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.

Since 1 October 2022 Lilliana is coordinating the SysOrg project and since 16 August 2023 - the "NEUE WEGE" ("New Pathways") project.

Other than this she is involved in teaching in master programmes IFBC and SIA (modules "Consumer science and sustainable consumption", "Sustainable diets", "Principles of organic farming" und "Recent development in food and nutritional sciences").