Dr. Anna S. Antonova is currently a Change! Fellow and the Principal Investigator for the five-year transdisciplinary research group "Convivial Waterfronts," based at the TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology. Previously she was director of environmental humanities development at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC) at LMU Munich and Co-I and academic lead for the Bulgarian Black Sea Transition Coastal Laboratory in the Horizon Europe consortium EmpowerUs. Throughout her academic career, she has gained extensive experience with managing diverse and complex projects across research, outreach, and administration, including the design, development, and legal establishment of an interdisciplinary MA program at LMU Munich.