Melanie Troppe studies environmental systems/science and technology at the Karl-Franzens-University and Technical University in Graz. Since 2017 she has been working in the field of traffic education as a cycling trainer and thus found her way into project-related work in the field of mobility. From 2019-2021 she worked at FGM in national and international projects. In July 2021, Melanie started her work as a researcher at IFZ.