Mirjam is a postdoctoral researcher at the Central European University working on the CCINDLE project. She has a mixed social science background in Gender Studies (CEU), Human Geography (UCL) and Sociology (University of Leeds).  Mirjam has recently submitted her PhD dissertation to the Social and Economic Geography Department of Eötvös Loránd University focusing on the ways in which fear affects public space and democracy. She is a member of the HerStory collective which is an informal feminist organisation collecting women’s narratives of their life with a special interest in green feminism.