Jana Rülke

Since 1st October, 2024, Jana Rülke is the Coordinator and Public Relations Manager of the DFG-funded research training group (RTG) 'Ecological Regime Shifts and Systemic Risk in Coupled Social-Ecological Systems (ECORISK)'. She was also involved in the successful acquisition of the project.

Since 2020, Jana Rülke is working as a research associate in the research group Human Geography with a focus on Economic Geography. She was working in the DBU-funded research project "Value Chains and Consumer Decisions – Remote Effects of Governance and Product Biographies Using Cocoa as an Example". Her dissertation project focuses on the production conditions of cocoa in Ghana as well as the effects of different governance structures considering social, ecological and economic aspects.

She completed her bachelor's degree in agricultural sciences with a focus on agroecology at the Georg-August University of Göttingen. After longer stays abroad in different Sub-Saharan countries, she studied in the Master's program Geographies of Rural Areas - Change through Globalization at the University of Vechta. For her Master's thesis, she successfully applied to participate in the international and interdisciplinary DAAD-funded project "Reconciling human livelihood needs and nature conservation" in Kenya. In her master's thesis "An Anthropogeographical Perspective on Human-Environment Relationships. Empirical Research on Human Needs and Nature Conservation in the Kenyan Biodiversity Hotspot Taita Hills Cloud Forest (THCF)" she addressed the challenge of assigning the personal positioning of local rural people, taking into account their individual challenges, to an anthropo- or ecocentric perspective. During her master studies Jana Rülke was supported by the Deutschlandstipendium of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

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