Bachelor's in Biology and a Master's in Social Ecology, both in Vienna, Austria. For my Master's thesis, I spent a year in Mumbai, India, conducting a socio-metabolic study on the production of clay bricks, which involved the extraction of fertile agricultural soil for the expansion of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region.

In November 2021, I earned my PhD from the Institute of Social Ecology in Vienna, where I focused on a long-term sociometabolic assessment of the Greek island of Samothraki. As co-coordinator of a transdisciplinary project that formed the basis of my PhD research, I engaged in comprehensive socioecological system analysis and transition management, collaborating closely with local partners.

Since July 2021, I have been working at MED in the "Landscape Dynamics and Management" research group. In my current work I focus on the implications of the energy transitions for rural regions by assessing land system transformation in the scope of renewable energy infrastructure projects. In my research I combine sociometabolic with ecosystem services conceptual frameworks.