Julia van den Berg is a research assistant for the Festay research project (Why Females Stay Despite Environmental Risk: Intergenerational Perspectives) and the Revisiting Climate-Cultures project, in the Department of International Development Studies. These projects centre around climate change adaptation, mobility, and intersectionality. She is also the network coordinator of the Cultures of Adaptation Network (CAN).

Her areas of interest and research experience are climate change adaptation, threat perception, resilience, migration, sense of belonging, racism and discrimination, and place attachment.

Julia holds a Master's degree in International Development Studies (graduated cum laude in 2023), and a Bachelor's degree in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (graduated in 2021) at Utrecht University.