Profile

Rebecca completed her Master’s degree in Political Science at the University of Vienna (2021–2024). 
Her research focuses on socio-ecological transformation, governance issues, and infrastructure and conflict research. 
Since April 2025, she has been a project assistant in the research unit of Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy, where her research focuses, amongst other things, on the governance of sustainable mobility and climate change adaptation in forestry. 
Since September 2026, she has also been working as a project assistant (PraeDoc) in the Sociology Research Group, contributing to the T‑Path‑15, opens an external URL in a new window project on ‘Systems of Provision’ and the mobility behaviour of young adults in urban and semi-urban areas. 
Her doctoral thesis examines governance in the context of climate change and its impacts on key infrastructure, as well as socio-ecological transformation. 
Before joining TU Wien, she worked for various NGOs on issues relating to democratic participation and civic education.

Research interests

• Governance of socio-ecological transformation
• Political ecology and political economy
• Sustainable mobility and infrastructure
• Climate change adaptation (including in forestry)

Projects

• LEIWAND (Lokale Entscheidungen für den sozial-ökologischen Infrastrukturwandel)
• Klimawald Kamptal
• EX:TRA (Experimentelle Transformation: neue Entscheidungswege für kommunale Infrastruktur)
• T-Path-15