Research foci
- Intersectional food environment analysis (with a focus on gender)
- Digital, sustainable, and corporeal (affective) dietary dynamics
- Everyday practices & slow violence
- Agri-food systems & regimes
- Food movements
CV
Professional experience
2025 Project coordinator NutriAIDE
2022 PhD Candidate / Researcher and Teacher, Urban Climate Resilience, Center for Climate Resilience (CCR) University of Augsburg
2019 Research Assistant for National Geographic and New York Times articles with Nadia Shira Cohen
2018/19 Maya Grassroots NGO of Indigenous Communities in Campeche, Mexico
Qualifications
2025 Doctoral Thesis submission (for obtaining a Dr. rer. nat.)
2023 Certificate University Teaching by the Bavarian Universities and Theme Cetificate Inclusive University Teaching
2021 Master in Interdisciplinary Latein America Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin
2017 Bachelor in Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin
2016 University Studies Abroad, Havana University Cuba
2014 Abitur, Freie Waldorfschule Tübingen
2012 High School Diploma (Honors Role), Frankfort Senior High School
2010 Programme Voltaire, Bundestag/Assemblée Nationale
Stipends
2025 Equal Opportunity Scholarship for the support of a research assistant
2024-25 Equal Opportunity Scholarship for doctoral research in Mexico
2024 Erasmus+ Training Mobility for international exchange in teaching
2024 Early Career Scholarship at the University of Augsburg for one conference
2024 Women's Advancement Scholarship at the Faculty of Applied Computer Science for two conferences
2023 Women's Advancement Scholarship at the Faculty of Applied Computer Science for a total of three conferences
2022 Equal Opportunity Scholarship for doctoral research in Mexico
2021 DAAD Mobility Scholarship for master's research in Mexico
Memberships and volunteering
2025 Indian Sociological Society (ISS) - Group Food, Culture and Society
2024 Young and Emerging Scholars (YES!) International Geographical Union (IGU) - Commission Gender & Geography
2023 Verband für Geographie an deutschsprachigen Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen (VGDH)
2021 Ernst-Reutter-Gesellschaft der Freien Universität Berlin
2019 Komitee jährliches Kulturfestival “Hanal Balam“ zum Tag der Toten, Yucatán
2013 Youth For Understandung (YFU) Deutschland
Publications
-> Scientific Articles:
- Die Erde, Special Issue Food Justice (2025, in print)
Open Access: Disrupting Colonial Trauma Through the Hyperconsumption of Outside Foods in India? A Digital Food Consumer Citizenship
- Ichan Tecolotl
Open Access (Spanish Language Article): El sufrimiento socioambiental por la muerte de abejas como eje de la movilización colectiva maya en Hopelchén, Península de Yucatán
- Social & Cultural Geography
Open Access: From the Wealthy-Healthy-Chubby Nexus to Outside Foods - Changing Food Consumption Practices in India and Mexico
- Geographien Südasiens (2025) + Editorial Team
Open Access: Digital Food Consumer Citizenship Beyond The Indian State
- Geographien Südasiens (2024)
-Single Author
Open Access: Urban food environments in India and Mexico
- Die Erde (2023)
-First Author
- Leibniz Sozietät (2019)
- Second Author (German Language Article)
In "Migration und Interkulturalität. Theorien - Methoden - Praxisbezüge", Ed. K. Störl
-> Media Articles:
- New York Times (2025)
- research assistance
"
The Mennonite Colony That Made a Deal With a Diamond Company"
(Cover Story Print Version June 24, 2025)
- National Geographic (2021)
- research assistance
"Cultivos de la discordia en Campeche. Mayas y menonitas colisionan por la tierra y su futuro"
(Cover Story in the Print Version Latin America, June 2021)
- National Geographic (2019)
- research assistance
" An unlikely feud between beekeepers and Mennonites simmers in Mexico"
(Online, World Press Awards 2019: Second place environmental reportage)
-> Reviewing:
National Geographic
DIE ERDE
Geographien Südasiens
-> Past Public Presentations:
- Tropentag an der Universität für Bodenkultur (BOKU) Wien 2024 - NutriAIDE - Building smart food environments for improved nutrition: Insights from research in India, with Markus Keck
- Congress of the International Geographical Union Dublin 2024 - Change in Urban Food Environments: Unraveling Dynamics of Digitalization, Corporeality, and Platform Power
- Gender Commission of the International Geographical Union Dublin 2024 - Slow violence in app-food-body assemblages: reading digital food environments through feminist lenses
- Food Conference Perugia 2024 - Digital Food Geographies: Hybrid Affects In a Food-App-Human Assemblage
- Summer School 'Critical Social Science Perspectives on Climate Change' of the Center for Climate Resilience (CCR) Augsburg 2024 - Gender and Affect in an App-Food-Human Assemblage
- Neue Kulturgeographie (NKG) Münster 2024 - Space-Time-Sustainability (STS) Cubes: An Urban Political Ecology of Food Environment Research, with Katharina Gröne and Sebastian Purwins
- AK Agri-Food meets AK Geographische Handelsforschung Würzburg 2024 - STS Cubes: Food Environment Visualization with Space Time Sustainability (STS) Cubes
- AK Südasien Augsburg 2024 - Disrupting Colonial Trauma through the Hyper Consumption of Outside Foods in India? A Digital Food Consumer Citizenship
- DKG Frankfurt 2023 - 'Healthy-Wealthy-Chubby' and 'Outside Foods' in Urban Food Environments : Evidence from India and Mexico
- ECPR Prag 2023 - Panel "Local Pathways to Sustainable Foodsystems" - An app-based approach to transforming unhealthy consumption practices and unsustainable food systems : 'Healthy-Wealthy-Chubby' and 'Outside Foods' in Urban Food Environments
- Umweltbildungszentrum Augsburg 2023 - Aufbau smarter Ernährungsumfelder für gesunde und nachhaltige Ernährung - Einblicke aus Indien und Mexiko
- AK Südasien Berlin 2023 - 'Healthy-Wealthy-Chubby' and 'Outside Foods' in New Urban Food Environments : Evidence from India and Mexico
-> Organisation:
- Neue Kulturgeographie (NKG) 2025 "Sepculative Geographies of the New Climate Regime" https://kulturgeographie.org
- Summer School Center for Climate Resilience (CCR) 2024 "Critical social science perspectives on climate change: Governmentality, Political Ecology, and New Materialism"
- Interactive Science Fair Contributions at the Long Night of Science (LNDW, German Accronym) Augsburg
- Specialty Group Meeting South Asia Augsburg 2024