Anna Rosa Ostern

Studied sociology at the University of Göttingen and psychology at the International Psychoanalytic University Berlin. Various student assistant positions in scientific projects, most recently on the significance of self-optimization in the transdisciplinary project “The measured Life” (Prof. Dr. Vera King, Prof. Dr. Benigna Gerisch, Prof. Dr. Hartmut Rosa). Since 2023, doctoral candidate in the doctoral program “Dialectics of Participation” at the IfS with a thesis on contradictory forms of withdrawal from late modern society – empirically examined in contemporary strategies of self-sufficiency. In 2023, research assistant in the pilot phase of the research project "Defense, Appropriation, Resistance. Conditions and Coping Modes of the Climate Crisis” at the IPU Berlin (Director: Prof. Dr. Christine Kirchhoff). In 2025, research stay at the University of Chicago (Department of Social Thought, Prof. Jonathan Lear).

Doctoral project: »Freiheit von ›der‹ Gesellschaft. Prepping und Öko-Individualismus als Formen eines widersprüchlichen Rückzug«