I analyze the impacts of a changing climate on migration and urban conflict dynamics. I focus on the questions:
- “Who migrates in response to climatic changes?”
- “Under which circumstances does climate change-related migration lead to conflict in urban areas?"
I mainly work empirically with nationally representative household data of agriculturally dependent countries. Besides that, I contribute to a literature review on the climate change, migration & conflict nexus and to an expert assessment on the historical and expected future link between climatic changes, migration and conflict.
My Ph.D. is mainly funded by a doctoral scholarship of the Heinrich Böll foundation.
Contact
14412 Potsdam
Before my doctoral studies at PIK, I studied Mathematics and Geography at Heidelberg University and worked as a research assistant in a joint project of the department of Geography at Heidelberg University and Central Institute of Mental Health Mannheim, as well as at Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology.
Peer-reviewed articles:
- Benedyk, A., Moldavski, A., Reichert, M., Reinhard, I., Lohr, S., Schwarz, K., ... & Meyer-Lindenberg, A. (2023). Initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic on real-life well-being, social contact and roaming behavior in patients with schizophrenia, major depression and healthy controls: A longitudinal ecological momentary assessment study. European Neuropsychopharmacology, 69, 79-83.
Book chapters:
- Lautenbach, S., Lohr, S., & Reichert, M. (2023). Acquisition and Analysis of Location Data. Mobile Sensing in Psychology: Methods and Applications, 85.
Technical University of Berlin:
- winter term 2022/23: "The Economics of Climate Policy" (together with Prof. Dr. Ottmar Edenhofer, Dr. Martin Hänsel & Dr. Max Franks)
Heidelberg University, Department of Geography
- winter term 2021/22: "Analysis of climate change and climate change impacts with methods of spatial statistics and time series analysis" (together with Prof. Dr. Sven Lautenbach)
- summer term 2021: "Geodatabases" (together with Dr. Michael Auer & Moritz Schott)
- winter term 2020/21: "Analysis of climate change and climate change impacts with methods of spatial statistics and time series analysis" (together with Prof. Dr. Sven Lautenbach)
- winter term 2020/21: "Cartography" (together with Prof. Dr. Sven Lautenbach)
