Friderike Selensky

> Scientific Staff, PhD Candidate (she/her)

Friederike Selensky is a research assistant and doctoral candidate at the Chair of Communication and Advisory Services in Rural Areas at the University of Hohenheim. She holds a Master's degree in Crop Science and a Bachelor's degree in Agricultural Biology. In past projects, Friederike has worked on sustainability communication, in particular on nature conservation in agriculture and participatory cooperation. Her current research focusses on sustainability transformations with an emphasis on socio-ecology and innovation. In her dissertation project, she is researching innovation governance from a multi-level perspective. 

Research interest

  • Knowledge and innovation systems 
  • Sustainability transformation in agricultural and food systems 
  • Circular agricultural and food systems 
  • Communication and conflicts on sustainability in agriculture 
  • Science communication 

Curriculum Vitae

02/2023 - today Research associate and PhD candidate, Dep. Communication and advisory services in rural areas University of Hohenheim, Germany
05/2023 – 02/2024 Scientific assistant, Dep. Rural development, agriculture and environment Institut for Rural Development Research at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main und IFLS Consulting and Projects
08/2022 – 09/2022 Assistance to the Product Manager, Product Management for Pea and Oat KWS Saat SE & Co. KGaA
11/2021 – 07/2022 Scientific assistant, Dep. Communication and advisory services in rural areas
  • Project: AckerKom
 
University of Hohenheim
07/2021 – 10/2021 Intern, Organic Variety Development KWS Saat SE & Co. KGaA
01/2021 – 06/2021 Erasmus Semester Swedish Agricultural University Uppsala (SLU)
10/2019 – 01/2023 M. Sc. Crop Science, Specialisation: Plant Nutrition and Protection University of Hohenheim
10/2018 – 09/2020 Scientific assistant, Dep. Biobased Resources in the Bioeconomy (340b)
  • Projects: MISCOMAR, GRACE
 
University of Hohenheim
10/2017 – 12/2019 B. Sc. Agricultural Biology
  • Thesis: Linseed (Linum usitatissimum) in organic farming: weed occurrence and yield of morphologically very different linseed varieties
 
University of Hohenheim
10/2015 – 09/2017 Biology Studies Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg

Research Projects and Teaching/Training Activities

Research Projects

On-going: 

  • Trans4num 
  • modernAKIS 
  • i2connect 
  • EU4Advice 

Closed: 

  • AckerKom 

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Projects