Maternity/parental leave

Academic Career

• Since 01/2023       Researcher for the Chair of Environmental Sociology with a Focus on Socio-Ecological Transformation, Resilience Design and Climate
• 09/2016 - 02/2023   Doctorate at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Thesis: Die unsichtbaren Folgen des Extraktivismus. Ein Blick hinter die slow violence der chilenischen Bergbauindustrie (engl.: The Invisible Consequences of Extractivism. A Look Behind the Slow Violence of the Chilean Mining Industry). Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Stephan Lessenich, PD Dr. Stefan Schmalz
• 09/2017–04/2022    Doctoral scholarship from the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
• 09/2020–09/2021    Maternity and parental leave
• 03/2016–12/2019    Associate Researcher within the thematic network Patagonia (DAAD) at the Institute of Sociology (IfS), Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU Jena)
• 02/2018–06/2018    Researcher for a research project on the Working and Health Conditions of Traditional Shellfish Divers in Southern Chile at the Institute for Sociology, Ludwig-Maxiimilians-Universität München
• 01/2016–12/2016    Junior Fellow at the DFG-funded Research Group on Post-Growth Societies, FSU Jena
• 03/2010–03/2015    Degree in Sociology at the Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile (equivalent to Bachelor’s and Master’s degree)
• 01/2014–12/2014    Associate Researcher and Research Assistant at the Universidad Alberto Hurtado as part of the research project Gobernando desechos: un análisis sociotécnico de prácticas y políticas respecto del manejo de relaves mineros en Chile led by Prof. Dr. Sebastián Ureta         
• 03/2013–12/2014    Research Assistant and tutor at the Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile
• 09/2008–09/2009    Bachelor’s degree in Sociology at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität in Heidelberg

• Political ecology
• Global socio-ecological inequalities
• Extractivism
• Socio-ecological conflicts
• Decolonial perspectives
• Slow violence and sociology of ignorance
• Qualitative research methodology
• Socio-ecological transformation
• Global material flows and the international division of labour
• National and international power relations
• Climate adaptation and climate resilience