Curriculum Vitae

Education

2000
Dr. phil. Social Anthropology, University of Hamburg
Thesis Title: "'Hängt die Grünen!': Umwelt, nachhaltige Entwicklung und ökologischer Diskurs" ("'Hang the Greens!': Environment, Sustainable Development and Ecological Discourse") (2001, Berlin: Reimer Verlag)
1987
M.A. Cultural Anthropology, University of Hamburg
Thesis Title: "Volkskundliche und völkerkundliche Arbeiten zur Erforschung des Schweizer Alpenraumes" ("Comparison of Folkloric and Anthropological Studies in the Swiss Alpine Region")

Positions

2018
Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center, LMU Munich.
seit 2017
artec Sustainability Research Center, University of Bremen
2014
Participating Researcher CliSAP: Understanding Science in Interaction
since 2010
Researcher, Helmholtz Zentrum Geesthacht, Institut für Küstenforschung
2014
Contributing author of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report, Working Group 2 AR5.
2005–2010
Adj. assoc. Professor Dept of Germanic Studies, University of Texas at Austin (DAAD)
2008
visiting professor at KlimaCampus Hamburg / Center for Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Hamburg (July to December 2008)
2004–2005
Research Fellow GKSS – Institute for Coastal Research, Geesthacht
2001–2004
Research Fellow University of Hamburg
1997–2000
Research Fellow University of Hamburg / ISCTE Lisbon
since 1996
Lecturer at University of Hamburg et al.

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