• Since 11/2024: Member of the Green Research Network “Building Climate Resilience for a Vital Environment (BRaVE): Identification of Vulnerabilities, Indicators and Implications for Actions” at the Center for Climate Resilience, University of Augsburg
• Since 07/2023: Doctoral researcher and research associate at the Chair of Political Science with a focus on Climate Policy, University of Augsburg
• 09/2021–06/2023: Research associate at the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development, Dresden
• 01/2021–06/2021: Internship in the global project “Human Mobility in the Context of Climate Change” at GIZ, Bonn
• 12/2020: Master’s degree in “Environment and Sustainable Development”, University College London (UCL), UK
• 10/2020–02/2021: Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Trier
• 11/2020–02/2021: Contract work, Department of Geography, University of Trier
• 08/2019: Bachelor’s degree in Geography, University of Bonn
• 07/2019–08/2019: DAAD-Rise internship at the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway
• 01/2019–03/2019: Internship in the department “Water, Mobility, Urban Development,” German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Bonn
• 09/2018–12/2018: Exchange semester, Department of Geography, University College London (UK)
• 07/2017–08/2018: Student assistant, Writing Center, University of Bonn

Academic Career

Research Stays

• 11/2025–01/2026: Field research in Dominica
• 06/2025: Participant observation and interviews at UNFCCC intersessional negotiations, Bonn (Germany)
• 05/2025: Exploratory research with interviews in Bridgetown, Barbados
• 11/2024: Participant observation and interviews at COP29, Baku (Azerbaijan)

Research Funding

• 2025: DAAD scholarship for a three-month research stay in Dominica
• 2025: Gender Equality Office scholarship for one-month exploratory research in Barbados
• 2025: Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences scholarship for women for research at UNFCCC intersessionals, Bonn (Germany)
• 2024: Graduate School for Humanities and Social Sciences scholarship for two-week stay at COP29, Baku (Azerbaijan)
• 2024: Early-career research funding, University of Augsburg, for participation in the Environmental and Climate Mobilities Network (ECMN) conference, Liège (Belgium)

Organizational Milestones

• 2023: Organization of the international conference “Digitalization for Sustainability Transformation: Critical Perspectives, Lessons Learned and Future Prospects”
• 2022: Organization of the international conference “Missions for sustainability: New approaches for science and society,” Leibniz Research Network Knowledge for Sustainable Development, Berlin
• 2022: Organization of the annual conference “Space & Transformation: Livable Futures,” Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development, Dresden

Conference Presentations

• International Climate Resilience Conference, Munich – Kaltenberg, Alina; Oels, Angela; “Planned relocation in the Eastern Caribbean as a strategy for climate resilience? How vulnerabilisation leads to disposability” – Oct 2025
• Brownbag Seminar Series, Center for Climate Resilience, Augsburg – Kaltenberg, Alina “Planned Resettlement and Early Warning in the Caribbean: Discourses and Practices of ‘Vulnerability’ from the Perspective of Decolonial Political Ecology” – July 2025
• Environmental and Climate Mobilities Conference (ECMN 2025), Bonn – Kaltenberg, Alina; Oels, Angela; Haider-Nash, Sarah “Lost in Negotiations? Conflicting discourses on climate change and human mobility in international climate politics: From Katowice (2018) to Baku (2024)” – July 2025
• Workshop ‘Governing Climate Mobilities 15 Years After the Cancun Agreement,’ Krems (Austria) – Oels, Angela; Kaltenberg, Alina; Haider-Nash, Sara “Lost in Negotiations? Conflicting discourses on climate change and human mobility in international climate politics: From Katowice (2018) to Baku (2024)” – May 2025
• Workshop ‘Governing Climate Mobilities 15 Years After the Cancun Agreement,’ Krems (Austria) – Kaltenberg, Alina; Oels, Angela; “Constituted Vulnerability in the Colonial Hurricane: Reframing Vulnerability to Climate (Im)Mobilities in the Eastern Caribbean” – May 2025
• Environmental and Climate Mobilities Network (ECMN) Conference, Liège (Belgium) – Kaltenberg, Alina; Oels, Angela “Facing the Colonial Hurricane: (De)constructing vulnerability to climate-induced risks to human mobility” – July 2024
• POLLEN Network Conference, Lund (Sweden) – Oels, Angela; Kaltenberg, Alina “Right to stay or climate mobilities: Mapping the discourse(s) on climate-induced mobilities in science and international politics from 2013 to 2023” – June 2024
• Brownbag Seminar Series, Center for Climate Resilience, Augsburg – Kaltenberg, Alina “Right to stay or free to move: Mapping the discourse(s) on climate-induced mobilities in science and international politics from Doha to Dubai” – May 2024

Science Communication

• Workshop LCOY Youth Climate Conference, Lüneburg – Alina Kaltenberg & Marie Fischer “Cut, Paste, Resist! Visualizing Climate Discourses” – October 2025
• Presentation Environmental Education Center Augsburg – Alina Kaltenberg “Beyond migration as adaptation: Analysing conflicting discourses on climate change and human mobility in international politics from Katowice to Baku” – December 2024
• Contributions to Public Climate School, University of Augsburg – ?November 2024