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since 11/2025
PhD in the Department of Digital Geography, Prof. Dr. Boris Michel, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
since 08/2025
PhD candidate and Research assistant in the Team „Chemistry in Transition“
European Center for Just Transition Research and Impact-Driven Transfer (JTC), Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
02/2025 – 07/2025
Student assistant at the European Center for Just Transition Research and Impact-Driven Transfer (JTC)
05/2024 – 01/2025
Student assistant at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Regional Studies (ZIRS), Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
04/2022 – 07/2025
International Area Studies – Global Change Geography (M.Sc.), Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
04/2022 – 09/2024
Scholarship at the Hans Böckler Foundation
01/2024 – 03/2024
Internships at the German Institute of Urbanism (Difu) und at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Regional Studies (ZIRS)
03/2023 – 07/2023
Semester abroad at Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy)
02/2021 – 03/2023
Student representative on the Academic Senate of Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
11/2021 – 01/2022
Internship at the environmental engineering office Sakosta GmbH Nuremberg
10/2017 – 03/2022
Natural Resource Management (B.Sc.), Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
10/2019 – 02/2020
Semester abroad at Adam-Mieckiewicz-Universität Poznan (Poland)
Further information
Sophie Altmiks is a PhD candidate and research assistant at the European Centre for Just Transition Research and Impact-Driven Transfer (JTC) and in Digital Geography at Martin Luther University. After completing her bachelor’s degree in Environmental Sciences/Natural Resource Management in Halle (Saale) and Poznan, she studied for her master’s degree in International Area Studies/Human Geography in Halle (Saale) and Milan. Her current projects address issues of Political Ecology, Labour Geography and Energy Humanities with a focus on Labour-environment relations in the context of the heat and energy transition and the transformation of the chemical industry.
Research Interest
- Labour Geography
- Labour-environment relations
- Political Ecology
- Energy humanities