Antje Disterheft is a researcher and integrated member at Center for Environmental and Sustainability Research (CENSE), from NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon. She is enthusiastic about exploring transformative processes that can support keeping human-nature systems in balance.
Her research focuses on capacity building and new approaches to collaboration and co-creation for sustainability in Higher Education Institutions. For this reason, she is part of the Portuguese network “Sustainable Campus”(RCS) and member of the network’s executive commission since 2019. In the past years, she started to engage deeper with the lens of care when thinking about sustainability and founded The CareLab for People & Planet at her faculty. The CareLab is a new space of collaboration, co-creation and transformative learning where the interlinkages of inner and outer sustainability are explored.
She holds a PhD in Social Sustainability (Universidade Aberta) and is an alumni of the Postdoc Academy for Transformational Leadership. German by nationality, but living in Portugal for more than 16 years, she enjoys being in nature, biking and cooking.
