Team

Dr. Yvonne Kunz (Vertretungsprofessorin)

Yvonne Kunz is interested in sustainable spatial planning processes with a focus on climate change and biodviersity policies. Her research focuses on access to natural resources int he context of sustainability with a regional focus on Southeast Asia.

kunzy@uni-trier.de | +49 (0)651/201-4550 | Room F177

Christin Weil M.A. (Assistant)
Christin manages the administrative office and takes care of the organizational processes of the department. She is also responsible for answering student questions. Beside that, she is the first contact point for everybody who needs information, certificates or appointments related to the department.
weiluni-trierde | +49 (0)651/201-4551 | Room F176

M.Sc. Toni Adscheid (Doctoral Researcher)
Toni holds a post-graduate degree in Urban and Regional Planning from Stockholm University. His research tries to make sense of human-environmental relations in the context of planetary urbanization. Hereby his focus lies on the political and spatial dimensions of uneven urban development processes.
adscheiduni-trierde| +49 (0)651/201-4637 | Room F179

M.A. Elena Freund
Elena is a doctoral researcher in human geography. In her PhD-project, she focuses on human-nature relations of capitalist crisis management from a feminist political ecology perspective. Elena holds a Bachelor’s degree in Cultural Studies with a minor in Law and a Master’s degree in Cultural Geography. After finishing her studies, she worked for 1,5 years as a research associate in the field of transdisciplinary sustainability research.

freunduni-trierde | +49 (0)651/201-4730 | Room F178

M.A. Emiliano Castillo Jara (Doctoral Researcher, DAAD-Research Scholarship)
Emiliano holds a Master's degree in International Relations from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He is interested in the politics of land and energy, sustainable energy transitions, and climate change policies. Emiliano´s PhD-project looks at the land use conflicts over large-scale tar sands mining in Canada. His research aims at developing a better understanding of how tar sands pipelines shape society-nature relationships across geographical scales. His research also explores the role of resistance movements in transforming Canada's energy landscape.
s6emcastuni-trierde| +49 (0)651/201-4011 | Room H345

Affiliated Scholars to the Team

M.Sc. David Kuhn (Doctoral Candidate at Trier University)
David is based at ISOE in Frankfurt and is part of the REGULATE project. In his doctoral thesis at Trier University he studies hydrosocial groundwater territories.
kuhn@isoe.de

Dr. Fanny Frick-Trzebitzky (Affilliated Researcher)
Fanny is a researcher affiliated to the Lab. Fanny is head of the junior research group REGULATE at ISOE (Institut für sozial-ökologische Forschung) in Frankfurt/Main. She is also teaching in the field of Socio-Hydrology at Trier University.
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Student Assistants

Felix Jost

Felix is a Bachelor of Sciences student specializing in Human Geography. Since December 2024 he supports the work of Dr. Yvonne Kunz as student assistant in her team.

s 6fejost@uni-trier.de