Carlotta Terhorst is a university assistant in the research group on "Socio-Ecological Transformation" (SET). She completed her Bachelor's degree in Cultural Studies at Maastricht University and spent a semester at the Universidad Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. For her Master's degree in International Relations, she attended the University Institute of Lisbon. Most recently, Carlotta worked as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, and she is now beginning her PhD studies at Johannes Kepler University (JKU).

Research Focus

In her research, Carlotta explores the history of economic thought, resistance to socio-ecological transformation, and the distributional dimensions of climate policy. Theoretically, she works at an interdisciplinary intersection of approaches from political science, sociology, and economics, while empirically employing qualitative research methods such as expert interviews, focus groups, discourse and document analysis, and ethnography. During her time at Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, she focused on the distributional aspects of the heat transition in Germany.