Research Institute for Sustainability Helmholtz Centre Potsdam

Kristina Steinmar

Kristina Steinmar

Affiliate Scholar

E-Mail

kristina [dot] steinmar [at] rifs-potsdam [dot] de

Kristina Steinmar studied geoecology in Potsdam and worked as a scientific officer at RIFS Potsdam and at acatech.

Since 2023, she has been a doctoral student at the Technical University of Berlin in the BMBF junior research group "Social, economic and ecological effects of participatory, sustainable food production" [pane]. There she investigates the economic effects of initiatives of participatory, sustainable food production. Her research focuses on the motivations, challenges, knowledge needs and perspectives of farmers.

  • 2013-2017 M.Sc. Geoecology, University of Potsdam
  • 2016-2017 Student Assistant at the IASS (Project ClimPol)
  • 2014/2015 Exchange semester at the Porter School for Environmental Studies (Tel Aviv University, Israel) with focus on hydrology in drylands, environmental ethics and environmental health
  • 2009 - 2013 B.Sc. Geoecology, University of Potsdam

  • Potentials of alternative and sustainable supply structures
  • Sustainable food production
  • Methods of inter- and transdisciplinary research