As a lawyer, he has been working as a teacher in the field of education for several years. In addition to his professional work, he conducts research on legal didactics. In his dissertation Polytome Rechtsdidaktik, he developed a microtheory of legal learning that deliberately takes into account the diverse application of law beyond the scope of lawyers’ professional practice. A…
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…
Researcher in the Department of Media Technology at the University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg and is a PhD candidate at Leuphana University, Lüneburg. She is currently working on the North Sea Region Interreg research project DARKER SKY. The project’s overall aim is to reduce light pollution, thereby increasing biodiversity and ecological connectivity in the North Sea Region. Within the…
Tobias Müller is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and Isaac Newton Trust, Fellow at the CRASSH and Bye-Fellow at Queens’ College, University of Cambridge, where he received his PhD in Politics and International Studies. Previously, he held research and teaching positions at Cape Town, Leiden, Hamburg, Oxford, UNAM and Yale. Tobias is Principal Investigator of the project «Democratic Futures: Climate…
Laura has a background in public health, public policy, and sociology. She is a Research Associate at the University of Bielefeld and a PhD candidate at the University of Hamburg. Her dissertation explores the role of conceptual frameworks and analytical models in environmental health research. It examines how these frameworks capture the complexity of human–environment interactions and highlights the…
For the last 10 years Barbara Dombrowski dedicated her work to places affected by climate change. She focused on five relevant and specific climate localities on every continent and their indigenous population: Achuar in Ecuador, Inuit in East Greenland, mongolian Nomads in Desert Gobi, Maasai in the Republic of Tansania and Micronesians in Kiribati. Man-made climate change is not…
Political scientist, political ecologist and scholar-activist at the Chair of Global Climate Governance at the University of Hamburg and member of the research group “GLOCALPOWER – Funds, Tools and Networks for an African Energy Transition”. My research focus is on socio-ecological transformation, transition conflicts and energy and climate justice. A specific focus is on the role of social movements…
She is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Department of Political Science at the University of Hamburg and an associated researcher to the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA). Her research focuses on contested international norms, more specifically on the rights of indigenous peoples in the context of conflicts over resources and land. Conceptually, she brings…
Human geographer and currently working as Research Associate at the Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies “Futures of Sustainability” at the University of Hamburg. His dissertation focused on the political geographies of the struggles for food sovereignty in Bolivia where he conducted several months of ethnographic research. His main research interests are political geography, political ecology, geographies of food, and…
