Dr Mia Wannewitz

Mia Wannewitz has been working as an evaluator since January 2026, focusing on qualitative methods in the Community of Practice (CoP) at DEval. Previously, as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Geography at LMU Munich, she led a research project on mainstreaming adaptation measures in urban development planning in Manila, Hanoi, and Bangkok.

She completed her master's degree at the United Nations University (UNU) and the University of Bonn. She then worked as a research assistant at UNU on research projects on urban heat adaptation, resilience of critical infrastructure, and policy coherence of the post-2015 agendas. She completed her doctorate at LMU in 2023 on the topic of collective climate change adaptation in socio-culturally diverse contexts, using Jakarta as an example.

Her professional focus is on climate change adaptation, urban development, risk, and social vulnerability—primarily investigated using qualitative methods of empirical social research.