Alena Mathis M.A.
External Doctoral Candidate
- Since 2024 Doctoral Fellow at the German Federal Environmental Foundation
- 2023-2025 Research Assistant at the Junior Professorship
- 2023 Research Assistant at Bildungsbüro, Mayor’s Office, Municipality of Nuremberg (project-based)
- 2022-2023 Student Assistant at the Junior Professorship
- 2021-2022 Seminar Leader in Adult Education, Internationaler Bund e.V., Bamberg
- 2019-2022 Master Studies in Sociology, Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg
- 2017 Internship Semester, Toronto/Canada
- 2015-2019 Bachelor Studies in Music and Movement Oriented Social Work, Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg
- 2020: Sponsorship Award of the Barmherzige Brüder Bayerische Ordensprovinz for Bachelor Thesis ?Music and Movement Oriented Social Work in Grief Counselling. Backgrounds and Considerations for Opening Up A New Field of Activity“ (first placed)
- “Solastalgia in the Alps? On Emotional Dimensions of (Climate) Change in Mountain Agriculture” (PhD Colloquium “Rural Studies #5”, Bamberg, September 25-27, 2024).
- “Sensing Extinction and Creating Awareness: Solastalgia as an Emotional ‘Contact Zone’ between the Human and Non-human World” (Conference “Traces of Extinction: Species Loss, Solastalgia and Semiotics