Franziska Marliese Fröhlich

Franziska Marliese Fröhlich is a postdoctoral scholar in the Lise Meitner Research Group “China in the Global System of Science” at the MPIWG. In her current research projects, she looks at consumer responsibilization at the intersection of food consumption and the environment in consumer advice, as well as science communication and the popular understanding of science in China. More broadly, her research interests include governance, responsibilization, and subject-making in contemporary China. 

Franziska holds an MA in India Studies and a BA in Modern China Studies from Würzburg University and spent part of her studies at Fudan University in Shanghai, Peking University, as well as Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. In 2023, she received her PhD in Sinology from the University of Würzburg with a dissertation on discourses about food and the environment in China. Her doctoral research was funded by scholarships of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service as well as the China Scholarship Council. 

Prior to joining the MPIWG in June 2023, she worked as a lecturer and research fellow in English Literature and Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Würzburg and served as the managing director of the European Chinese Language and Culture Program at Peking University.