I am Charrlotte, a postdoctoral researcher in the Institute of Anthropology at Leipzig University. I recently completed my PhD in Human Geography as a Research Associate with teaching responsibilities in the Institute of Geosciences at Freie Universität Berlin. I was also part of the Berlin University Alliance funded project: Human Health & Multispecies Cohabitation on an Urban Planet.

I hold an Integrated Masters in Development Studies from the Indian Institute of Technology - Madras (IIT-M) and worked in various research and policy think-tanks from 2016 to 2021, before re-entering academia. I grew up in a cozy little city in central Tamil Nadu called Trichy. I find that my prior life and work experiences play a crucial role in grounding my research interests and academic practice.

I am interested in advancing a critical more-than-human geography which centers both intra-human and more-than-human differences as relations unfold in uneven urban spaces. My doctoral research brought in such a political sensibility of thinking from the margins into the realm of vegetal geography. In this work, I sought to expand the possibilities and politics of plant thinking, by centering urban inequalities and by thinking through situated epistemologies in thinking and living with plant life, working across more-than-human geography, southern urban theory, and political ecology.

I am trained in human geography which fosters an interdisciplinary but critical understanding of the reconfiguration of relations in space. I employ qualitative and experimental methods to understand the dynamic, contested, and emergent relations and politics of urban Asia.