About

My career path has started from a practical technical background, completing an apprenticeship in roof construction. Engaging increasingly in nature conservation in different world regions brought me to do bachelor’s studies in Biology and master’s studies in Social Ecology, both in Vienna, Austria. For my master’s thesis I spent a year Mumbai, India, where I conducted a socio-metabolic study on the manufacturing of clay bricks burnt from fertile agricultural soil to be used for stock expansion in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. In November 2021 I completed my PhD at the Institute of Social Ecology in Vienna, in which I have been dealing with a sociometabolic long-term assessment for the Greek island of Samothraki. As co-coordinator of a transdisciplinary project that built the framework for my PhD, I have been intensively engaged with a comprehensive socioecological system analysis of this island community plus practical transition management in collaboration with many partners. Since July 2021 I work at Labscape in an Erasmus+ project on the role of social capital for sustainable rural development. Due to my approved FCT application, I will be increasingly focusing at sociometabolic implications of rapid land use intensification processes in the vicinity of hydrological megaprojects in southern Portugal.