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 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.

For my doctoral dissertation, I studied the processes and politics of greening Coimbatore city in India, to delineate a lively political ecology of urban forests. My fieldwork traced afforestation projects and the ways in which it reorders relationships between humans, trees, and other beings, in a space activated by modalities of entrepreneurial urbanisation and more-than-human agencies. Through my work, I aim to bring together stories of human and more-than-human aspirations in uneven landscapes and their contested politics of place.

I was also part of the Berlin University Alliance funded project: Human Health & Multispecies Cohabitation on an Urban Planet.