Sophia Dasch has been working as a Project Manager at ConPolicy since October 2024, leading projects in the areas of consumer behavior and consumer policy. She has methodological expertise in conducting and analyzing quantitative and qualitative studies, as well as creating experimental designs. Her main topics include sustainability communication, sustainable consumption, education for sustainable development, and digitalization.
Sophia Dasch completed her studies in psychology at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Brown University (USA), and the University of Sussex (UK), with a focus on environmental psychology. She has published in academic journals on the psychology of environmental action and co-authored the book “Klimabewegt – Die Psychologie von Klimaprotest und Engagement” (The Psychology of Collective Climate Action), published by oekom in 2024. Since 2021, she has been a board member of Wandelwerk e.V., a non-profit educational collective dedicated to applying psychological research to practical environmental protection. She is also a member of the Initiative Psychology in Environmental Protection (IPU e.V.) and the International Society of Political Psychology.
Prior to joining ConPolicy, Sophia Dasch conducted research at Leipzig University as part of a European project on the psychology of the energy transition. Previously, she served as a project manager in the project “CO2ero – Wege zum Klimaschutz”, where she supported schools in implementing climate protection measures. She also gained experience as a student assistant at the Ecological Research Network (Ecornet) and as a member of the R.I.S.E. Lab at Brown University, where she researched the perception of fairness in machine learning.