In a nutshell
Anne (she/her) was born in a country that no longer exists: the German Democratic Republic. She spent most of her youth and adult life in unified Germany and is based in the larger metropolitan area of Berlin. Anne is a practice-based researcher interested in multimodal, collaborative, arts-based, experimental, and decolonial approaches to knowledge production. Her positionality as an East German-German and her experience living in unified Germany after the peaceful revolution have shaped how she approaches her work, giving her sensitivity to unequal power relations, biases, and preconceived narratives. Overall, she enjoys spending time with people who care and taking long walks with her companions Filou and Toni.
Also
Anne currently works as a Research Associate in the research group reIMAGINE Arctic Research: Relations, Ethics, and Methods at the Research Institute for Sustainability | GFZ (RIFS). She received her PhD from the Anthropology Department at Aarhus University in Denmark, while serving as a fellow in the Participatory Memory Practices (POEM) research network, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. In her dissertation, Anne offers a reflection on the particularities of executing a research project with young Kalaallit (Greenlandic) adults in Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) and Denmark, research sites marked by contemporary colonial dependencies, structures, and domination. She uses multimodality and collaboration as overall methodological frames to think with and to (co-)create knowledge. During her PhD, she received the SVA/Lemelson Fellowship from the American Society for Visual Anthropology (SVA).
She is currently involved in two EU-funded research projects: ICEBERG, an international, interdisciplinary project that studies Arctic ocean and coastal pollution in Europe and collaborates with communities on governance and resilience strategies. BIRGEJUPMI strengthens community engagement, Indigenous knowledge, and relational environmental decision-making in coastal regions of Sápmi and Kalaallit Nunaat. In ICEBERG, she leads Task 4.2 on ethics and evaluation, and in BIRGEJUPMI she co-leads Tasks 1.3 and 10.3 with researchers from the University of Oulu, focusing on establishing research infrastructures that support continuous dialogue, reflexive evaluation, and methodological learning. In her most recent work, she focuses on environmental transformation, embodied experiences, and knowledge production in Sápmi and Germany in relation to the EU’s green transition.
Her short documentaries Memory is Not About the Past (2017 | 19min | Germany), Beirut in Two Words (2014 | 29min | Lebanon) and Looking for Mr. Right Now (2015 | 15min | Germany) were invited to various film festivals, such as the Society for Visual and Media Anthropology Film Media Festival, USA – 2016, NAFA Filmfest Bergen, Norway – 2016, Ethnocineca Vienna, Austria – 2015 and the Lebanese Film Festival Australia – 2014. Anne has worked in media installation and theatre production since 2004 and founded her own business, Pixelmarie, as a sole proprietor. She has experience in project management and consulting, content creation, show control and video design and has worked on a wide range of productions around the world. Her photo-book Roaming the Cities was published in 2014 and is a collection of photographs from that period in her life, portraying her personal perceptions of Beirut, Tokyo, Beijing, Yerevan, London and New York.
Contact: anne.chahine@rifs-potsdam.de
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Research and Work Experience
Since 2025 Research Associate, Research Institute for Sustainability at GFZ (RIFS)
2026 Visiting Researcher The Arctic University of Norway (UiT), Indigenous Voices of Research group, Alta Campus, Norway
2024-2025 Interim Research Group Lead, Research Institute for Sustainability at GFZ (RIFS)
2022-2024 Research Associate, Research Institute for Sustainability at GFZ (RIFS)
2018-2022 Research Assistant (PhD fellow) Aarhus University, Denmark
2019-2020 Visiting Researcher Museum Europäischer Kulturen Berlin, Germany
2019 Visiting Researcher Nunatta Katersugaasivia Allagaateqarfialu – Greenland National Museum and Archives, Nuuk, Greenland
2004-2018 Founder and Owner of sole proprietorship Pixelmarie – Audio-visual production design and consultation services
Education
2018-2022 PhD at the Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
2014-2016 Master of Arts in Visual and Media Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
2010-2014 Bachelor of Arts in Media Design, University of Applied Science Cologne, Germany
2001-2014 Specialist for Event Engineering, Siemens Media Academy Berlin, Germany