Dr. Vanessa Jaiteh is a transdisciplinary marine social scientist specialising in tropical fisheries governance, fishing livelihoods, working conditions at sea, and endangered species conservation. Her research bridges the social and natural sciences through extended fieldwork in West Africa, Oceania, Micronesia, and Southeast Asia, and sustained engagement with fishing communities, governments, and international organisations. Her SNSF Starting Grant project SIRENA…
Fernanda Figueroa is a full-time professor in the Department of Ecology and Natural Resources at the Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Her work lies at the intersection of political ecology, environmental governance, and socio-environmental justice, with a focus on the social processes shaping ecosystem conservation and transformation in rural and peri-urban contexts. Her work combines…
Anthropologist (PUJ, Colombia) with an MSc in Rural Development (PUJ, Colombia) and a PhD in Development Studies (Institute of Development Policy-IOB, University of Antwerp). He holds a postdoctoral fellowship at IOB-UAntwerp and is a research associate at the Center for Alternatives to Development-CEALDES in Colombia (https://oad-cealdes.org/). He works on transformative and collaborative research with rural communities, exploring struggles for…
SMW explores the sentient economy, cultures and transformations of elements and materializations. While forms and materials trace species and their social geopolitical context Winterling’s practice reflects upon aesthetic entanglements and power structures among human/ animal/ matter. Her time-based installations critically engage the representation of reality and investigate what pure information and form leaves out – including a sensual approach…
Elizabeth Shapiro-Garza is an Associate Professor of the Practice of Environmental Policy and Management at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. She serves as the Faculty Director for Community-Engaged Scholarship for the Nicholas School, the Director for Community Engagement for the Duke University Superfund Research Center and the Co-Chair of the Community Engagement and Environmental Justice…
I am a PhD student in sociology at Freie Universität Berlin, researching activisms and discourses on climate justice based on queer, decolonial and intersectional methods, concepts and ethics. I have worked in the past on gender, climate and energy justice issues, through project and knowledge management, qualitative research, participatory methods and fundraising with NGOs, UN agencies, foundations and think…
Anna-Lena Mieke is a PhD student in Environmental Science with a focus on social ecological system research at the University of Vienna, Austria. As a member of the Justice and Conservation Research Group, she contributes to interdisciplinary work on conservation and justice within complex social ecological systems. Her main research interests include political ecology, environmental justice, and the analysis…
With a background in development studies, Nora Katharina Faltmann works on social science perspectives on food and agriculture. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the project ‚Exploring values-based modes of production and consumption in the corporate food regime‘ in which she researches alternative food initiatives across rural mountain and urban areas in Switzerland. A further research focus lies…
Janina Dannenberg is a sustainability scientist with a specialisation on the intersection of gender and socio-ecological crisis and transformation. She leads the project “Nuclear Justice and Gender in the Sea of Islands” at the Institute of Geography, University of Hamburg. It focusses on the socio-ecological impacts of nuclear weapons and their interaction with climate changes through a gender lens…
Having a background in environmental sciences my focus shifted from natural sciences towards questions of responsibility and justice in my two masters programs on Environmental Ethics and Sustainability Science. Having studied in Lima, Lisbon and Kiel, I am passionate about coastal regions and inter- as well as transdisciplinary knowledge transfer. During my time at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact…
