Dr. Lilliana Stefanovic

Lilliana holds a diploma in agricultural sciences and a joint international master’s degree of the University of Kassel and Fulda University of Applied Sciences. In March 2021 Lilliana has successfully completed her PhD on the topic “Basis for monitoring the performance of sustainable development goals in organic food systems: A first approximation”. In her dissertation Lilliana was analysing the organic food systems’ transformation vis-à-vis the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals using three European case studies. An actor-oriented approach has been applied for the analysis. The PhD was carried out within the framework of the cooperative graduate platform “Food economy and technology” (financed by the Federal Hessian Ministry of Higher Education, Research, Sciences and the Arts). Lilliana is a research associate at the Department. Till end of July 2022 she has been coordinating the research project "How can or­ganic/bio­dy­namic food sys­tems con­trib­ute to the so­ci­etal trans­form­a­tion to­wards sus­tain­ab­il­ity?" supported by the Software AG Foundation.

Between 1 October 2022 und 30 June 2024 Lilliana was coordinating the SysOrg project and since 01 July 2023 she is leading and taking over part of the research work in the "NEUE WEGE" ("New Pathways") project.

Since 01.01.2024, Lilliana has been involved as a representative of the Women's and Equal Opportunities Officer being a member of the corresponding team of Faculty 11 in Witzenhausen.