Miss Salome Gikonyo is a young researcher and environmentalist specializing in sustainability, transformative research and environmental management. She is an award-winning scholar of the leadership for Africa scholarship Award issued by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) January 2023. She is currently pursuing master’s degree in Sustainability at Kiel university Germany. She has served as a research assistant at…
Luis Rubén González Márquez is postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Inter-American Politics and Research (CIPR). He recently earned a PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Merced. He holds a B.A. in History from the University of El Salvador (UES), and a M.A. in Sociology from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, Ecuador (FLACSO Ecuador). Luis…
Gül Özerol is an assistant professor at the Department of Governance and Technology (CSTM), University of Twente. She is a social-environmental scientist, specializing in public policy and focusing on water, energy and climate change. Her current research focuses on water governance, energy transition and climate resilience in diverse political, social and ecological contexts of the North Sea Region and…
Politikwissenschaftler mit Schwerpunkt Politische Ökologie und Scholar-Activism am Lehrstuhl für Globale Klimapolitik an der Universität Hamburg und Mitglied der Forschungsgruppe „GLOCALPOWER – Funds, Tools and Networks for an African Energy Transition“. Meine Forschungsinteressen sind sozial-ökologische Transformation, Transformationskonflikte sowie Energie- und Klimagerechtigkeit. Ein besonderer Schwerpunkt liegt auf der Rolle von sozialen Bewegungen und Gewerkschaften in sozial-ökoloischen Transformationsprozessen. Land/Interessenregion/Forschungsschwerpunkt: Deutschland, Südafrika…
Senior Researcher at the artec Sustainability Research Center, Universität Bremen. Her current research focuses on multiple and multiscale (in-)justices in energy transitions, in particular hydrogen transitions. Further research focuses on sustainable regional and urban development, sustainable mobility, environmental governance, adaptation to climate change and participation. Country/Region of interest/research focus: Germany, Europe, Belize, Kenia, soon (in the context of hydrogen…
I am an experienced urban sustainability researcher who helps policymakers make evidence-based and equity-focused decisions. Over the past seven years at the World Resources Institute, I have authored almost 20 research publications using both qualitative and quantitative methods. My main areas of expertise are urban policy and planning, equity analysis of environmental policies, multi-level governance, just transitions, mobility, and…
Wendy Chávez is an economist (Polytechnic School of Guayaquil, Ecuador) and holds a master’s degree in public administration (New York, USA) and a master’s degree in human settlements (KU Leuven, Belgium). She is a junior researcher and PhD student in Political and Cultural Change at the Center for Development Research of the University of Bonn. Her thesis project is…
Elisa Privitera (Lizzy) is a researcher and practitioner, contributing to spatial environmental justice-related initiatives and with experiences in Italy, Canada, California, and Sweden. Her work draws on participatory planning, environmental humanities, political ecology, environmental justice and South studies. Lizzy has achieved significant academic milestones, including being awarded a Fulbright fellowship for a research exchange at the University of California,…
Isabelle Desportes is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre Marc Bloch, An-Institut at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, and lecturer at the RWTH Aachen. She researches the (hidden) politics of disaster prevention and humanitarian response, including in authoritarian conflict settings, and co-coordinates the Centre Marc Bloch’s research group on ‘Environment, Climate, Energy’ since October 2024. Her current research project,…
Friedrich Neu ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Umweltsozialwissenschaften und Geographie an der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. Hinsichtlich der Lehre liegt sein Schwerpunkt auf Klimawandelanpassung, welche er in Seminaren zu Anpassungsprozessen im Globalen Süden sowie Exkursionen in die Schweiz oder Ghana thematisiert. Die aktuelle Forschung im Rahmen seiner Dissertation fußt auf dem Zusammenwirken von durch Teile der Menschheit induziertem Klima- und…
