Since 2022

Director, Social Learning and Environmental Governance Lab, ZIRS, MLU Halle

Since 2016

Senior Researcher and Lecturer at MLU Halle

Since 2021

Regional Coordination Team for Europe and CIS at The International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC)

2019-2020

Visiting Professor in Global Environmental Governance at National University of Uzbekistan

Since 2019

Research Fellow at the Earth System Governance Alliance

2018-2021

Regional Communications Officer for Europe at The International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC)

2019

Visiting Scholar at the Center for Behavior, Institutions and the Environment (CBIE), Arizona State University

2012-2016

Research Fellow, Chair of Landscape Economics, Technical University of Berlin

2011-2012

Governance Programme Assistant, United Nations Development Programme Uzbekistan

2009-2011

Governance Project Assistant, United Nations Development Programme Uzbekistan

2008

Community Mobilizer/Communications Officer, Disaster Risk Reduction Project, World Vision International

2007-2008

Project Coordinator, International Institutional Partnership for Environmental Education funded by the British Council, NGO Environment for Healthy Life

2006-2007

Program Development Assistant and Local Coordinator, Projects on Community Engagement and Sustainable Development funded by the European Commission and Capacity Building of the Youth Parliament funded by UNICEF, NGO Environment for Healthy Life

Certificate on didactics

Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Certificate on didactics in higher education (2021-2022)

Ph.D

Technische Universität Berlin, Chair of Landscape Economics
Degree awarded: Dr. rer. oec. (2016) (With Honor)

M.Sc. (dual)

University of Manchester and Central European University
Joint Master Program in Environmental Sciences and Policy
Degree awarded: Dual M.Sc. Degree in Environmental Sciences and Policy (2009)

Master

Tashkent Institute of Architecture and Construction
Department of Economics
Degree awarded: Master’s Degree in Economics (With Highest Honor) (2008)

2022-2023

Chair of the Panel “Transformative interventions to strengthen biodiversity commons” (with Alex Franklin and Anges Zolyomi), the XIX Biennial IASC-Conference “The Commons We Want”, to be held on 19-24 June 2023 in Nairobi, Kenya, organized by the University of Bern and the University of Nairobi

2022-2023

Co-Chair of the Panel “Sanctioning Grabs or Grabbing Opportunities for Collective Action from Below? Challenges and opportunities of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the Commons” (with Tobias Haller and Peter Larsen), the XIX Biennial IASC-Conference “The Commons We Want”, to be held on 19-24 June 2023 in Nairobi, Kenya, organized by the University of Bern and the University of Nairobi

2022-2023

Member of the Scientific Committee of the XIX Biennial IASC-Conference “The Commons We Want”, to be held on 19-24 June 2023 in Nairobi, Kenya, organized by the University of Bern and the University of Nairobi

2022

Co-Chair of the Panel “Power shifts and action in Earth System Governance” (with Jasper Finkeldey), the Toronto Conference on Earth System Governance on 20-24 October, organized by the University of Toronto and the University of Waterloo

Since 2021

Co-Chair of the IASC Europe & CIS Colloquium Series on Commons and Policy (with Tobias Haller), The International Association for Study of the Commons

2020

Member of the Nomination Committee for the next President and new members of the Council at the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC)

Since 2019

Evaluator of Funding Applications at the National Science Center of Poland

2018

Advisory Board Member: BENELEX – Benefit-sharing for an equitable transition to the green economy, a European Research Council Starting Grant made to Elisa Morgera for the period 2013-2018

2016-2017

Contributing author: KULUNDA: “How to prevent the next global dust bowl? Ecological and Economic Strategies for Sustainable Land Management in the Russian Steppes: A Potential Solution to Climate Change”, project funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research for the period 2011-2016

2021

Nomination by students for the “@ward” at MLU Halle, Prize for outstanding multimedia-integrated teaching and learning in 2021, annually awarded by “@LLZ” (Teaching and Learning Center, Organizer of the “@ward” at MLU Halle) based on student and peer evaluation. The course “Global Environmental Policy and Sustainability Governance”

2019

“@ward” at MLU Halle, Prize for outstanding multimedia-integrated teaching and learning in 2019, annually awarded by “@LLZ” (Teaching and Learning Center, Organizer of the “@ward” at MLU Halle) based on student and peer evaluation. The course “Methods for Institutional Analysis and Policy Evaluation: Understanding and Application of Social Research Methods”

2017–2018

Two DAAD Conference-Scholarships, Earth System Governance Conferences

2016

Takasao Memorial Prize for Young Researcher (under 40) for contribution to water diplomacy research at the 7th International Conference for Water Resources and Environment Research, Kyoto, Japan

2012–2016

Full DAAD Scholarship for Doctoral Research at TU Berlin, Germany

2011

Co-recipient of three team awards – “Best Programme Team”, “Innovation of the Year”, “Commitment to Gender”, UNDP Uzbekistan

2010

“Best Project Assistant” award, UNDP Uzbekistan

2008–2009

CEU Scholarship for M.Sc. in Environmental Sciences and Policy

2007

Sur Place Scholarship for Gifted Graduates, Konrad Adenauer Foundation

2020-2022

Master/PhD level course “Advanced Survey Research Methods”

2017-2022

Master level course “Natural Resources, Agricultural and Environmental Policy III: Global Environmental Policy and Sustainability Governance”

2017-2022

Master level course “Methods of Institutional Analysis and Policy Evaluation: Understanding and Application of Social Research Methods”

2015-2018

Guest lectures in Master level course “Natural Resources, Agricultural and Environmental Policy II: Water Governance”, topics covered – Transboundary Water Competition/Collaboration, Governance of Multipurpose Use: Drinking Water and Sanitation Services in Developing World

2019-2020

Master/PhD level course “Global Environmental Governance

Since 2018

Capacity Building of Young Researchers from Central Asia and Afghanistan in Water Policy Studies” (together with Prof. Björn Klöve)

2016

Guest lectures at the Summer University Course “Reallocating water: Departure for sustainable development” (Wasser neu verteilen: Aufbruch in eine nachhaltige Entwicklung), using a simulation game for experiencing water diplomacy

2015-2016

Master level course “International Environmental Policy”, topics covered – Problems of Shared Water Management: Economics, Political, Legal Perspectives, and Simulation of Negotiation: Complex Case with Complex Decisions

2007-2008

Undergraduate course on Macroeconomics

INSRoN

Founding member of the Interdisciplinary Network on the Study of the Rights of Nature, funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom

IASC

Regional Coordination Team for Europe & CIS at the International Association for the Study of the Commons

WINIR

World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research

ESG

Earth System Governance Alliance

NIÖ NETWORK

Network of German scholars applying institutional and environmental economic approaches to socio-ecological questions of natural resource management

IAAE

International Association of Agricultural Economists