I conduct ethnographic research on water and the complex relationships between people and water bodies in times of climate change. In the face of increasing drought and water scarcity, I develop relational approaches to rivers, lakes and water infrastructures for new dialogues between hydrology and everyday expertise. I am particularly interested in the collaboration between water management, the public and artistic approaches. This reflects my current work at the TUM Public Science Lab. I am part of the working group ‘Knowledge after Progress’ at the Chair of Anthropology of Science and Technology.
Previously, I was a research and teaching associate at the Institute for European Ethnology and the IRI THESys at HU Berlin. This included research in the transdisciplinary project consortium ‘Climate and Water under Change’ funded by Berlin University Alliance on future imaginaries of hydrosocial territories in Berlin-Brandenburg. This collaboration also let to the podcast ‘Touching Water’, in which we interview representatives from science and society about their access to fluid worlds.
My PhD in Anthropology at LMU Munich in the DFG project ‘Localising global climate change policies in Vanuatu’ dealt with indigenous conceptualisations of climate change in the context of cultivation in the South Pacific island state of Vanuatu. I am part of the EU Horizon 2020 programme FALAH (Family Farming, Food, Lifestyle and Health in the South Pacific). This long-term research resulted in the monograph ‘Moving Lives - Cultivating with Climate Change in Vanuatu’.