Elisabeth Krueger was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Princeton Environmental Institute, affiliated with PEI’s Center for BioComplexity and the Andlinger Center for Energy and Environment. Elisabeth studied how human–environment interactions were mediated through infrastructure and institutions, especially in urban areas. She investigated the effects that different urban designs and governance strategies could have on local and global sustainability outcomes. She modeled trade-offs between security, resilience, and sustainability across scales, as well as across critical service sectors such as water and energy supply.

Her interests covered the mechanisms of, and emergent spatial and temporal patterns resulting from, human–environment interactions, as well as cognitive processes that determined perceptions of risks and benefits at the human–environment interface.

Elisabeth completed her PhD in the Interdisciplinary Ecological Sciences and Engineering Program at Purdue University (Indiana) in 2019 and had previously worked as a research manager at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ in Germany.

Elisabeth now works at the University of Amsterdam as an Assistant Professor.