Curriculum Vitae

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Current Position

Postdoctoral Researcher · Chair for International Political Economy and Environmental Politics, D-GESS, ETH Zurich (2025–present)

Previous Positions

  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Chair for Global Health Engineering, D-MAVT, ETH Zurich (2023–2025)
  • Visiting Researcher, Climate School, Columbia University, New York (2023)

Education

  • PhD Political Science, Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS), ETH Zurich (2023) Thesis: When the river breaks the land: Environmental (im)mobility among rural households in Bangladesh Committee: Prof. Dr. Vally Koubi, Prof. Dr. Lukas Rudolph, Dr. Alex de Sherbinin, Prof. Dr. Nina von Uexkull
  • M.Sc. Science, Technology and Policy, ETH Zurich (2020)
  • M.Sc. Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich (2018)
  • B.Sc. Environmental Sciences and Technology, TU Berlin (2016)

Research Interests

Environmental migration · Climate change adaptation · Disaster risk communication · Sustainable sanitation · Air pollution · Transformative and transdisciplinary science

Selected Awards & Funding

  • ETH Zurich Career Seed Award, Citizen Responses to Local Air Pollution Information in Bangladesh, CHF 30,000 (2026–2027)
  • PPE Young Scholars Award for Social and Institutional Change, Witten/Herdecke University (2025)
  • Jury Distinction, SNSF Scientific Image Competition 2024 — When the river breaks the land
  • Special Mention (Non-Fiction), Earth 360° Fest, BYEI — documentary Eroding Horizons (2024)
  • SNSF PhD Scholarship, Project Climate Risk, Land Loss, and Migration: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in Bangladesh (2019–2023)
  • DAAD Graduate Scholarship (2016–2018)

Field Research

  • Bangladesh (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2026)
  • Pakistan (2026)
  • Malawi (2018)
  • South Africa (2015)

Professional Activities

Languages

German (native) · English (C2) · Dutch (C2) · French (C1) · Spanish (B2) · Arabic (A2) · Bangla (A1) · Hindi (A1) · Portuguese (A1)

For the full list of publications, teaching, workshops, and conference presentations, please download the PDF above or visit the Research and Teaching pages.