Katriona is a research fellow at Ecologic Institute, Berlin (DE) with a PhD from the University of East Anglia, Norwich (UK). Her research focuses on climate adaptation with an emphasis on recognition, onto-epistemic justice and knowledge politics. Katriona works with creative and participatory methods to encourage critical engagement with dominant ways of thinking about climate change. Katriona has also…
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…
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…
Lila Sax dos Santos Gomes leads Yarrow Global Consulting gGmbH, a non-profit consulting firm based in Germany that operates at the intersection of health and the environment with a special focus on intersectional feminist approaches to socio-ecological transformation processes. She is an experienced facilitator, project manager, and gender expert with extensive expertise in participatory methods and capacity building. She…
PhD student (she/her) researching on the intersection of transdisciplinarity, art, and critical sustainability at the EcoArtLab. She is involved with the Institute of Geography at the University of Bern and the Bern Academy of the Arts (HKB). She focuses on transdisciplinary research in art and climate science collaborations: Investigating methodologies, procedures, and practices to reach epistemic justice in terms of knowledge…
Dr. Jinat Hossain is a Post-doctoral Researcher at the Department of Geography, University of Zurich, and a Scientific Researcher at the Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Switzerland. A feminist scholar, her work spans trans/interdisciplinary themes, with a particular focus on feminist political ecology, climate change adaptation and development politics, transformative change, epistemic justice and the feminist political economy…
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….
For over two decades, I’ve been researching and teaching in the areas of energy system transformation, climate change adaptation, sustainable urban and regional development, and stakeholder and citizen participation. My work is deeply interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary, shaped by close collaboration with civil society, private companies, and public institutions. Since 2018, I’ve been a senior researcher at artec – the…
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…
Shuma Talukdar is a Corporate Lawyer and a Corporate Governance Professional from India. She is the Director of LexEd Research an independent think-tank. She is also a Ph.D. Research Scholar (Law), Mahindra University, Hyderabad, India. She holds professional membership of the Bar Council of India. Her research interests include the intersectionality of gender, climate, business, and law. Her scholarly…
