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Miriam Elsässer studied Geography at the LMU Munich and completed her Bachelor’s degree in 2016. This was followed by the master's programme in "Tourism and Regional Planning – Management and Geography" at the Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. In her master's thesis, she dealt with the impact of the understanding of nature on human-animal relations, analysing the opinion and acceptance of affected actors regarding the return of beavers to the district of Dillingen on the Danube. In doing so, she followed a type-building approach and developed different types of opinions on beavers, which should generate a deeper understanding of the existing situation.
   

Occupational Development

• Since 04/2020: Research associate at the Department of Geography of the Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
• 2017-2020: Master’s programme "Tourism and Regional Planning - Management and Geography" at the Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. Master thesis on the topic "...and then it just cut down our tree!" – Nature conceptions, nature protection and acceptance in the relation to the return of beavers to the district Dillingen on the Danube" (Supervision: Prof. Dr. Christian Steiner)
• 2013-2020: Internships and working student activities in the fields of infrastructure development, hotel industry and real estate management
• 2013-2016: Bachelor‘s programme in Geography at the LMU Munich
    

Thematic research focus

• Animal Geographies
• Human-environment relations