About

Dr. Anna S. Antonova is a researcher, project manager, and 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. Until early 2026, 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.

As a researcher, her expertise lies in analyzing societal transformations and environmental governance in the EU using a variety of methods and approaches, including policy analysis, in-depth interviews, living labs, spatial analysis (ArcGIS), Q method, surveys, document and archival research, and knowledge co-production. She has taught methods and research design at the master's level. Additionally, her teaching has spanned various classes in the broad environment and society spectrum, including among others seminars on common property and environmental justice, critical tourism studies, and the MA introductory course to environment and society.

Anna was previously a Marie Skłodowska-Curie research fellow as part of the ENHANCE ITN network at the University of Leeds, where she wrote her doctoral dissertation conducting fieldwork on the Yorkshire North Sea and Bulgarian Black Sea coastlines.