Stefanie Schramm has been a research assistant at the Borderstep Institute since April 2019 in the field of digitization and Green IT. Currently she supports the projects HotFlAd (waste heat recovery from compact data centers with hot fluid adsorption cooling system) and CliDiTrans (climate protection potentials of digital transformation).

Her main research interest is transdisciplinary research in the context of sustainable development. She gained her first practical experience in this field as part of the project Zukunftsstadt Lüneburg 2030+ during her master’s degree in sustainability science at Leuphana University Lüneburg. The aim of the project was to establish The Global Goals for Sustainable Development at the local level.

The focus of her studies in Lüneburg was on human scientific sustainability research. Stefanie Schramm obtained her bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering at the HTW Berlin. During her studies she worked as a student trainee at Solon in Quality Management and at Siemens in Supply Chain Management.

Stefanie gained practical experience in sustainability during her volunteer service in Kolkata (India) for the Deutsche Welthungerhilfe. There she worked in the area of Joint Forest Management. In her spare time she relaxes with yoga.