Nikola is from Germany and is a Ph.D. candidate at the Chair of Social and Institutional Change in Agricultural Development at the University of Hohenheim since 2019. She obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Sciences from the University of Hohenheim (2016) and her Master’s degree in International Development Management from the University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus (2018). Nikola’s Ph.D. research was funded by a scholarship awarded by the Landesgraduiertenförderung Baden-Württemberg. She is an external consultant at the Independent Office of IFAD and teaches a course on development studies at Hochschule Rottenburg. Her second home is Malaysia, where she spends a lot of time since she volunteered there in 2012.
