Biography

I have had a rather eclectic academic career, and have worked across several different areas of the humanities and social sciences in different countries around the globe. In light of the deteriorating climate crisis, my research has progressively shifted towards the environmental sciences, with a special focus on the study of the cryosphere.In my doctoral research, I will study “climate intervention” projects that have been suggested to help preserve elements of the cryosphere in the Arctic and the “Third Pole”. As global temperatures continue to rise, and effective emissions reductions fail to materialise, I foresee that such proposals to artificially interfere in the climate through technoscientific means will increasingly move onto the main stage of climate debates. Many of these schemes are however far from exemplary as postcolonial scientific projects, and the debates around them are highly polarised. During my doctoral studies I therefore hope to further the knowledge of such climate intervention projects, explore their influence on the public perception of climate change, and to facilitate debates on their relation to climate justice.

Previous Education

University Paris-Saclay & UVSQ Arctic Science 2022
Rijksuniversiteit Leiden (Leiden Univ) History 2017