• Since 2025: Research assistant at the Department of International Relations with a focus on Latin America at the University of Kassel.
  • 2022-2025: University Assistant (prae-doc) at the Institute for International Development, Faculty of Political Science, University of Vienna.
  • 2023-2025: Scholarship holder of the Marietta Blau Scholarship of the OeAD. PhD research stays at the University of Brighton (UK), Northumbria University (UK) and Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
  • Since 2022: PhD student at the Vienna Doctoral School of Social Sciences of the University of Vienna, the University of Kassel (since 2023), and associated in the Research Training Group "Crisis and Social-Ecological Transformation" of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Berlin. PhD topic (working title): Transformation of gender relations in contested territories: An analysis of the (re)production of patriarchal structures in protests against copper mining in the southern Andean region of Peru.
  • 2019-2022: Master's program (M.A.) in Interdisciplinary Latin American Studies at the Institute for Latin American Studies (LAI) at Freie Universität Berlin in the profile Gender Relations, Life Forms, Transformation.
  • 2021-2022: Erasmus scholarship holder at the Universidade de Coimbra in the Master Anthropology, Globalization and Climate Change.
  • 2020-2021: Student assistant in the BMBF junior research group "GLOCON: Global Change - Local Conflicts? Land Conflicts in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa in the Context of Interdependent Transformation Processes", FU Berlin.
  • 2018-2021: Student assistant at the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin. Program Coordination M.A. Intercultural Conflict Management/Gestión de Conflictos Interculturales and at the Chair of International Social Work and Social Policy.
  • 2015-2019: Bachelor's degree (B.A.) in European Ethnology and Social Sciences at the Humboldt University of Berlin.
  • 2017-2018: Study abroad at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú in Anthropology and Political Science.
  • Socio-ecological crisis and global inequalities
  • Conflicts over land, energy and raw materials from a transnational perspective
  • Feminist political ecology
  • Social movement and protest research
  • Feminist theories, gender relations and transformation
  • Latin America

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Tuesdays and Wednesdays after prior registration by email (at least 1 week in advance) to ali.heuser[at]uni-kassel[dot]de, stating the topic to be discussed.