Chantal Krumm joined ISOE as a research assistant in the summer of 2023 and has been a research associate since early 2026. With a focus on transdisciplinary collaboration and its impacts, she works on various projects in the fields of biodiversity, land use, and sustainable business practices. As part of a DBU fellowship, she is pursuing her Ph.D. at ISOE and Goethe University Frankfurt on the topic of transdisciplinary sustainability research in times of authoritarian backlash, polarization, and hardened conflicts.

Chantal earned a B.Sc. in Human and Environmental Studies with a focus on environmental economics and environmental psychology from the University of Koblenz-Landau. She then studied Global Sustainability Sciences at Leuphana University Lüneburg and Arizona State University. There, she focused on the institutionalization of transdisciplinary sustainability research at universities, particularly “Transdisciplinary Interface Management.”

Focus of research

  • Transdisciplinary processes and effects
  • Polarization and Conflicts
  • Institutionalization of Transdisciplinary Research
  • Socio-ecological Transformation and Sustainable Economic Management

Publications

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Current Publications

Projects

  • Business for Biodiversity: T-Labs for social-ecological change
    Biodiversity

    Business for Biodiversity: T-Labs for social-ecological change

    In so-called Transformation Labs, the project works with companies in the food industry to research how measures to promote biodiversity can be effectively designed and implemented.

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  • Platform tdAcademy for transdisciplinary research and studies
    Knowledge and Participation

    Platform tdAcademy for transdisciplinary research and studies

    The tdAcademy platform promotes transdisciplinary research by generating knowledge for its effective design, evaluating new methods and formats and offering an international fellowship program.

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