Curriculum

Annika is a sustainability scientist by training. She is a postdoctoral researcher at Leuphana College since July 2018, where she coordinates the "sustainability & responsibility" module for first-year students. Her research there focuses on the interdisciplinary study entry phase of the Leuphana Semester as well as transdisciplinary processes of learning and working at the science-society interface - particularly in the research project "City of the Future Lüneburg 2030+". 

She has been part of the transdisciplinary sustainability research lab (IETSR) since 2013 and is affiliated with the Institute for Sustainable Development and Learning (ISDL) since 2019. Her PhD research dealt with the transformative potential of strategic approaches towards more sustainable metal use with a specific focus on temporal diversity. Within the Lüneburg 2030+ project, she designed and accompanied the transdisciplinary work process from developing visions to the creation of concrete ideas and solutions and their experimentation in real-world labs. In the current project phase III her work focuses on connecting the implementation of solutions in experiments with inter- and transdisciplinary teaching at Leuphana. 

She teaches transdisciplinary project courses in the Bachelor and Master programs and offers method support with formative scenario analyses and sustainability assessments. In the Leuphana Semester and complementary studies program she connects her research within the Lüneburg 2030+ project with practice-oriented teaching formats. 

Curriculum Vitae

• since July 2018: Postdoctoral researcher at Leuphana College and Coordinator of the "Responsibility and Sustainability" module
• April 2017 to June 2018: research fellow in the project "City of the Future - Lüneburg 2030+"
• 2015 - 2017: PhD scholarship within the 2042 research initiative: "Time matters. Unlocking the transformative potential of strategic approaches towards a more sustainable metal use"
• since 2013: research fellow at the transdisciplinary sustainability research lab 
• 2011 - 2014: member of the module team - Responsibility & Sustainability (Leuphana Semester) 
• 2009 - 2012: Master of Science "Sustainability Science" (Leuphana University Lüneburg); thesis: 'Dealing with Indium Criticality - Relating Technology Options and Governance Interventions as a  Contribution towards a Sustainable Indium Use'
• 2005 - 2009: Bachelor of Laws "Business and Environmental Law" (University of Applied Sciences Trier)

Research interests

• transformation and transformative research, solution-orientation
• transdisciplinary sustainability research 
• change processes (and their relation to time)
• sustainable resource use with a focus on (critical) metals
• multi-level (resource) strategies and their interactions
• systems thinking, formative scenario analysis, sustainability assessment, visioning