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

Dr. Juliane Groth

Researcher

Dr. Juliane Groth has been working as a researcher in the Innovative Regions Unit since June 2023, initially for the Fraunhofer Center for International Management and Knowledge Economy IMW in Leipzig. Since January 1, 2025, the unit has been part of Fraunhofer ISI in Leipzig. She is primarily involved in the development of an index for measuring and monitoring local living conditions in the context of regional transformation processes and the processing and analysis of official statistical, spatial and actor-related data in innovation systems.

She previously worked as a research assistant and doctoral candidate at the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig.

As part of her doctoral thesis entitled “The linkages between migration and environmental change in Ethiopia: Empirical evidence from rural sending and receiving areas”, she used qualitative and participatory methods (QCA, Bayesian networks) to research the interplay between various ecological, social, economic, institutional and political factors influencing migration decisions. Using an analytical-statistical approach, she showed the influence of migration on the living conditions of migrants and on the environment in the host society.

From 2015 to 2017, Juliane Groth was a researcher at the United Nations University at the Institute for Environmental and Human Secuirity (UNU-EHS) in Bonn, working on a project to create a risk and vulnerability index for northern Kyrgyzstan. Previously, she studied geography at the Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck (M. Sc.) and Dresden University of Technology (B. Sc.).

Juliane Groth has extensive experience in place-based social-ecological research, international field campaigns and qualitative-participatory as well as quantitative analytical approaches. She applies her diverse knowledge and skills at Fraunhofer ISI in various projects on the topics of regional structural change, knowledge networks, innovation dynamics and the evaluation of funding programs.

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    • Geography of discontent und left-behind places
    • Knowledge networks
    • Human migration and local livelihoods
    • Social-ecological systems

  • Jahr
    Year    		Titel/Autor:in
    Title/Author    		Publikationstyp
    Publication Type
    2026 Wachstum stärken – Mittelstandsbericht Thüringen 2025
    Stahlecker, Thomas; Ragnitz, Joachim; Hansmeier, Hendrik; Landsberger, Albert; Puteanus, Kyra; Kluth, Ricarda; Zenker, Andrea; Groth, Juliane; Koschatzky, Knut; Schnabl, Esther    		 Bericht
    Report
    2025 Quantentechnologien und Quanten-Ökosysteme
    Schmaltz, Thomas; Endo, Chie; Groth, Juliane; Eßwein, Robin; Gruber, Sonia; Kroll, Henning; Molina Vogelsang, Manuel; Neuhäusler, Peter; Weymann, Lukas    		 Bericht
    Report
    2025 Hidden Struggles: An Index for a Spatially Nuanced Understanding of Left-Behindness in Saxonian Municipalities in the Context of the German Coal Phase-out
    Willing, Lukas; Groth, Juliane; Klement, Benjamin    		 Vortrag
    Presentation
    2023 A future agenda for research on climate change and human mobility
    Oakes, Robert; Geest, Kees Van der; Schraven, Benjamin; Adaawen, Stephen; Ayeb-Karlsson, Sonja; Sherbinin, Alex De; Etzold, Benjamin; Groth, Juliane; Hermanns, Kathleen; Lakeman, Silvana; Nawrotzki, Raphael; Rademacher-Schulz, Christina; Romankiewic, Clemens; Serraglio, Diogo; Sterly, Harald; Thalheimer, Lisa; Wiederkehr, Charlotte; Williams, David    		 Zeitschriftenaufsatz
    Journal Article
    2023 What we know and do not know about reciprocal pathways of environmental change and migration: lessons from Ethiopia
    Hermans, Kathleen; Wiederkehr, Charlotte; Groth, Juliane; Sakdapolrak, Patrick    		 Zeitschriftenaufsatz
    Journal Article
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    Other publications

    • Groth, Juliane (2023): The linkages between migration and environmental change in Ethopia : empirical evidence from rural sending and receiving areas. (Dissertation)
    • Groth, J.; Seppelt, R.; Sakdapolrak, P.; Senbeta, F.; Hermans, K. (2023). Why smallholders stop engaging in forest activities: the role of in-migration in livelihood transitions in forested landscapes of southwestern Ethiopia. In: Ecology and Society 28 (1), S. 52. DOI: 10.5751/ES-14022-280152.
    • Fischer, J.; Egli, L.; Groth, J.; Barrasso, C.; Ehrmann, S.; Figgemeier, H. et al. (2023). Approaches and tools for user-driven provenance and data quality information in spatial data infrastructures. International Journal of Digital Earth, 16(1), 1510–1529. DOI: 10.1080/17538947.2023.2198778.
    • Hubertus, L.; Groth, J.; Teucher, M.; Hermans, K. (2023): Rainfall changes perceived by farmers and captured by meteorological data: two sides to every story. In: Regional Environmental Change 23 (2), S. 75. DOI: 10.1007/s10113-023-02064-9.
    • Norström, A. V.; Agarwal, B.; Balvanera, P.; Baptiste, B.; Bennett, E. M., Brondízio, E.; Biggs, R.; Campbell, B.; Carpenter, S. R.; Castilla, J. C.; Castro, A. J.; Cramer, W.; Cumming, G. S.; Felipe-Lucia, M.; Fischer, J.; Folke, C.; DeFries, R.; Gelcich, S.; Groth, J. et al. (2022). The programme on ecosystem change and society (PECS) – a decade of deepening social-ecological research through a place-based focus. In: Ecosystems and People 18 (1), S. 598–608. DOI: 10.1080/26395916.2022.2133173.
    • Hermans, K.; Berger, E.; Biber-Freudenberger, L.; Bossenbroek, L.; Ebeler, L.; Groth, J. et al. (2021). Crisis-induced disruptions in place-based social-ecological research – an opportunity for redirection. In: GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society 30 (2), S. 72–76. DOI: 10.14512/gaia.30.2.3.
    • Groth, J.; Hermans, K.; Wiederkehr, C.; Kassa, E.; Thober, J. (2021). Investigating environment-related migration processes in Ethiopia – A participatory Bayesian network. In: Ecosystems and People 17 (1), S. 128–147. DOI: 10.1080/26395916.2021.1895888.
    • Groth, J.; Hermans, K.; Ide, T.; Kassa, E.; Sakdapolrak, P. (2020). Deciphering interwoven drivers of environment-related migration – A multisite case study from the Ethiopian highlands. In: Global Environmental Change 63, S. 102094. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102094.
    • Dietze, M.; Groth, J.; Kleber, A. (2013). Alignment of stone-pavement clasts by unconcentrated overland flow – implications of numerical and physical modelling. In: Earth Surf. Process. Landforms 38 (11), S. 1234–1243. DOI: 10.1002/esp.3365.