Thanh-Tu Mai

Mai Thanh Tu is a PhD candidate at the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) and Humboldt University of Berlin. Since March 2024, she has been conducting her doctoral research as part of the DFG-funded FairPES project. Her research focuses on rural transformation, ethnic equity, and the social dimensions of forest conservation in Vietnam. She is particularly interested in how social and cultural changes shape the diverse ways in which ethnic minority communities perceive, value, and interact with forests.