Niklas Hoffmann-Walbeck was program assistant in the Literature and Humanities department at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) from 2017 to 2022, focusing on Anthropocene-related research projects, publications, and events. Most recently, he has served as scientific coordinator for HKW’s “Evidence & Experiment” project. He works as a curator, author, and translator: together with Janek Müller he was artistic director of the “Heat Cold Devices” (2018–19) project, and his German translation of Robert Byron’s The Station was published by Die Andere Bibliothek in 2020.