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Our PhD researchers are working on a variety of topics - from carbon taxation and energy transitions, to global environmental justice, urban gentrification, the commons, or the green new deal and degrowth.
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PhD Researchers

Sofía Avila
PhD Researcher
Keywords: renewable energies, global south, political ecology, transitions

Nick Bourguignon
PhD Researcher
Keywords: feminist political ecology, rural sociology, water, science and technology studies

Juana Castro Santa
PhD Researcher
Keywords: experimental economics, environmental psychology, experimental psychology

Elyne Doornbos
PhD Researcher
keywords: political ecology, commoning, social movements, shrinking civic space

Joël Foramitti
PhD Researcher
Keywords: climate change, public policy, agent-based modelling, economics

Franziska Klein
PhD Researcher
Keywords: climate policy, household behaviour, time use, agent-based modeling

Théo Konc
PhD Researcher
Keywords: climate policy, endogenous preferences, social network, environmental economics

Alejandro Marcos-Valls
PhD Researcher
Keywords: science for governance, integrated analysis; socio-ecologic metabolism; island studies

Riccardo Mastini
PhD Researcher
Keywords: degrowth, ecological economics, post-growth, green new deal

Grettel Navas
PhD Researcher
Keywords: political ecology of health, environmental conflicts, social movements, environmental justice

Borja Nogué Algueró
PhD Researcher
Keywords: political ecology, marine social science, blue degrowth, Mediterranean sea

Carmen Pérez del Pulgar Frowein
PhD Researcher
Keywords: environmental justice, urban political ecology, gentrification, children geography, urban Sociology, urban sustainability

Brototi Roy
PhD Researcher
keywords: environmental justice, political ecology, coal, environmentalism of the poor

Galia Shokry
PhD Researcher
Keywords: urban inequalities, climate justice, environmental gentrification, green infrastructure

Aljosa Slamersak
PhD Researcher
Keywords: climate change, energy transitions, carbon removal technologies, degrowth

Bowen Gu
PhD Researcher
Keywords: ecological economics, environmental justice, coal, China, energy transition

Dalena Tran
PhD Researcher
Keywords: feminist political ecology, environmental justice, environmentalism of the poor, garbage/waste/recycling

Ilenia Iengo
PhD Researcher
Keywords: Feminist urban political ecology, environmental justice, social reproduction, commoning

Ana T. Amorim-Maia
PhD Researcher
Keywords: Urban environmental justice, feminist political ecology, climate change adaptation, intersectionality

Francesco Facchini
PhD Researcher
Keywords: Rural vulnerability and resilience, agroecology, food sovereignty, social movements and political ecology
