Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae
Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society
LMU Munich
LMU Munich principle investigator and consortium co-investigator for the €6 mill. Horizon Europe consortium project EmpowerUs (coordinated by NRI in Norway)
Team lead for the Bulgarian Transition Coastal Lab in Burgas on the Black Sea coast, responsible for developing & delivering co-productive research
Close collaborative work with the environmental nongovernmental organization Bulgarian Biodiversity Foundation
Lead author for a key peer-reviewed comparative empirical research report across all six Transition Coastal Labs
Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society
LMU Munich
Project management, budget oversight & team co-lead for the "Strengthening Environmental Humanities" Volkswagen Foundation project (€1 mill.)
Designed, developed & legally established master's program "Environment and Society" at LMU Munich in cooperation with 8 faculties & over 20 departments across the university
Program development, management of strategic partnerships & event planning oversight for the "One Book - Many Worlds: Munich Reads Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh" 2024-2025 initiative, including events with world-renouned author Amitav Ghosh at Literaturhaus München, LMU Munich and Ökologisches Bildungszentrum München
University of Leeds
Schools of Earth & Environment and English
PhD thesis "Transformations, crises, and contestations in narratives about environment and society on the Yorkshire North Sea and Bulgarian Black Sea coasts", supervised by Dr Fiona Becket (School of English) and Dr Jouni Paavola (School of Earth & Environment).
University of Rhode Island
Department of Marine Affairs
Williams College
English & Maritime Studies (including the Williams-Mystic Maritime Studies Program in Spring 2010)