Benita Ebersbach

Benita Ebersbach has been a research assistant at RIFS since July 2022 and is currently working in the ‘Democratic Governance and Action’ research group.

Among other things, she is involved in the Social Sustainability Barometer, which examines the social dimension of transformations in Germany, in particular citizens' perceptions, attitudes and assessments of various sustainability transformations. She also focuses on the effects of citizen participation on energy projects, especially finanical participation measures and the determinants for participation in such formats.

She studied psychology at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, completing her bachelor's and master's degrees with a focus on work, education and society. As part of her master's degree, she focused on environmental psychology research by designing and implementing an app-based intervention to establish climate-friendly nutrition based on environmental psychology findings and behavioural change techniques in her master's thesis.

In addition to her master's degree, she also completed a certificate in Corporate Social and Ecological Responsibility, in which she dealt with problem areas of sustainable and mindfulness-based corporate action and gained experience in sustainability management in public administration.