Geographer with a focus on conservation, human-environmental system dynamics, protected areas management, restoration, ecosystem services, wildlife crime prevention.

BSc & MSc at Humboldt-University Berlin/Germany.

Working experience:
- WWF Azerbaijan & Armenia (2017)
- Helmholtz Zentrum for Environmental Research (UFZ) (2020)
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) (2021-2022)

- RA at Humboldt University at the lab of Urban Landscape Ecology (2018-2019)
- RA at Humboldt University at the lab of Conservation Biogeography (2019-2020)
- TA at Humboldt University at the lab of Applied Geoinformatics (2016-2017) 

 

Obtained grants:
- female career fund (Geography Department HU) 
- DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) 
- ERASMUS+ grant
- PROMOS 
 

Areas of Interest

  • conservation, human-environmental system dynamics, protected areas management, restoration, ecosystem services, wildlife crime prevention, participatory methods, environmental justice
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Degrees

  • Degree Type
    BSc
    Degree Details
    Geography and Agricultural Science
  • Degree Type
    MSc
    Degree Details
    Global Change Geography

Conferences

Research Topics

  • Human Dimensions of Global Change - Coupled Human and Natural Systems
Judith Rakowski
Phone
Email
jrakowsk [at] umd.edu