Researchers

Overview of social science researchers with knowledge on climate and sustainability topics.

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Kristoffer Langkjær Albris
Associate Professor, Department for Anthropology/SODAS
kristoffer.albris@anthro.ku.dk 
Mobile: +45 26 30 23 77
  • Climate adaption
  • Catastrophes
  • Risk management
Michele Betsill
Professor, Department of Political Science
m.betsill@ifs.ku.dk 
Phone: +45 35 33 08 26
  • Global environmental governance and policy
  • Climate politics
  • Non-state and sub-national actors
  • Transnational climate and biodiversity action
Michala Hvidt Breengaard
Postdoc, Department of Sociology
mbr@soc.ku.dk 
Phone: +45 35 32 43 80
  • Gender and climate movements
  • Climate and sustainable transportation
  • Climate  politics relating to gender and diversity
  • Climate and reproduction
Hilda Rømer Christensen
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Coordination for Gender Research
hrc@soc.ku.dk 
Phone: +45 35 32 39 43
  • Gender and climate movements
  • Climate og sustainable transportation
  • Climate politics relating to gender and diversity
Olaf Corry
Associalte Professor, Department of Political Science
oc@ifs.ku.dk 
Phone: +45 35 32 21 12
  • The politics of geoengineering
  • Climate politics
  • Protest movements, social movements and political commitment
  • Emerging technologies and social change
  • International environmental politics
  • Political choices and new technologies
Carl-Johan Dalgaard
Professor, Department of Economics
carl.johan.dalgaard@econ.ku.dk 
Phone: +45 35 32 44 07
  • Climate and economic growth
  • Aid effectiveness
Søren Damsbo-Svendsen
Postdoc, Department of Political Science
sdas@ifs.ku.dk  
Phone: +45 35 32 14 46
  • Attitude formation
  • Voter behaviour
  • Media coverage of climate and environment
  • Extreme weather
Nicole Doerr
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
nd@soc.ku.dk 
Phone: +45 35 33 50 57
  • Social movements
  • Democracy
  • Environmental justice

Jakob Dreyer
Postdoc, Department of Political Science

jakob.dreyer@ifs.ku.dk 
Phone: +45 35 33 69 43
Mobile: +45 42 41 77 47
  • International politics with focus on the climate dimension
  • Climate security and climate diplomacy
  • EU climate policy
Alice el-Wakil
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
alice.el-wakil@ifs.ku.dk 
Phone: 35 32 32 34
  • Democracy
  • Democratic theory
  • Democratic innovations
  • Referendums, initiatives, direct democracy
  • Citizens’ Assemblies and deliberative mini-publics
  • Political representation by elected officials and non elected organisations
Janek Værnet Eskildsen
Postdoc, Department of Economics
jbe@econ.ku.dk 
Phone: +45 35 32 62 09
  • Resource, environmental and climate economy
  • Energy economy and energy markets
  • Transportation economy
  • Integrated assessment models
Peter Kielberg Fisker
Assistant Professor, Department of Economcis
pkf@econ.ku.dk 
Phone: +45 61 30 04 06
  • Development economics
  • GIS
  • Catastrophes
  • Satelite data

Mogens Fosgerau
Professor, Department of Economics

mogens.fosgerau@econ.ku.dk 
Phone: +45 35 33 42 72
  • Climate and transportation
Quentin Gausset
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
quentin.gausset@anthro.ku.dk 
Phone: +45 35 32 34 73
  • Environmental anthropology
  • Natural resource management
  • CO2 foot print
  • Environmental behaviour
Christina Gravert 
Associate Professor, Department of Economics
cag@econ.ku.dk
Phone: +45 35 33 47 82
  • Climate behaviour
  • Behavioural economics and nudging
  • Sustainability economy
  • Field experiments/RCTs
Bente Halkier
Professor, Department of Sociology
beh@soc.ku.dk 
Phone: +45 35 33 50 44
  • Climate behaviour
  • Sociology of consumption
  • Diet, prevention and health monitoring
  • Sustainability in food consumption
Henrik Hansen
Professor and Head of Department of Economics
henrik.hansen@econ.ku.dk 
Phone: +45 35 32 44 05
Mobile: +45 26 53 93 50
  • Development Economics
  • Growth and poverty
Kirsten Hastrup
Professor emerita, Department of Anthropology
kirsten.hastrup@anthro.ku.dk
Phone: +45 35 32 34 60
  • Climate change and society
  • Nature and environment
  • The Arctic
Jens Hoff
Professor emeritus, Department of Political Science
jh@ifs.ku.dk 
Phone: 35 32 33 86
  • The citizens involvement in climate action
  • Municipal climate policy
  • IT-based solutions to energy saving
  • Green GDP
Uffe Jacobsen
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
uj@ifs.ku.dk 
Phone: +45 35 32 34 04
Mobile: +45 52 53 34 04
  • Developments in Greenland and the Arctic: Climate Change, Asian Interests, Security and Governance
  • Climate change and societal consequences in the Arctic
Ingrid Helene Brandt Jensen
PhD, Department of Political Science
ihbj@ifs.ku.dk 
Phone: +45 35 33 37 62
  • Climate politics
  • Climate change
  • Anthropocene
Peter Kjær Kruse-Andersen
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
peter.k.kruse-andersen@econ.ku.dk 
Phone: +45 35 33 47 92
  • Climate economy
  • Circular economy
  • EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS)
  • Economic growth and climate change
  • Leakage of greenhouse gases
Stine Krøijer
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
stine.kroijer@anthro.ku.dk 
Phone: +45 35 32 15 81
  • Extractive industries
  • Conflicts about forresting
  • Social conflicts on extraction of fossil energy
  • New social movements (the European environmental justice movement)
  • Indigenous peoples' development paradigms and ideas about the rights of nature
Simon Westergaard Lex
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
simon.lex@anthro.ku.dk 
Phone: +45 35 32 34 58
Mobile: +45 31 43 28 39
  • Citizen engagement and democratic inclusion
  • Citizen resistance and green conflicts
  • Green communities and sustainable urban development
  • Renewable energy and PtX systems
Guido Makransky
Professor, Department of Psychology
gm@psy.ku.dk 
Phone: +45 35 32 62 76
  • Behavioral climate change interventions
  • Environmental education
  • Immersive virtual reality as a mean to experience climate futures
Jens Ladefoged Mortensen
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
jlm@ifs.ku.dk 
Phone: +45 35 32 34 48
  • Green export- and trading politics
  • Green transition and the global economy, including climate and trade agreements
  • International negotiations and institutions (UN, WTO, G7, etc.)
  • Globalisation and the deglobalisation debate
Thomas Morton
Professor, Department of Psychology
thomas.morton@psy.ku.dk 
Phone: +45 35 32 63 56
  • Identities, environment perception and environmental action
  • Social norms and behavior change
  • Climate change communication, public understanding of science, opinion polarisation
Cecilie Rubow
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
cecilie.rubow@anthro.ku.dk 
Phone: +45 35 32 34 77
  • Nature ethics
  • Climate communication
  • Food habits
  • Activism
  • Climate conflicts in Oceania
Peter Birch Sørensen
Professor, Department of Economics
peter.birch.sorensen@econ.ku.dk 
Phone: +45 35 32 30 15
Mobile: +45 28 14 62 39
  • Climate economy
  • Optimal unilateral climate policy in an open economy faced with the risk of climate leakage
  • Green GDP
Finn Tarp
Professor, Department of Economics
finn.tarp@econ.ku.dk 
Phone: +45 35 32 30 41
Mobile: +45 93 50 91 61
  • Development economics
  • Economic politics
  • Poverty and income distribution
  • Climate change and energy transition
Lars Tønder
Professor with special responsibilities, Department of Political Science
lt@ifs.ku.dk 
Phone: +45 35 32 04 89
  • Climate, democracy and leadership
  • Citizen engagement
  • Anthropocene
  • Green education
  • Renewable energy
Clara Vandeweerdt
Tenure track assistant professor
clara.vandeweerdt@ifs.ku.dk 
Phone: +45 35 33 20 76
  • Public opinions
  • Media
  • Climate movements
  • Climate policy formation
Susan Whyte
Professor, Department of Anthropology
susan.whyte@anthro.ku.dk 
Phone: +45 35 32 34 77
  • Climate conflicts and refugees
Ole Wæver
Professor, Department of Political Science
ow@ifs.ku.dk 
Phone: +45 35 32 34 31
Mobile: +45 26 17 40 77
  • Global power structures, conflict analysis and conflict
  • Climate change as security issue
Ingo Zettler
Professor, Department of Psychology and SODAS
ingo.zettler@sodas.ku.dk 
Phone: +45 35 32 48 50
  • Personality and (pro)environmental behavior
  • Behavior change interventions