Full CV
Currently
Hotpost 30 Project manager
Since 2008
Senior researcher and lecturer
Geography and Geology Institute, University Greifswald, Germany
2024 – 2020
Project leader “Social acceptance of ecosystem-friendly and ecosystem supporting coastal protection adaptation for the German Baltic Sea Coast” (part of the collaborative ECAS-BALTIC Project)
Funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF)
2019 – 2016
Project leader “Peasant farmer livelihood strategies as driver and outcome of socio-ecological transformations in Mexico and Bolivia”
Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
2015 – 2013
Käthe Kluth research fellowship (University of Greifswald)
2015 – 2011
Project “Coastal Land Management: Trade-offs in Ecosystem Services” (COMTESS)
Funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF)
2011 – 2010
Project “Integrated Management of Biosphere Reserves in Mexico and Germany”
Funded by the German Academic Exchange Service under the PROALMEX ramework (DAAD)
2010 – 2006
Project “Governance of Biodiversity” (GOBI) Project
Funded by the Robert Bosch Foundation
2004 – 2001
Senior researcher
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany
Project “Advanced Terrestrial Ecosystem Analysis and Modelling” (ATEAM) Funded under the 5th EU-Research Framework
Project “Dynamic and interactive assessment of national, regional and global vulnerability of coastal zones to climate change and sea-level rise” (DINAS-COAST)
Funded under the 5th EU-Research Framework
Project “Environmental Vulnerability Assessment” (EVA)
Funded under the 5th EU-Research Framework
2001 – 1999
Postdoctoral research fellow
Flood Hazard Research Centre, Middlesex University, London, UK
Project “Synthesis and Upscaling of Sea-level Rise Vulnerability Assessment Studies” (SURVAS)
Funded under the 4th EU Research Framework
1997
Research Assistant
National Museums of Scotland / Coventry University, Coventry, UK
1997 – 1993
Part-time Lecturer, Coventry University, Coventry, UK
2008 – 2006
Master of Arts ‘Intercultural Conflict Management’
Alice-Salomon University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany
1998 – 1993
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Quaternary palaeoecology and coastal geomorphology
Coventry University, Coventry, UK
1993 – 1992
Maîtrise de Géographie in Quaternary sedimentology and geomorphology Université Joseph Fourier, France
(during an ERASMUS-stay at University College Dublin, Ireland)
1992 –1989
Licence de Géographie (Physical and human geography)
Institut de Géographie Alpine, Université Joseph Fourier / Lycée Champollion, Grenoble, France
1989
Baccalauréat Série B (Social sciences A Levels)
Lycée du Grésivaudan, Grenoble, France
19.02.2020 – 7.10.2019
EU-Fundraising und Projektmanagement, EUFRAK EuroConsults, Berlin
2007 – 2005
A number of courses on communication, conflict management, mediation and fundraising (Alice-Salomon-Hochschule, Berlin)
2018
Member of the Environmental Social Science Review Panel, Academy of Finland, Research Council for Culture and Society, 15th-16th February 2018, Helsinki, Finland
Since 2017
Treasurer of the Civil Association Partner Südmexikos e.V.
Since 2014
Mentor in different mentoring programs for young female scientists
2004
Internal reviewer of research project proposals at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
I routinely act as a reviewer for a number of peer review journals, including:
Ambio, Die Erde, Ecology & Society, Geocrítica, Journal of Coastal Research, Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, Journal of Land Use Science, Nature – Scientific reports, Regional Environmental Change, Sustainability Science.
At Greifswald University:
2019/2020
“Sustainable land management”
(Seminar, MSc Sustainability Geography – in German)
2018/2019
„Protected area management“
(Seminar, MSc Sustainability Geography – in German)
2015/2017
“Regional geography of selected developing countries: Bolivia and Madagascar.”
In collaboration with Dr. Nadine Fritz-Vietta and Maren Wesselow
(Seminar, MSc Sustainability Geography – in German)
2008 – 2015
Regional geography of Latin America”
(Seminar, MSc Sustainability Geography, Geography Diploma – in German)
2008 – 2014
“Vulnerability and adaptation to global environmental change”
(Seminar, MSc Sustainability Geography, Geography Diploma – in German)
2009 – 2013
Individual sessions of the Diploma and MSc – Geography Colloquium – in German)
2011
“Nature conservation from the perspective of political ecology – Examples from Mexico und Germany”
(Seminar, MSc Sustainability Geography – in German)
2009, 2010, 2014
“Protected area management in Mexico”
Lecture within the “Protected Area Management” series, led by Prof. Dr. Stoll-Kleemann – in German)
At other universities:
2013
Role play on water, forest and biodiversity management
(Seminar, MSc Global Change Management, led Prof. Dr. Welp Hochschule für nachhaltige Entwicklung Eberswalde (HNE), Eberswalde (in German).
2010 – 2012
“Participation processes and acceptance problems in protected areas”,
“Community-based resource management”
Lectures and seminars during the UNEP/UNESCO/BMU Summer school “Environmental Management- Social aspects of biodiversity conservation“
International Academy for Nature Conservation: Vilm, Rügen (in English)
2010 – 2011
“Global environmental change – causes and consequences”
“Community management of natural resources”
“Coastal vulnerability and adaptation to climate change”
Lectures in the “Environmental change and natural resource management” series, led by Dr. L. Brenner
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana – Iztapalapa: México (in Spanish)
2010
“Protected Area Management”
Lecture and seminar series at the Hue University of Agriculture and Forestry, Hanoi University of Education und Hong Duc University (Thanh Hoa): Vietnam (in English)
2009
“Stakeholder dialogue in natural resource management”
Lecture and seminar at the International DAAD Alumni Summer School, 23th – 30th March 2009, International Academy for Nature Conservation: Vilm, Rügen (in English)
2008 – 2007
“Climate change and sea-level rise impacts in coastal zones”
“Adaptation and integrated coastal zone management”
“Public participation”
Lectures and seminar in Series “Socio-economic, institutional and legal dimensions of global change”, MSc Global Change Management“ led by Prof. Dr. Welp
Hochschule für nachhaltige Entwicklung Eberswalde (HNE): Eberswalde (in English)
2005, 2003
“Theory and practise in science based stakeholder dialogue”
Lecture and seminar during the 1st and 2nd AVEC (“Integrated Assessment of Vulnerable Ecosystem under Global Change”)
Summer schools, led by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Cramer, Peyresq: France (in English)
2001 – 2000
“Costal zone management”
Lecture series, seminar and excursion (Bsc and Msc, Geography, Middlesex University, London, UK)
1997 – 1993
“Society and Nature” (Seminar BSc Geography, Coventry University, UK)
1997 – 1993
“Physical Geography” (Seminar BSc Geography, Coventry University, UK)
1996 – 1995
“Hydrology.” Excursion und Practical work (Seminar BSc Geography, Coventry University, UK)
I regularly supervise undergraduate and postgraduate theses on the following topics.
Driver of global environmental change
- Drivers and processes of Land Use / Land Cover
- Extractivism
- Demographic transformations
Climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation
- Climate mitigation and adaptation (energy efficiency)
- Vulnerability and adaptation in coastal areas, in tourism and agriculture
- Impacts of global environmental change on biodiversity
- Ecosystem services assessment
- Societal acceptance of conservation and coastal adaptation, in particular managed realignment
Sustainable development
- Transition towards sustainability
- Protected area and natural resource management
- Alternative income generation (ecotourism, payment for ecosystem services)
- Agro-ecological systems
- Organic and fair trade cooperative and markets
- Agricultural and food policy
- Local food systems, food security / sovereignty
- Regional value chains
- Buen Vivir and potential relevance in Germany
Governance, participation & education
- Environmental conflicts and protest movements
- Environmental governance and justice
- Environmental perceptions and attitudes (climate change, landscape)
- Participation processes in environmental issues (Stakeholder dialogue, public participation)