I am a Research & Teaching Associate at the Institute for Ecological Economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria. Currently, I am also working as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, in the project Open4ET – Open Organising for Energy Transition, which investigates the potentials and barriers of participatory governance models for addressing energy transition with an Austrian case study.

My research investigates the potential of community-led initiatives to contribute to the development of sustainable local economies and community-led social provisioning processes. More particularly, I aim to explore possibilities for collaborations between community-led initiatives, local policy makers and non-activist citizens. My further research interests include degrowth, social solidarity economy, deliberative democracy, social ecological transformation, critical realism, and multicriteria mapping.