Finja Augsburg is a DAAD/AGI Research Fellow in Fall 2025.
Finja Isabel Augsburg is a doctoral researcher and project associate at the University of Erfurt, Germany. She is affiliated with the Institute for Planetary Health Behaviour and conducts in-depth research on science communication amid socio-scientific crises. Her work connects international relations and communication studies through the co-creation of new approaches to navigating scientific uncertainty with policy and media stakeholders.
Her professional experience spans theoretical and practical work in transatlantic contexts, including positions at the Goethe-Institut Washington, DC, the U.S. Embassy Berlin’s Public Diplomacy Section, and a visiting scholar role at the University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Media Engagement at Moody College of Communication.
During her tenure at AGI, Finja will focus on the increasingly prominent scientific uncertainty surrounding socio-scientific issues, exploring its role as political dynamics and agendas shift in Germany and the United States. By synthesizing insights from recent literature and conducting interviews with science-policy practitioners, her project aims to advance understanding of the risks and opportunities uncertainty presents for sustaining transatlantic dialogue on planetary health.
She previously presented her research on the role of scientific uncertainty in science diplomacy efforts as a panelist at the 2024 DWIH Future Forum at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC, and contributed to a corresponding edited volume, currently in press.
(De)Romanticizing Uncertainty at the Transatlantic Science-Policy Interface?
Insights from a U.S.-German Case Study On November 21, 2025, South Carolina became the first U.S. state to sign a Joint Declaration of Intent with Germany, formalizing a new economic …
Finja Augsburg, DAAD/AGI Research Fellow
AGI is pleased to welcome Finja Augsburg as a DAAD/AGI Research Fellow in Fall 2025. Finja Isabel Augsburg is a doctoral researcher and project associate at the University of Erfurt, …
