Ronja Alexandra KrausPhD Student
About me
Since 2022, I am a PhD student in the Landscape, Environment and Geomatics research unit. My research is supervised by Anna Treydte, Anna Sustersic and Erica von Essen and focusses on temporal and geospatial patterns in human-carnivore conflicts from a social-ecological perspective.
As an ecologist and geographer, I am focusing on human-wildlife-interactions from an interdisciplinary perspective. I am passionate in working with local stakeholders and consider the combination of methods from social and natural science as crucial to understand multifaceted conflicts between land users and wildlife.
I gained most of my previous field experience in Namibia where I examined human-elephant interactions adjacent to the Etosha National Park by conducting semi-structured interviews and geospatial analyses. As I learned about the importance of communication with local stakeholders, my PhD study also includes knowledge communication to local communities by identifying and applying adequate transfer formats.
