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…
Anthropologist of health, the environment and collective experimentation. She currently studies community-based initiatives, including citizen science and technologies, to assess and adapt to environmental degradation, as a postdoctoral researcher at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam. She has been working on various topics related to human-environment relations, science and technology studies, citizen science, and global…
Claudia Horn completed her Ph.D. in International Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her book manuscript, The Environment for Finance. How International Projects Shape Land and Rights in the Brazilian Amazon, is under revision and projected for publication in 2026. It critically examines G7 environmental aid to Brazil’s Amazon and the building and local contestations…
Dr. Rosa Felicitas Philipp is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Economic and Social Geography Group at Heidelberg University. She completed her PhD at the University of Bern with the dissertation “Defensa de la vida (Defence of Life): Infrastructured Bodies, Care and Resistance at the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.” In her doctoral research, she examined the resistance of Indigenous women against…
Madlen Kobi is assistant professor at the Unit of Social Anthropology at the University of Fribourg and leads the research project «Urban Bricolage. Mining, Designing and Constructing With Reused Building Materials“ (SNSF-PRIMA, 2022-2026). The project investigates at the intersection of anthropology and architecture the practical challenges of reusing building materials in selected European countries. The analysis of reuse practices…
Silke Oldenburg is a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Basel, Switzerland. She is the PI of the research project “Space, Agency and Climate Change in a Contested Urban Landscape: Exploring Urban Environmental Futures in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia”, funded by the Leading House of the Latin American Region, Switzerland. She integrates critical urban theory approaches…
Mirja Schoderer is a transdisciplinary researcher with expertise in environmental justice, political ecology, water, mining and conservation. She is an assistant professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where she explores the uneven green transition, focusing on the extraction of critical raw materials and on how frontline communities experience and conceptualize extraction that takes place under the green transition paradigm. Her…
Paola Villavicencio Calzadilla, legal scholar and environmental law researcher I am a Bolivian legal scholar specializing in environmental and climate change law, climate justice and environmental governance at the intersection of law, policy, and human rights. I hold a PhD in International Climate Change Law and a Master’s in Environmental Law from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Spain….
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 (Lizzy) Privitera is a transdisciplinary researcher and practitioner with expertise in community urban planning, environmental justice, environmental humanities, and political ecology. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Canada Excellence Research Chair Network for Equity in Sustainability Transitions (CERC NEST) at the University of Toronto Scarborough. At the same university, she co-led the Just Transitions in Action…
