Katharina Holec is a PhD student in the project CIMT (Citizen Involvement in Mobility Transitions) at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf since 2019. After completing her bachelor’s degree in social sciences at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf, she studied Sociology and Social Research at the University of Cologne. In her dissertation project she works on questions of descriptive and substantive representation and legitimacy through consultative participation processes concerning mobility transitions and the redistribution of urban space.