Parto Teherani-Krönner, a social scientist, taught in the Department of Gender & Globalization at the Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture and was a visiting researcher at the Faculty of Life Sciences at Humboldt University in Berlin. She completed her master’s degree in Agricultural Sociology and her doctorate in Environmental Sociology. Since the early 1990s, she has developed the field of women’s and gender studies in rural areas. Her research areas included the socio-cultural dimensions of sustainable development, gender dimensions of agricultural policy, and the cultural ecology of meals and food security. She has conducted multiple field studies in Iran, Sudan, and Germany. Over the past decade, she organized international summer schools in Omdurman, Sudan, and Berlin, Germany, with a majority of participants from African and Asian countries. In 2015 and 2016, she co-organized the Summer University in Emmendingen near Freiburg on the topics of “Future Food Sustainability” and “The Future of Sustainable Food Business.”
Since 2013, she has served as a scientific advisor for the BMBF project HORTINLEA (Diversifying Food Systems. Horticultural Innovations and Learning for Improved Nutrition and Livelihood in East Africa). She supervised projects on gender perspectives (SP 10) and meal culture (SP 7) related to East African leafy vegetables.
Parto was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Society for Human Ecology, a member of the Berlin Committee for UNESCO Work, and on the board of the German-Iranian Friendship Association.