Academic qualification

Since 11/2022 Research assistant and doctoral candidate at the Chair for Political Science with a specialization in climate politics at the University of Augsburg

09/2022 M.A. in Environmental Ethics from the University of Augsburg – Master's thesis on “Holistically responsible? An empirical investigation of corporate social responsibility practices in social enterprises”

2020 Research assistant at the Center for Interdisciplinary Health Research at the University of Augsburg (June-September)

2019 Semester abroad at the Universidad de Guadalajara (Mexico) in the field of social sciences

09/2018 B.A. in International Cultural Business Studies from the University of Passau – Bachelor's thesis on “Expatriates as Boundary Spanners – A Systematic Literature Review of Functions and Competencies in an Intercultural Context”       

2016/2017 Semester abroad at the University of Granada (Spain) in the field of social sciences

Research stays

June 2025 Academic exchange at the Multidisciplinary Research Center on Chiapas and the Southern Border (CIMSUR) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, San Cristóbal de las Casas (Mexico)

June 2023, -24, -25 Participatory observation and interviews with delegates at the UN intersessional meetings on the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Bonn (Germany)

February, March 2024 Participatory observation and i.a. focus group interviews as a research intern with a civil society organization, Central America

December 2023 Participatory observation and interviews with delegates at the UN climate conference COP28 with Angela Oels, Dubai (UAE) 

Scholarships

2025  Women’s Advancement Scholarship at the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences for the research stay at the intersessional climate negotiations, Bonn

2025 Funding of the Graduate School for Humanities and Social Science for the networking stay and conference participation in Mexico

2024 Funding for early-career researchers of the University of Augsburg for the scientific presentation at the EnJust Network Conference, Hamburg

2024 Erasmus+ Training Mobility for the participation at the political ecology workshop and network conference, Lund

2024 Scholarship of the Office for Equal Opportunities for the research stay in Central America

2023 Funding of the Graduate School for Humanities and Social Science for the research and networking stay at COP28, Dubai

2023 Women’s Advancement Scholarship at the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences for the participation at the ‘Berliner Methodentreffen’

Organizational milestones

2025 Co-organization of the German Climate Consortium's interdisciplinary symposium (for 100 people) “Implementation crisis in climate mitigation and adaptation and possible solutions: Social science perspectives on freedom, democracy, and transformation” at the Centre for Climate Resilience (University of Augsburg), funded by the BMBF

2024 Co-organization of the summer school “Critical social science perspectives on climate change: Governmentality, Political Ecology, and New Materialism” at the Center for Climate Resilience (University of Augsburg)

Research Articles

Fischer, Marie/Oels, Angela (submitted) “More than an Empty Bucket? The Discursive Struggle About the Operationalization of the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage”. Paper accepted for a special issue “20 Years of Climate Governmentality Studies: Taking Stock of Power, Discourse, and Technologies of Government in the Paris Era” of the journal Global Environmental Politics.

Scientific presentations

• AMEI-ISA Conference in Huatulco, Mexico – Fischer, Marie/Oels, Angela “More than an empty bucket? The Cli-Mentality of the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage and the discourse coalitions competing in its set-up” and Fischer, Marie “Resisting or Persisting in the Climate Regime? A Latin American Case Study on Civil Society Organizations’ Counter-Conduct on Loss and Damage” - June 2025
• Virtual authors workshop for the Special Issue “20 Years of Climate Governmentality Studies: Taking Stock of Power, Discourse, and Technologies of Government in the Paris Era” – Fischer, Marie/ Oels, Angela “More than an Empty Bucket? The Discursive Struggle About the Operationalization of the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage” - May 2025
• EnJust Network Conference in Hamburg – “Resisting or Persisting in the Climate Regime? A Latin American Case Study on Civil Society Organizations’ Counter-Conduct on Loss and Damage” - November 2024
• POLLEN Network Conference in Lund, Sweden – Fischer, Marie/Oels, Angela “Charity or polluter-pays? The discursive struggle about climate justice in the operationalization of the new fund on Loss & Damage” - June 2024
• Interdisciplinary summer school “Critical Social Science Perspectives on Climate Change: Governmentality, Political Ecology, and New Materialism” in Stadtbergen – Fischer, Marie/Oels, Angela “Charity or polluter-pays? The discursive struggle about climate justice in the operationalization of the new fund on Loss & Damage” - May 2024
• Brownbag seminar series of the Centre for Climate Resilience – “The discursive struggle over the Loss and Damage Fund at COP28” - January 2024

Science communication

• Workshop at the LCOY youth climate conference in Lüneburg – Marie Fischer and Alina Kaltenberg „Cut, Paste, Resist! Visualizing Climate Discourses” (forthcoming) - October 2025
• Talk at the Long Night of Science in Augsburg – Marie Fischer and Angela Oels “Report from the UN Climate Change Conference COP28 in Dubai: A look behind the scenes”- May 2024
• Own workshop offerings for the Public Climate School at the University of Augsburg in 2024 and 2025
• Lecture in the seminar of the Bavarian Study Support Program for students from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe “27th Climate Conference 2022 in Sharm El-Sheikh – History, Results, and Analysis”- December 2022