About me

Dr. Elke Kellner

Research Interests

  • Sustainable resource governance
  • Social-ecological-systems
  • Social-ecological systems frameworks
  • Decision-making
  • Environmental policy
  • Climate change mitigation and adaptation
  • Energy Transition
  • Complex adaptive systems
  • Transdisciplinary co-production of knowledge

Since June 2024

Senior researcher (Marie Curie Fellow). Wyss Academy for Nature, University of Bern, Switzerland, CH.

Inter- and transdisciplinary research project “Sustainable resource governance under pressure: How to govern trade-off situations under global change”.

Since February 1999

Lecturer. Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences, University of Kassel, Witzenhausen, DE.

03/2024 — 06/2024

Nominated visiting scholar (Marie Curie Fellow). Ostrom Workshop, Indiana University Bloomington, US.

02/2022 — 02/2024

Associated faculty and lecturer (Marie Curie Fellow). School of Sustainability, College of Global Futures and Center for Behavior, Institutions and the Environment, Arizona State University, US.

Inter- and transdisciplinary research projects: (1) Sustainable resource governance under pressure: How to govern trade-off situations under global change. (2) Collaborative governance in a Citizen Science Project on wildlife monitoring.

08/2022 — 12/ 2022

Lecturer. School of Geography, Development & Environment, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Arizona, US.

04/2021 — 01/2022

Postdoctoral researcher. Wyss Academy for Nature, University of Bern, CH.

Developing the “Step-by-step approach for transdisciplinary research projects“. Transdisciplinary project “Local energy transition experiments for a low-carbon society“.

01/2019 — 12/2021

Pilot Programme and transdisciplinary project: “First alpine tourist destination substantially carbon neutral“.

12/2011 — 12/2021

Elected member of the commission “Processing and trade of certified organic food” (MKV). Bio Suisse, Basel, CH.

11/2019 — 10/2021 

Postdoctoral researcher. Groups of “Environmental and Resource Economics” and “Mountain Hydrology and Mass Movements” at Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL (ETH Zürich domain), CH.

Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary projects: Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Switzerland. Governance of the warning chain for Swiss severe weather events at the national, regional, and local levels.

08/2016 — 10/2019

PhD Researcher. Institute of Geography and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, CH.

Multi-purpose reservoirs for alleviating water shortages

01/2016 — 12/2016

Research Assistant. Section for Federal Planning, Federal Office for Spatial Development (ARE), Bern, CH.

Project manager to evaluate the national spatial planning processes.

07/2014 — 12/2015 

Research Assistant. Section for Sustainable Development, Federal Office for Spatial Development (ARE), Bern, CH.

Co-organizer and co-leader of a participatory process with 150 stakeholders to develop the Swiss Sustainable Development Strategy 2016-2019.

08/2014 — 01/2015

Lecturer. Faculty of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences HAFL, Bern University of Applied Sciences, CH.

12/2006 — 12/2013

Lecturer and Research Assistant. Faculty of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences HAFL, Bern University of Applied Sciences, CH.

07/2005 — 11/2006

Teacher for nature conservation excursions with schools: BUND für Umwelt- und Naturschutz, Ravensburg, DE.

2004 — 2012

Five weeks per year in summer: management of an alpine dairy, Balisalp in the Bernese Oberland, CH. Fully responsible for cheese production, milking of dairy cows, and herding of cows, heifers, and pigs.

04/1997 — 07/1997 

Research Assistant. Institute of Food Science, ETH, Zurich, CH.

03/1997

Employee. Chees dairy Dr. Oskar Flüeler, Alpnach Dorf, CH.

10/1995 — 12/1995

Research Assistant. Harvard Medical School Boston, Center for Blood Research, Department of Genetics, Boston, US.

08/1995 — 09/1995

Research Assistant. Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam, DE.

05/1995 — 07/1995

Research Assistant. Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics (MPI-IE), Freiburg, DE.

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