across Greater China, including two years at Peking University, Beijing. She started pursuing her PhD at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin as part of the IRI THESys Graduate Program in 2020. Her project is concerned with climate change adaptation in agriculture in the People’s Republic of China with an interest in meteorology, plant breeding and the navigation of uncertainties. At the MPIWG, she is a Visiting Predoctoral Fellow in the Lise Meitner Research Group "China in the Global System of Science." She is also a project coordinator in the Sino-German Innovation and Transformation Dialogue “Sustainable use and management of agrobiodiversity as a contribution to transformation to climate change resilient food systems and innovative development in rural regions” (2023-2024) funded by the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture.