ACADEMIC TRAINING

10/2015 – ongoing

Doctoral Researcher, “WIPCAD-Wicked Problems, Contested Administrations: Knowledge, Coordination, and Strategy” DFG-Research Training Group, Department of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Potsdam

• Dr. rer. pol. (expected)

09/2013 – 09/2014

Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), VU University Amsterdam

• M.Sc. in Environment and Resource Management

09/2008 – 08/2013

French-German double degree at the Albert-Ludwigs University in Freiburg-im-Breisgau and the Grande Ecole Sciences Po Aix in Aix-en-Provence

• B.A. and M.A. in Applied Political Sciences of the University Freiburg
• M.A. in International Relations and Diploma of Sciences Po Aix

06/2008

Lycée Beaussier, La Seyne-sur-Mer, France

French secondary school diploma (Baccalauréat) with specialization in earth and life sciences and voluntary option in plastic arts and art history

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

10/2015 – ongoing

University of Potsdam, Department of Economics and Social Sciences with Prof. Dr. Harald Fuhr and Prof. Dr. Kristine Kern

12/2014 – 05/2015

GIZ Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH, Berlin, Technical Support Unit of the NAMA Facility with Trudy Könemund

02/2013 – 06/2013

United Nations Secretariat for the Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal, Marine and Coastal Biodiversity with Jihyun Lee (PhD)

09/2010 – 02/2011

Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nuclear Safety and Nature Conservation, Berlin, International Climate Protection with Nicole Wilke

SCHOLARSHIPS

• 2015 – 2018: German Research Foundation (DFG)
• 2008 – 2013: French-German University (DFH-UFA)

The sustainable management of carbon sinks has received significant attention in global climate governance. The discussions however largely focused on terrestrial sinks and appear to have neglected coastal carbon sinks such as mangroves, sea grasses and salt marshes.This constitutes a puzzling observation considering the widespread distribution, progressing loss and high estimated mitigation potential of these ecosystems. Addressing this puzzle, this dissertation will examine the issue’s emergence on the international climate change mitigation agenda with a special focus on mapping the structure of the organizational field. It will hereby examine the temporal evolution of the production and utilization of knowledge on coastal carbon with the explicit aim is to uncover the role of public organizations in these processes. A central objective will be to determine whether, when and how sizeable communities formed around the issue in academic and policy circles and to what extent they are linked. In essence, this dissertation deals with the construction of coastal ecosystems as a climate change mitigation issue.