Daniela Ana - Postdoctoral Researcher

Daniela Ana is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO). Trained in anthropology at the Central European University (MA, June 2015) in Budapest, Hungary, and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (PhD, July 2019) in Halle, Germany. She specializes in qualitative research methods, primarily participant observation and ethnographic interviews. Regionally, she focuses on the Republic of Moldova and Romania, as well as Germany. Her research interests include human-environment relations, anthropology of food and wine, soil knowledge and soil care practices, labour studies, and migration.

Lucas Hoferer ­­– master student

My name is Lucas Hoferer and I'm studying Economics: Data Science and Policy at the Martin Luther University in Halle. As part of the RuWell project, I am working on my master's thesis, which focuses on subjective well-being and livability in rural areas. The core of the thesis lies in the development of a livability concept for rural areas. The developed concept is afterwards compared with the existing empirical evidence of the World Data Base of Happiness. The results provide a suitable starting point to pursue further research questions regarding subjective well-being and livability in rural areas.