Eva Backhaus studied philosophy and biology in Frankfurt (Germany). In 2022 she finished her PhD on the interdependency of action and perception (Frankfurt/Berkeley). Currently, she works as a Post-Doc at the the Collaborative Research Centre Intervening Arts at Freie Universität Berlin. Her research deals with question of human-nature interaction concerning specifically different concepts of human and non-human action and question of sustainability. She is also an arborist.