New Fellow: Melanie Pichler

28 March 2022

From April to June 2022, Dr. Melanie Pichler will be a visiting scholar at the Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies "Futures of Sustainability". Melanie Pichler is a political scientist at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, and conducts research in an interdisciplinary environment on political dimensions (power, interests, conflicts, strategies) of socio-ecological transformation processes. Empirically, she works, for example, on conflicts over reforestation in Laos or on possibilities and obstacles of a climate-friendly transformation of the (Austrian) car industry - with a focus on the employees. In teaching, she focuses on political ecology, environmental justice and resource conflicts, among others.

Welcome to Hamburg!