About

I am a post-doc researcher and Hertha-Firnberg Fellow at the Department of Geography. My research interests concern social aspects of risk and resilience in the context of natural hazards, climate change and tourism development.  A particular focus of my research is on hazards and risk in the Global South: how tourism creates risk and what factors influence risk management, and how hazard and risk research generates impacts for communities and research participants. More information on my personal website.

Research interests: risk, resilience, tourism development, research impact, STS

Regions: Alps (Austria), Himalaya (Nepal, India)

Methods: semi-structured interviews, focus group discussions, questionnaire surveys, content analysis, choice-bases conjoint analysis

Projects

Current projects:

• The impacts and unintended side-effects of doing research on natural hazards and disaster risk (fwf, Hertha Firnberg; 2022-2025)
• Build Back Better: Leveraging systemic shocks for integrated climate change adaptation and mitigation (ACRP, 2021-2023)

 Completed projects:

• touRes: Resilience of tourism systems to natural hazards in the Himalayas
• CCSBD