Jenniver is an editor of the Central Asian Journal of Water Research (CAJWR), and a visiting scientist at the International Forest Policy Research Group at the University of Helsinki.
From 2009 to 2018, she worked for different organisations engaged in supporting water cooperation, including the European Union, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the German Federal Foreign Office, and the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). In these positions, she analysed and advised on security-related aspects of water and environment, and was involved in several water governance and diplomacy programmes, particularly in Central Asia.
Before that, Jenniver worked at several German universities. At the Centre for International Development and Environmental Research (ZEU) of the University of Giessen, she was a junior researcher in an interdisciplinary project on water shortage, water management and water conflicts in Central Asia. Subsequently, she was a lecturer at the Institute of Political Science of the FernUniversitat in Hagen and assistant professor in comparative politics at the University of Wurzburg (Germany).
Jenniver studied Political Science and Social Anthropology at the University of Mainz (Germany). She completed her PhD in 2008 at the FernUniverstat in Hagen with a thesis on the politics of water institutional reforms in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
Modules in DKU: Water Governance and Cooperation