Marie Meemken

Dr. Marie Meemken is a Research Fellow at the Department Biodiversity & People at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig. Her research focuses on the risks and benefits of biodiversity and nature experience on human health, using deep phenotyping datasets and epidemiological methods. She emphasizes synthesizing nature values for policy frameworks and designing urban environments to enhance health and wellbeing. Her work combines neurophysiological experiments (EEG/MRI) with behavioral tasks, questionnaires, and anthropometric measures to explore health-behavior interactions.

Education: M.Sc. Neurocognitive Psychology (Carl-von-Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, 2023) and B.Sc. Psychology (Bremen University, 2010). She completed her doctoral research on appetite learning in obesity at the Max-Planck-Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences (Leipzig University, 2020).

Key affiliations include the ValuGaps project and the Biodiversity & Health research group. She contributes to interdisciplinary teams exploring ecosystem services, citizen science, and climate adaptation strategies. Her work bridges ecological and health sciences to inform sustainable urban planning and policy.