Our current members of the sustainAbility crew
Cornelius Schröder
PhD in neuroscience
PhD topic: biophysical modeling and different approaches of parameter inference given experimental data
Member since: 2016 (founding member)
Personal interests: broad field of sustainability, but also machine learning and its consequences on the society
Hobbies: climbing, cycling, cooking
Highlights with sustainAbility: archery in Merle’s garden
Merle Reuter
PhD in psychology / bachelor student in forestry
PhD topic: Natural Spaces and their potential for children’s mental restoration
Member since: 2016 (founding member)
Personal interests: nature conservation, ecology, ethics
Other groups: StuVegan -Bündnis für eine nachhaltige Mensa; Greenpeace
Hobbies: hiking, gardening, yoga
Highlights with sustainAbility: debates about ecolocical fairness in various fields, such as agriculture and nutrition; sustainable social events
Julian Friedrich
PhD student in Psychology
PhD topic: Occupational health literacy
Member since: 2020
Personal interests: sustainable employability, systemic counselling
Hobbies: climbing and kayaking for health and well-being
Motto: „A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.“
Miriam Keppner
PhD in Political Science
PhD topic: Knowing climate change. The role of transnational municipal networks in producing and diffusing climate knowledge
Member since: 2016 (founding member)
Personal interests: Knowledge communication, environmental psychology, behavioral change
Other groups: Scientists for Future Tübingen
Hobbies: growing vegetables, bee-keeping, sewing
Highlights with sustainAbility: organizing our own mini-lecture series, sustainAbility Christmas Pub Quiz
Álvaro Cortés Rodríguez
PhD student in Linguistics
PhD topic: Processing multiple wh-questions in elliptical contexts
Member since: October 2018
Personal interests: politics, education, psychology, maps, feminism, LGBTQ+ rights, languages and cultures from around the world
Other groups: Scientists for Future Tübingen
Hobbies: acrobatics, biking, yoga, travelling, watching infographics
Highlights with sustainAbility: developing the sustainAbility scholarship, and creating different task forces such as Mental Health AK and Podcast AK
Lara Höfling
PhD student in Computational Neuroscience
PhD topic: Unraveling how visual information is processed in the retina
Member since: January 2019
Personal interests: sustainability and the “good life”; machine learning in sustainability research
Other groups: AG Nachhaltigkeit at the clinics
Hobbies: acrobatics, board games, running, “gardening” in my flat, theatre
Highlights with sustainability: pub crawl; organizing a Podiumsdiskussion on sustainable agriculture
Anna Bareis
PhD student in Psychology
PhD topic: Self-regulation and Personality in educational contexts
Member since: 2019
Personal interests: mental health, understanding the motivations for sustainable behaviour, communal living
Hobbies: gardening, (dog) walking, cooking, running
Highlights with sustainAbility: panel discussion on sustainable agriculture, trip on the “Stocherkahn”, mental health project
Nicola Gericke
PhD student in Microbiology
PhD topic: Functional dissection of transport processes during glycopeptide antibiotic secretion
Member since: Summer 2020
Personal interests: enjoy and protect nature, get to know new people and new ways of life, gender equality
Hobbies: Hiking, Kickboxing, Climbing, playing board games, playing guitar
Highlights with sustainability: Developing and producing a podcast, „Stocherkahn“ tour
Zoé Bürger
PhD student in neuroscience
PhD topic: Understanding the effect of hormonal contraception on stress and sexual functioning
Member since: March 2020
Personal interests: science communication, feminism, LGBTQ+ rights, mental health advocacy, mindfulness and making the world a better place
Hobbies: figure skating, yoga, playing the harp, reading, D&D, being a nerd and enjoying nature
Highlights with sustainAbility: Meeting creative minds and changing the world one step at a time; podcast project & mental health project
Fabian Strauß
PhD student in Physical Chemistry
PhD topic: Development and improvement of nanoparticle-based photodetectors with plasmonics
Member since: spring 2021
Personal interests: technical solutions for climate change; sustainable architecture/planning
Hobbies: (Astro-) Photography, (Beach-) Volleyball, reading, hearing music, playing board games
Highlights with sustainability: planning a Studium Oecologicum course; writing a letter to the editor; hiking trip on the Alb
Nina Effenberger
PhD student in Machine Learning
PhD topic: Uncertainty in Spatio-Temporal Energy Forecasting.
Member since: 2021
Personal interests: machine learning and sustainability, sustainable energies, communicating research with the general public
Hobbies: reading, hiking, socializing
Highlights with sustainAbility: Interfaculty exchange, mental health study
Rebecca Peters
PhD student in geoscience (environmental systems analysis)
PhD topic: Investigating the future of hydropower – Pathways for sustainable
renewable energy development in Africa
Member since: November 2021
Personal interests: How to balance demands for energy, food production, and
biodiversity within a finite land area; climate justice
Hobbies: dance, music (vinyl digging), hiking
Highlights with sustainAbility: hiking trip to Bebenhausen
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