Dr. Juliane Groth

Dr. Juliane Groth has been working as a researcher in the Innovative Regions Unit since June 2023, initially for the Fraunhofer Center for International Management and Knowledge Economy IMW in Leipzig. Since January 1, 2025, the unit has been part of Fraunhofer ISI in Leipzig. She is primarily involved in the development of an index for measuring and monitoring local living conditions in the context of regional transformation processes and the processing and analysis of official statistical, spatial and actor-related data in innovation systems.

She previously worked as a research assistant and doctoral candidate at the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig.

As part of her doctoral thesis entitled “The linkages between migration and environmental change in Ethiopia: Empirical evidence from rural sending and receiving areas”, she used qualitative and participatory methods (QCA, Bayesian networks) to research the interplay between various ecological, social, economic, institutional and political factors influencing migration decisions. Using an analytical-statistical approach, she showed the influence of migration on the living conditions of migrants and on the environment in the host society.

From 2015 to 2017, Juliane Groth was a researcher at the United Nations University at the Institute for Environmental and Human Secuirity (UNU-EHS) in Bonn, working on a project to create a risk and vulnerability index for northern Kyrgyzstan. Previously, she studied geography at the Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck (M. Sc.) and Dresden University of Technology (B. Sc.).

Juliane Groth has extensive experience in place-based social-ecological research, international field campaigns and qualitative-participatory as well as quantitative analytical approaches. She applies her diverse knowledge and skills at Fraunhofer ISI in various projects on the topics of regional structural change, knowledge networks, innovation dynamics and the evaluation of funding programs.