Education

10/2013 - 10/2016: Master of Arts in Environmental Policy and Planning at Technische Universität Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin; Master thesis: „Disastrous flood – Different Conceptualizations, meanings and impacts of the 2005 flood in Mumbai, India“

2011 - 2016: several field research stays in Hyderabad and Mumbai, India, partly in cooperation with the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and TERI University

04/2012 - 07/2012: Design Thinking Study Program at Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Potsdam

10/2007 - 03/2012: Bachelor studies in Geography, Social Sciences and Agricultural Sciences at Humboldt Universität of Berlin

08/2009 - 06/2010: Student at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India (Centre for the Study of Regional Development)

 Jobs

07/2016 - 12/2016: Research assistant at the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW), Project „Cooperation and participation process for the further development of the German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change“

2012 - 05/2016: Freelancing, i.a. for The Urban Idea GmbH (i.a. Documentation of the EcoMobility World Festival 2015 in Johannesburg, South Africa) and Ver.di (Study on Trends and Challenges of the German Water Sector)

04/2013 - 09/2015: Student assistant at the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW), Berlin; assistant editor for “ÖkologischesWirtschaften”

07/2010 - 07/2011: Student assistant at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Studies (PIK) in the Megacity Project “Sustainable Hyderabad”

10/2008 - 07/2009: Student assistant at the Geography Department of Humboldt University of Berlin, Innovation Research

• Environmental Policy and Planning, Climate change adaptation and disaster prevention
• Social vulnerability and resilience
• Social and political ecology
• Urban development and transformation, focus South Asia
• Qualitative research and participatory methods

Publications

Kuttler, T.; Zimmermann, T. (2016): Change the Way You Move! A Central Business District Goes Ecomobile. Jovis, Berlin.

Ver.di (Hrsg.) (2015): Wasserwirtschaft in Deutschland. Branchenanalyse, Trends und Herausforderungen. Berlin. (co-Autorin)

Zimmermann, T. (2014): Buchrezension zu Carl Death (Ed.): Critical Environmental Politics. In: Ökologisches Wirtschaften 3/2014, Industrial Ecology. Oekom, München.

Dijks, S., Grafe, F.-J., Hampel, M., Jarass, J., Kuttler, T., Thylmann, M., Zimmermann, T. (2011): Generation Nachhaltigkeit: Wann, wenn nicht wir? Tagungsband der Konferenz 2011. Berlin, Geographisches Institut der Humboldt-Universität Berlin.

Presentations / Workshops / Poster

Zimmermann, Theresa (2018): Understanding urban disasters – the 2005 floods in Mumbai. Poster Presentation, ninth Annual Global Forum on Urban Resilience and Adaptation, April 26-28, 2018, Bonn.

Zimmermann, Theresa (2018): Exceeding the imaginable – changing perspectives on monsoon in Mumbai? Paper Presentation, Monsoon [+Other Waters] Symposium, April 12-13, 2018, University of Westminster, London.

Kuttler, T.; Zimmermann, T. (2015): Contested Materialities: Urban modes of life of agricultural producers in Hyderabad and Chennai. Paper Presentation, AAG Annual Conference, April 21-25, 2015, Chicago.

Zimmermann, T.; Thylmann, M. (2014): Die monetäre Bewertung von Natur. Diskussionsworkshop an der 4. Internationalen Degrowth-Konferenz, September 2-6, 2014, Leipzig.

Zimmermann, T.; Amerasinghe, P.; Drechsel, Pay (2011): Farmer Perceptions on Economic Costs of Wastewater Irrigation in Hyderabad, India. Poster Präsentation auf dem Tropentag 2011, Development on the margin, October 5-7, 2011, Bonn.