Julia Tovote has been a PhD student and research assistant at the Sustainability Research Centre since June 2022. As a visiting researcher at the Museum für Naturkunde, she is using the German-French Citizen Science project "Nature of Things. A Participatory Collection of the Anthropocene", she is investigating personal, local and cultural knowledge about the human impact on nature.

Previously, she worked for several years in science and sustainability communication, including at the Institute for Ecological Economy Research and Nissen Consulting. She studied political science, economics, philosophy and French at the University of Mannheim. She received the 2nd Artes Liberales Prize in 2018 for her thesis on the topic of prostitution.