Merle Müller-Hansen M.A.
| Phone: | +49 821 598 3901 |
| Email: | merle.mueller-hansen@uni-auni-a.de () |
| Room: | 1207 (I) |
| Address: | Universit?tsstra?e 12, 86159 Augsburg |
Research foci
- Intersectional food environment analysis?(with a focus on gender)
- Digital, sustainable, and corporeal (affective) dietary dynamics
- Everyday practices & slow violence
- Agri-food?systems & regimes
- Food movements
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CV
Professional experience
2025 Project coordinator NutriAIDE
2022 PhD Candidate / Researcher and Teacher, Urban Climate Resilience, Center for Climate Resilience (CCR) 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 of Augsburg
2019 Research Assistant for National Geographic and New York Times articles with Nadia Shira Cohen
2018/19 Maya Grassroots NGO of Indigenous Communities in Campeche, Mexico
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Qualifications
2025 Doctoral Thesis submission (for obtaining a Dr. rer. nat.)
2023 Certificate 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 Teaching by the Bavarian Universities and Theme Cetificate Inclusive 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 Teaching
2021 Master in Interdisciplinary Latein America Sciences, Freie Universit?t Berlin
2017 Bachelor in Political Science, Freie Universit?t Berlin
2016 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 Studies Abroad, Havana 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 Cuba
2014 Abitur, Freie Waldorfschule Tübingen
2012 High School Diploma (Honors Role), Frankfort Senior High School
2010 Programme Voltaire, Bundestag/Assemblée Nationale
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Stipends
2025 Equal Opportunity Scholarship for the support of a research assistant
2024-25 Equal Opportunity Scholarship for doctoral research in Mexico
2024 Erasmus+ Training Mobility for international exchange in teaching
2024 Early Career Scholarship at the 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 of Augsburg for one conference
2024 Women's Advancement Scholarship at the Faculty of Applied Computer Science for two conferences
2023 Women's Advancement Scholarship at the Faculty of Applied Computer Science for a total of three conferences
2022 Equal Opportunity Scholarship for doctoral research in Mexico
2021 DAAD Mobility Scholarship for master's research in Mexico
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Memberships and volunteering
2025 Indian Sociological Society (ISS) - Group?Food, Culture and Society
2024 Young and Emerging Scholars (YES!) International Geographical Union (IGU) - Commission Gender & Geography
2023?Verband für Geographie an deutschsprachigen Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen (VGDH)
2021 Ernst-Reutter-Gesellschaft der Freien Universit?t Berlin
2019 Komitee j?hrliches Kulturfestival “Hanal Balam“ zum Tag der Toten, Yucatán
2013 Youth For Understandung (YFU) Deutschland
Publications
-> Scientific Articles:
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- Die Erde, Special Issue Food Justice?(2025, in print)
Open Access: Disrupting Colonial Trauma Through the Hyperconsumption of Outside Foods in India? A Digital Food Consumer Citizenship
- Ichan Tecolotl
Open Access (Spanish Language Article): El sufrimiento socioambiental por la muerte de abejas como eje de la movilización colectiva maya en Hopelchén, Península de Yucatán
- Social & Cultural Geography
Open Access: From the Wealthy-Healthy-Chubby Nexus to Outside Foods - Changing Food Consumption Practices in India and Mexico
- Geographien Südasiens (2025) +?Editorial Team
Open Access: Digital Food Consumer Citizenship Beyond The Indian State
- Geographien Südasiens (2024)
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Open Access:? Urban food environments in India and Mexico
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- Die Erde (2023)
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- Leibniz Soziet?t (2019)
- Second Author (German Language Article)
In "Migration und Interkulturalit?t. Theorien - Methoden - Praxisbezüge", Ed. K. St?rl
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-> 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】ia Articles:
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- New York Times (2025)
- research assistance
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The Mennonite Colony That Made a Deal With a Diamond Company"
(Cover Story Print Version June 24, 2025)
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- National Geographic (2021)
- research assistance
"Cultivos de la discordia en Campeche. Mayas y menonitas colisionan por la tierra y su futuro"
(Cover Story in the Print Version Latin America, June 2021)
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- National Geographic (2019)
- research assistance
" An unlikely feud between beekeepers and Mennonites simmers in Mexico"
(Online, World Press Awards 2019: Second place environmental reportage)
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-> Reviewing:
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National Geographic
DIE ERDE
Geographien Südasiens
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-> Past Public Presentations:
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- Tropentag an der Universit?t für Bodenkultur (BOKU) Wien 2024 -?NutriAIDE - Building smart food environments for improved nutrition: Insights from research in India, with Markus Keck
- Congress of the International Geographical Union Dublin 2024 - Change in Urban Food Environments: Unraveling Dynamics of Digitalization, Corporeality, and Platform Power
- Gender Commission of the International Geographical Union Dublin 2024 - Slow violence in?app-food-body assemblages: reading digital food environments through feminist lenses
- Food Conference Perugia 2024 - Digital Food Geographies: Hybrid Affects In a Food-App-Human Assemblage
- Summer School 'Critical Social Science Perspectives on Climate Change' of the Center for Climate Resilience (CCR) Augsburg 2024 - Gender and Affect in an App-Food-Human Assemblage
- Neue Kulturgeographie (NKG) Münster 2024 - Space-Time-Sustainability (STS) Cubes: An Urban Political Ecology of Food Environment Research, with Katharina Gr?ne and Sebastian Purwins
- AK Agri-Food meets AK Geographische Handelsforschung Würzburg 2024 - STS Cubes: Food Environment Visualization with Space Time Sustainability (STS) Cubes
- AK Südasien Augsburg 2024 -?Disrupting Colonial Trauma through the Hyper Consumption of Outside Foods in India? A Digital Food Consumer Citizenship
- DKG Frankfurt 2023 -?'Healthy-Wealthy-Chubby' and 'Outside Foods' in?Urban Food Environments : Evidence from India and Mexico
- ECPR Prag 2023 - Panel "Local Pathways to Sustainable Foodsystems"?- An app-based approach?to transforming unhealthy consumption practices and unsustainable food systems :?'Healthy-Wealthy-Chubby' and 'Outside Foods' in?Urban Food Environments
- Umweltbildungszentrum Augsburg 2023 -?Aufbau smarter Ern?hrungsumfelder für gesunde und nachhaltige Ern?hrung - Einblicke aus Indien und Mexiko
- AK Südasien Berlin 2023 -?'Healthy-Wealthy-Chubby' and 'Outside Foods' in New Urban Food Environments : Evidence from India and Mexico
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-> Organisation:?
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- Neue Kulturgeographie (NKG) 2025 "Sepculative Geographies of the New Climate Regime"?https://kulturgeographie.org
- Summer School Center for Climate Resilience (CCR) 2024 "Critical social science perspectives on climate change: Governmentality, Political Ecology, and New Materialism"
- Interactive Science Fair?Contributions at the Long Night of Science?(LNDW, German Accronym) Augsburg
- Specialty Group Meeting South Asia Augsburg 2024