Maureen Schulze

Maureen Schulze serves as Junior Professor for Sustainable Purchasing and Consumption Behavior at Leuphana University Lüneburg's Centre for Sustainability Management (CSM) since February 2025. Her interdisciplinary research integrates marketing, economics, agricultural science, and psychology to analyze sustainable transformation dynamics and consumer behavior patterns.

Her academic background includes:

• Doctoral studies on 'Transformation processes in intensive livestock farming' at Georg-August-University Göttingen (2017-2020)
• Master of Science in Agricultural Economics from Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel (2013-2016)

Her current research examines market mechanisms that either facilitate or obstruct sustainable consumer choices, with emphasis on behavioral interventions and policy implications. She maintains active collaborations through research stays at Wageningen University & Research and Aarhus University.

As part of CSM, she contributes to the university's sustainability research ecosystem while teaching courses on sustainable consumption frameworks.