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Pauline Heger

PhD Student/Research Associate

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Pauline Heger is a research associate in the research programme“Digital Democratic Innovations“.

She has been on the doctoral list at TU Dresden since August 2023. The working title of her dissertation is: “Mapping Social Acceptance of Green Innovation in Urban Settings”. The goal: to better understand social processes that result from the interaction between politics and civil society when innovative technologies are to be integrated into urban living spaces. She has a particular interest in climate-friendly technologies.
She has also been teaching at TU Dresden since October 2023. As a guest lecturer, she supports the Bachelor’s programme in Media Research for the winter semester until March 2024.

Curriculum vitae

  • Since February 2022 at CAIS at the research program DDI
  • 2022: Master of Arts in Digital Media Communication at RWTH Aachen University
  • 2019 to 2022 Freelancer at WDR
  • 2017 to 2019 Working student at WDR
  • 2018 Bachelor of Arts in German Studies, Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Bonn

  • Heger, P., Bieber, C., Hendawy, M. & Shooshtari, A. (2025). Co-creating urban transformation: a stakeholder analysis for Germany’s heat transition. Buildings & Cities, 6(1), 1046–1060. https://doi.org/10.5334/bc.613
  • Hendawy, M., Baum, J., Cenan, A., Frechen, N., Goldmann, A., Heger, P., & Bieber, C. (2025). After the hype: The uncertain future of Smart Cities. In T. Kox, A. Ullrich & H. Zech (Eds.), Uncertain Journeys into Digital Futures (pp. 283–296). Nomos. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748947585-283

Pauline Heger

PhD Student/Research Associate

E-Mail: pauline.heger@cais-research.de

Bereich: Digital Democratic Innovations
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