Academic career

• Since 10/2022 Full Professor of Environmental Sociology with a Focus on Socio-Ecological Transformation, Resilience Design and Climate
• Since 01/2021 initially Head and now Associate Researcher [CHW1] of the Junior Research Team (JRT3) “Ownership of Genetic Resources. On the Appropriation of Traditional Knowledge in the Bioeconomy” within the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 294 “Structural Change of Property” at the Institute of Sociology (IfS), Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU Jena)
• 02/2018–01/2019 Maternity and parental leave
• 09/2017–09/2022 Junior Professor, “Global Inequalities and Socio-Ecological Change”, IfS, FSU Jena
• 07/2016–07/2022 Head of the Junior Research Group “Bioeconomy and Inequalities. Transnational Entanglements and Interdependencies in the Bioenergy Sector” (BioInequalities), IfS, FSU Jena
• 01/2016–06/2016 Scientific Director of the Research Group “Land Grabbing, Acceleration, Activation. Dynamics and (De)stabilisation of Modern Growth Societies” (Research Group on Post-Growth Societies), IfS, FSU Jena
• 11/2015–03/2016 Researcher at the Department of Labour, Industrial and Economic Sociology, IfS, FSU Jena
• 02/2015–10/2015 Senior Researcher at Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (ABI), Freiburg
• 11/2013–10/2014 Researcher at the Institute of Sociology, Institute for Latin American Studies (LAI), Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin)
• 03/2014 Doctorate at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, FU Berlin. Thesis: Grüne Landnahme. Palmölexpansion und Landkonflikte in Amazonien (engl.: Green Grabbing. Palm Oil Expansion and Land Conflicts in the Amazon Basin)
• 10/2009–10/2013 Doctoral Researcher for the Junior Research Project (funded by the BMBF) “Fair Fuels? Between dead end and energy transition: A socio-ecological multi-level analysis of transnational biofuel policy”, LAI, FU Berlin
• 02/2006 Bachelor’s degree in Sociology, FU Berlin

Extramural activities

• 07/2008–10/2009 Project Manager in the “Programme Office for Environmental and Social Standards” at the German development agency Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Eschborn
• 02/2007–06/2008 Desk Officer in “Division 312 Environment and Sustainable Use of Natural Resources”, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Bonn

Junior Research Group “Bioeconomy and Inequalities. Transnational Entanglements and Interdependencies in the Bioenergy Sector” (BioInequalities)

Duration: 01.07.2016–31.07.2022
Grant number: 031B0021
Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as part of the funding programme “Bioeconomy as Social Change 4+1”.

link to the project

Summer term 2024

research semester

Winter term 2023/24

S: Die Inwertsetzung der Natur

S: Globale soziale Ungleichheiten

S: Klimagerechtigkeit

GK: Grundlagen soziologischen Denkens

Ü: Übung für Abschlussarbeiten

Summer term 2023

S: Feministische Perspektiven auf die sozial-ökologische Krise

S: Klimaresilienz

S: Nachhaltige Entwicklung

GK: Theorie/Sozialstruktur/Gegenwartsdiagnosen F: sozial-ökologische Transformation

Ü: BA/MA

Winter term 2022/23

S: Die deutsche Soziologie dekolonisieren? Einführung in die dekoloniale Debatte

S: Inwertsetzung. Landnahme oder Einhegung? Divergierende Interpretationen der sog. ursprünglichen Akkumulation