Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI
Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI

Dr. Josephine Tröger

Researcher

Since April 2021, Dr. Josephine Tröger has been working as a researcher and project manager in the Department of Energy Policy and Energy Markets in the Business Unit Actors and Acceptance in the Transformation of the Energy System.

As part of her research activities, Josephine Tröger focuses intensively on environmental attitudes, particularly sufficiency orientation in consumer behaviour. She conducts research on attitude changes and interventions to promote sufficiency-oriented behaviour. She uses both quantitative and experimental methods of empirical social research to evaluate the effectiveness of these interventions and gain sound insights.

Josephine Tröger studied psychology (graduate degree) with a minor in Literature, Arts and Media at the Universities of Konstanz, Monterrey (Mexico) and Catania (Italy). From 2012 to 2016, she worked as a research assistant in the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Environmental Issues at the University of Koblenz-Landau. From 2018 to 2021, she was a research assistant and lecturer in the Environmental Psychology Research Group at the University of Koblenz-Landau, where she completed her PhD on sufficiency orientation as a key to socio-ecological transformation and worked on several other research projects. In addition to expertise in Environmental Psychology, she gained professional experience in the fields of science communication and event management. 

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