Education

University of Hamburg (Dr. phil.), Witte/Herdecke University (M.A.),
University College Utrecht (B.A., B.Sc.)

Profile

Katharina is an independent researcher and science communicator with expertise in the application of experimental and computational methods to questions of (international) law, as well as behavioural economics. She has previously held a research position at the Institute of Law and Economics, University of Hamburg, where she conducted her doctoral research on the interaction between civil society and international law in the context of human rights and climate change, and at iCourts, University of Copenhagen, where she developed an agent-based model to understand how nation states comply with the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights and how strategic interventions by the supervisory bodies of the European Human Rights regime shape this compliance.

Her current research broadly asks under which conditions people support and adhere to specific laws and policies, and how institutional design features contribute to these conditions. Inspired by a love for storytelling, Katharina has worked as a science communicator for several publicly funded projects alongside her research activities.

Research Interests

Experimental Law and Economics; Computational Social Science; Climate Policy; Public Opinion; Institutional Design

Publications

Publications are accessible here