Verena Sandner Le Gall has been working as a researcher and lecturer at the Universities of Kiel and Flensburg (since 2013) in Northern Germany. Her research currently focuses on migration, belonging and exclusion of Roma migrating within the European Union and specifically from Romania to Germany. Her PhD project was dedicated at studying Indigenous Knowledge and Resource Management Systems in Central America, working with Kuna (Panama) and Miskito (Nicaragua). Within the broad Political Ecology frameworks, the research dealt with the transformation of communities and institutions regulating resource use, from myths to laws, as well as with self-determination and the role of external actors and forces. Another project aimed at understanding translocal ties between coastal and urban Indigenous communities of rural-urban migratns from the semi-autonomous region of the Kuna. Since 2004, she has taught Human Geography courses, mainly in urban, population and political geography and qualitative methods, and published a German textboook on population geography.