Dr. Nikola Nölle is a cultural anthropologist with a focus on empirical cultural studies. She is particularly interested in how people share knowledge and form groups, and how collaborative methods and tools can be used to explore and shape these processes. Since December 2023, she has been working at the TD-Lab – Laboratory for Transdisciplinary and Participatory Research at the Berlin University Alliance, with a focus on knowledge exchange and network building, especially for the ON WATER programs. Previously, at the Chair of Empirical Cultural Studies at the University of Würzburg, she designed the teaching project “Kulturwissen vermitteln” (“Mediating Cultural Knowledge”), which resulted in the YouTube channel featuring the explainer video series “überalltag. kultur erklärt” (“everyday culture explained”). She received her doctorate in 2022 at the University of Freiburg in the DFG funded project “Doing Popular Culture” with an ethnography on Gothic festivals (published in 2024). In the summer semester of 2025, she holds a lectureship at the Institute for Cultural Studies at Leipzig University, teaching a collaborative practice seminar on urban waste. She is also a co-initiator of several feminist educational and cultural projects and enjoys writing texts on pop culture and other everyday phenomena.