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Pauline Overath

 Pauline Overath

Pauline Overath

Südbau, room 1.19

Otto-Fischer-Straße 4
50674 Cologne

details

Monday, 3-4:30 p.m. or by appointment (Zoom or in person)

Please register for a time slot via the following link:

https://linktr.ee/sprechstunde_overath

Academic career

Since 10/2025 Research assistant in the working group "Economic Geography and Environmental Change", Prof. Dr. Boris Braun, Department of Geography, University of Cologne

07/2025 Geography M.Sc. (focus on economic geography), University of Cologne. Topic of the master thesis: Actors and interdependencies in the entrepreneurial ecosystem of public welfare-oriented companies - A constellation analysis of the networks of selected impact start-ups

04/2018 - 03/2024 Student assistant (later research assistant) at the Wuppertal Institute (Department of Sustainable Production and Consumption)

08/2020 Geography B.Sc., minor subjects: urban planning and social sciences, University of Cologne. Topic of the bachelor thesis: Possibilities of sustainable nutrition from the perspective of consumers - consumption, diffusion, potentials

Courses

WS 2025/26Lecture seminar "Ecological and social risks" (2x)
Summer semester 2026Seminar "Economy and Development" (2x) (together with Dr. L Niesters)

Selected presentations

Overath, Pauline (2026): " Actors and interdependencies in sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystems fostering local food start-ups: Insights from urban areas in Western Germany", Sustainable Built Environment and Energy Transition (SBEET) Conference 2026, February 11-12, 2026, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden.