Welcome, Katharina Herwig
Katharina Herwig has joined the MERE group as a Research Assistant
We are happy to welcome Katharina Herwig, 26, from Hamburg in Northern Germany to the department.
Just after turning 15 Katharina went abroad for a year to Aotearoa (New Zealand) where her interest in resource management and sustainability was first sparked when living with, and learning from, a Maori family. Coming back, she focussed her high school studies all around that interest, taking extra classes in sustainability and partaking in a Comenius project on fair trade.
After she graduated high school (Gymnasium) with a specification in psychology, economics, and political studies she went on to study a B.Sc. in Business Administration in a dual system. Employed by a local environmental service provider, she was able to gain work experience all throughout her education at the dual university Hamburg School of Business Administration.
Eager to deepen her knowledge on environmental and resource management academically, she enrolled in a Bachelor of Environmental Engineering to bridge the months until she could start her master in Environmental and Resource Management at SDU in Esbjerg.
Throughout her master she had the privilege to join a project for the P4G summit in Copenhagen, choose subjects of personal interest, including risk management and corporate social responsibility and write about various topics, such as sustainability in the banking sector, sea level rise and its impact on Esbjerg city, the environmental impact of pharmaceuticals and personal care products on water as a resource and a comparing risk assessment related to the effect of global average temperature increase between the EU and Sub-Saharan countries.
She wrote her master thesis on what limits individuals to act on climate change, proposing communication strategies to provoke action. After working a couple of months in the credit insurance industry while finding her way into academia, she has now joined SDU Esbjerg as a Research Assistant, supporting the MERE group, particularly with research on risk and exposure in insurance.
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