Lea Susanne Helm works since March 2018 as a student assistant in the DFG funded project CONNECT.

She successfully completed her Bachelor in Political Science and Human Geography in 2017 at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. Her main interest are in the field of Climate Policy and Governance, which she could deepen during an internship at the Institute of Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg.

Since October 2017, she studies the master’s program Urban Future at the University of Applied Science in Potsdam.  The core areas in her master’s program are urban climate adaption strategies, Urban Governance and digitalization.