• Since October 2024
  Research Assistant at HAWK Göttingen/Faculty of Resource Management (Forestry and Environmental Policy) and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Göttingen March
• March 2022 – Juli 2024
  M.Sc. in Forestry – Rottenburg University of Applied Forestry (HFR)
• October 2018 – October 2021
  B.Sc. in Forestry – HAWK Göttingen/Faculty of Resource Management

As part of the DFG project “Science and Power in Reforms of State Forest Organizations in Eastern Europe,” I am researching the impacts of forestry reforms in countries of the former Yugoslavia (e.g., Serbia and Slovenia). My focus is on knowledge transfer between research and practice: Using the Research-Integration-Utilization (RIU) model, I examine how scientific findings from research find their way into forestry practice. The RIU model not only allows for a nuanced analysis of knowledge transfer, but it can also be linked to the Actor-Centered Power (ACP) model; this allows for an analysis of the role of the interests and power resources of the actors involved. Methodologically, I combine qualitative interviews with quantitative surveys. The goal of my doctoral dissertation is to explain which factors significantly influence and shape knowledge transfer in forest policy.

• Lindhorst, M., Zavodja, M., Krott, M. & Orlović, S. (2025). Acceptance of EU Forest Related Policies in Candidate States – the Case of Serbian Citizens . Central European Forestry Journal, 71(4), 289–306.