Knowledge Hub on Climate

Dr Hillary Briffa is a Lecturer in National Security Studies at King’s College London, where she read for her Ph.D in War Studies (specialising in small state security). She is also a founding member of the Centre for Grand Strategy, where she leads the Climate Change and International Order portfolio.

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Department of War Studies, School of Security Studies
King's College London

Stefano Galatolo is Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics at University of Pisa. He is vice director for the Inderpartmental Center for the study of Complex systems of the University of Pisa, Section Editor for Chaos Solitons and Fractals (Elsevier) and Journal of Fixed Point Theory and Applications (Springer Birkhauser). His research interests range from the study of the statistical prop-erties of dynamical systems to the applications to the understanding of the behavior of complex sys-tems, including the applications  to climate science, computational methods and validated numerics.

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Dipartimento di Matematica
University of Pisa

Xiaofeng Guo is a full professor at the Faculty of Sciences, Université Paris Cité. His research is within  Paris Interdisciplinary Energy Research Institute (PIERI - LIED UMR 8236), which also belongs to CNRS. The goal of his research is to facilitate energy transition with a systematic approach at multiple scales. At the city scale, he worked on waste energy recovery for heating and cooling; At the building scale, he is interested in energy audit methods hybridizing bigdata with physics. He holds an Energy Engineer background and as a Circle U. Chair in Climate, he is eager to make into action energy transition knowledges.

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Faculté des Sciences
Université Paris Cité

My research focus is on cities, with a special interest in urban sustainability transformations, urban vulnerability and urban adaptation. Global environmental change and digital change as well as the impacts on, and the challenges and opportunities for cities, are central to my work. I work both conceptually and empirically to better link theory and practice for sustainable urban transformation. My aim is to develop integrative approaches through inter- and transdisciplinary cooperation. This includes for example the interaction of the UN Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs) or the socio-ecological-technical interactions in cities. I studied environmental sciences and received my PhD from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and did my habilitation at the University of Leipzig, both in geography. My regional geographic focus is in Latin America.

At University of Vienna I am among others acting as Climate Chair for Circle U. and member of the Environment and Climate Research Hub (univie.ac.at).

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Department of Geography and Regional Research
University of Vienna

Jelena received a bachelors (2004), a magistar (2008), and a doctoral degree (2013), in Geography at the University of Belgrade. Her dissertation elucidated the spatial pattern of climate variability in Serbia. Since her Fulbright fellowship at UC Berkeley, her focus of research is precipitation seasonality change in the subtropics.

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Faculty of Geography
University of Belgrade

He chairs a center for climate services at AU focusing on climate and transitional risks. His research interests range from sustainability, environmental risk analysis and climate risk assessment to international environmental policies. He has been instrumental to the establishment of Aarhus University CO2e inventorying methods across all universities in Denmark. 2015 he chaired the 2. European Climate Change Adaptation Conference on behalf of the EU Commission. He has since 2016 served as national expert to the Horizon 2020 (SC5) and Horizon Europe (Cluster 6) Programme Committee for Denmark. 2020-2023 he was European Climate Pact Ambassador for Aarhus University.

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TECH, Aarhus University

Beate Sjåfjell is Professor of Law at the University of Oslo and a Visiting Professor at College of Europe. Professor Sjåfjell is founder and head of the Oslo Faculty’s Research Group Companies, Markets and Sustainability. She publishes extensively and increasingly interdisciplinarily on corporate law, corporate governance and sustainability.

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Department of Private Law
Faculty of Law, University of Oslo

Marianne holds a PhD in Energy Systems Modelling from Utrecht University and has research experience from UCL Energy Institute and the European Commission JRC. As Associate Professor, she leads a group designing net-zero energy systems that are climate-resilient and socially just and accepted.

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Department of Technology Systems
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
University of Oslo

Dr. Marnik Vanclooster is professor at UCLouvain. He made his Ph.D. in soil physics and develops research projects in the area of water resources engineering, agricultural water management and vadose zone hydrology. He has 30 years of experience in executing and leading research projects at the national level, at the EU level and elsewhere (in particular the Maghreb and central Africa). He is head of the Earth and Life Institute at UCLouvain. He was elected chair of the Vadose Zone Division at EGU (2011-2013) and of the Belgian commission for the UNESCO – IHP (2013-2016). He is past member of the editorial board of the ‘Journal of Hydrology’ and the ‘Vadose Zone Journal’, and currently serves the editorial board of ‘Agricultural Water Management’ and ‘Hydrology and Earth Sciences Systems Journal (HESS)’.

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Faculty of Bioscience Engineering
Université catholique de Louvain

Anne Enderwitz is Professor of English Literature at HU Berlin. Her research interests range from early modern theatre to contemporary fiction and from literature and economics to climate narratives. As academic chair for Circle U. she explores the role of narrative in general and speculative fiction in particular in negotiating the climate crisis.

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Faculty of Language, Literature and Humanities
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

My research focuses on questions of democracy and justice in relation to climate change and fossil fuel extraction. In particular, I am interested in the relationship between scientific expertise and political processes, the boundaries between economic and political rationalities, and how the future is rendered knowable and governable. I am currently interested in the technologies that seek to envision the futures of oil, and how these technologies shape the governing of oil in the present.

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Professor Marius Mjaaland’s academic interests encompass philosophy and theology, with a particular emphasis on phenomenology and interdisciplinary research on the relationship between religion and society. His work within the life sciences focuses especially on ethical questions related to organ donation and the concept of the gift of life. In addition, he is engaged in ecology and eco-philosophy, exploring philosophical responses to environmental concerns. The study of Søren Kierkegaard’s philosophy has been a longstanding and central interest throughout his academic career.

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My research is focused on development of novel sustainable energy materials and green technologies for renewable energy systems, with a particular focus on energy storage solutions. My work is highly cross-disciplinary, linking the material- and element-focused research with the system-oriented approach. As an individual, who is passionate about expanding borders, I love to apply my creativity and analytical skills to explore new possibilities, areas and connections.

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