Marlene Batzke is a visiting researcher at LABSS-CNR. Marlene Batzke is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Environmental Systems Research at the University of Kassel (Germany). She is a member of the research group Environmental Systems Analysis and Environmental Psychology, where she completed her PhD in Psychology in 2023.

She is interested in norm internalization and change, belief change, cooperation and pro-environmental behavior, and decision-making in conflict situations. In her research she combines theory building, online, lab, and field experiments, and agent-based simulations.