See below for a list of all members of the CEENRG Global Community (CEENRG alumni, past members and visitors)
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Dr Martin Beuse
Dr Martin Beuse
Former visiting student (2019)
Chief Product & Markets Officer, E3/DC | HagerEnergy GmbH
Biography
From September through November 2019, Martin Beuse was a Visiting Researcher at C-EENRG working with Prof. Laura Diaz Anadon. At the time, he was a PhD candidate with the Energy Politics Group at ETH Zurich (Switzerland), working on battery technologies and distributed energy. His research focused on the intersection of engineering and public policy. The research collaboration that was started then has been ongoing since. As a C-EENRG Researcher, Martin was developing cost models to quantify technology spillovers in lithium-ion batteries. The objective of this work was to understand the role of spillovers in technological progress and to derive implications for public policy to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies.
Martin has extensive international experience in the energy industry. After completing his PhD at ETH Zurich, he joined E3/DC as Head of Strategy & Business Development in 2021. Prior to that, as Senior Consultant for e.on, he supported the ramp-up and internationalization of the PV and battery business. As an independent advisor he supported startups, incumbents, and investors with insights on battery technology, markets and business models in increasingly decentralized, decarbonized, and digital energy systems.
Martin holds a PhD in Battery Engineering & Public Policy from ETH Zurich, and Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from TU Braunschweig (Germany), during which he gained additional work experience with Siemens, RWE Power, RWE Consulting (Germany, Czech Republic), and NORD/LB (NYC, US).
Research
Batteries
Energy
Innovation
Person Keywords
Energy
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Simone Borghesi
Simone Borghesi
Former visiting scholar
Biography
Assistant Professor at the University of Siena where he teaches Environmental Economics. He received a M.Sc. in Economics at University College London (1996) and a Ph.D. in Economics at the European University Institute (2001). He worked at the International Monetary Fund, Washington (1998), at the Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei, Milan (1999) and as Assistant Professor at the University of Pescara (2004-2008). He has published two books (“La sostenibilità dello sviluppo globale”, Carocci 2005, and “Global Sustainability” Palgrave-Macmillan, 2008, with Alessandro Vercelli) and articles in edited books and peer-reviewed international journals including Ecological Economics, Ecological Modelling, Ecological Indicators, Economic Modelling, Journal of Economic Surveys, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Journal of Socio-Economics, Research Policy. In 2012 he was invited at the United Nations at the High-Level Meeting on “Happiness and Wellbeing: Defining A New Economic Paradigm” and at the IV World EcoSummit (Columbus, Ohio). He is currently Codirector of the research group R4S (Regulation for Sustainability), Scientific Coordinator of the research unit of the University of Siena for the PRIN project on Climate change in the Mediterranean area and member of the Board of Directors of the University of Siena for the United Nations MED Solutions, the regional hub for the Mediterranean of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) directed by Jeffrey Sachs. He is also member of several European projects (Transworld, Cecilia, Fessud). In February 2015 he has been elected President of the Italian Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (IAERE). His main research areas are globalisation and sustainable development, economic growth and well-being, European environmental policies, emission trading, dynamic environmental models, game theoretical models.
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Hongmei Deng
Hongmei Deng
Former visiting student (2016-2017)
Biography
Hongmei Deng was a PhD candidate in the Center for Energy & Environmental Policy Research at Beijing Institute of Technology. She was a visiting PhD student in C-EENRG, Land Economy.
Her research interests focus on energy and environmental policy, especially on the policies to analyze the co-benefits of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. She has two publications on how to co-control greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants.
Hongmei’s research in University of Cambridge was supervised by Prof. Laura Diaz Anadon from October 2016 to October 2017. Her fellowship was made possible with support from the China Scholarship Council and Newton Fund. During this period, Hongmei’s project involved assessing the co-benefits of mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and developed a typology on the types of co-benefits, mitigation sectors, geographic level, and methodologies in the literature. She also started to work on the regional variations in the climate, environmental and health benefits of wind and solar generation in China.
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Chukwuebuka Edum
Chukwuebuka Edum
Former visiting student (2018-2019)
Biography
I am passionate researcher and professional in environmental governance, sustainability and law.
My PhD studies, which is an independent research project, takes an interdisciplinary approach in investigating the role of law in the transboundary water development. Initially funded by Fondation Ernest et Lucie Schmidheiny, in 2018 the Project was awarded the prestigious SNF Doc.Mobility. The grant funds my research stay and research activities at University of Cambridge’s Centre for Environmental, Energy and Natural Resources Governance (C-EERNG). Parallel with my PhD Studies, I have garnered extensive professional experience working with international organisations on issues of general human right to water, trade in water (and energy resources) and sustainable development.
In 2015, I successfully completed LL.M studies at the Graduate Institute of International and development Studies (IHEID) Geneva, within the special stream on Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Governance (EERNG). My LL.M thesis analyses the extraterritorial liability of multinational corporations, using the energy case of Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum. As part of my LLM Studies, I also worked with a team on a research project on how international courts deal with the burden of proof on environmental matters. The outcome of the research project has been published at the Journal of International Dispute Settlement (JIDS).
I have got a bachelor of laws degree from University of Ibadan and wrote my thesis on the legal framework for the regulation of pollution in the Nigeria Petroleum Sector. I represented the university in the 2011 Negotiation Competition on Access to food. The research output for the competition, which is published in the Copenhagen Law Journal, addresses issues of food production and trade in developing countries. I am also a qualified lawyer in Nigeria and have had a stint in legal practice in topmost law firms in Nigeria. As one of the highlights of my legal practice, I supported the legal team representing Malabu Oil and Gas Company in its dispute concerning Oil Block 245 between the Nigeria government and Shell/AGIP Companies.
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Professor Teresa Fajardo
Professor Teresa Fajardo
Former visiting scholar
Biography
Dr. Teresa Fajardo del Castillo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Public International Law and International Relations in Granada University where she teaches Public International Law at the Faculty of Law and International and European Environmental Law at the Science Faculty.
She read law at Granada and Poitiers Universities and the Licence Spéciale en Droit Européen at the Institut d’Etudes Européennes at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. She has spent stages at the Legal Service of the European Commission and has been a visiting researcher/scholar at the universities of Florence, Brussels, Geneva and King’s College, London. She obtained her Ph.D. with a thesis on the External Policy of the European Union in the field of environment. Her research fields are International and European Environmental Law, International Law of the Sea and the EU Migration Policy. She is engaged in several inter-university and European Union projects relating to International and European environmental law.
She is currently researching in wildlife crime and illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and has published several contributions in these fields, while she participated in the interdisciplinary research project EFFACE, “European Union Action to Fight Environmental Crime”, funded under the 7th Research Framework Programme of the EU. As part of the EFFACE research project, Dr. Fajardo compiled a study on environmental crime and efforts to combat it in Spain and analysed international and EU legal instruments related to organised crime and environmental crime. Her recent publications are “Wildlife crime: The European Union's Approach in the Fight against Wildlife Trafficking: Challenges Ahead”, Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy 01/2016 and reports for the European Parliament on Wildlife Crime in Europe and in Spain.
Recent publications:
Report for the European Parliament, Wildlife Crime in Europe;
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Eirik Finserås
Eirik Finserås
Former visiting student (2022)
PhD Candidate, University of Bergen
Biography
Eirik Finseraas was a visiting PhD candidate at the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance and the Department of Land Economy in October-December 2022. He conducts legal research relating to comparative licensing of offshore wind in the North Sea Basin in Norway, Denmark and England. His PhD thesis aims to assess how legal frameworks regulate licensing procedures for offshore wind and particularly how they respond to technological and socioeconomic changes.
Eirik holds an LLM in Energy Law from University College London and is doing his PhD at the University of Bergen in Norway. During his visit to Cambridge, he was supervised by Dr Emily Webster.
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Agustín García Ureta
Agustín García Ureta
Former visiting scholar
Biography
Agustín García Ureta is Professor of Administrative Law and Environmental Law at the University of the Basque Country. He holds a Degree in Law from the University of Deusto (1988), an LL.M. in European Legal Studies (1989) and a Ph.D. in Law from Exeter University (1992). He has lectured extensively in Spain and abroad and is current survey correspondent of Environmental Liability, published by Lawtext (Oxford) as well as a frequent collaborator of the Yearbook of European Environmental Law (Oxford) and the Environmental Law Yearbook Ingurumena eta Zuzenbidea (IEZ). He is the author of 8 monographic treatises, co-author of 6 books and has published over 25 articles and 60 commentaries on sentences in the areas of general administrative and environmental law. His most important works include Derecho Europeo de la Biodiversidad (Madrid: Iustel and Gómez-Acebo & Pombo, 2010), La potestad inspectora en el derecho comunitario. Fundamentos, sectores de actuación y límites (Madrid: Iustel, 2008), El domicilio y su régimen jurídico, (Bilbao: Lete, 2007), La potestad inspectora de las Administraciones Públicas, Madrid: Marcial Pons, 2006, La Comisión Arbitral del País Vasco (Oñati: IVAP, 2003), Procedimiento administrativo y derecho comunitario: silencio administrativo, nulidad y anulabilidad de los actos en la Ley 30/1992 (Oñati: IVAP, 2002), Espacios naturales protegidos (Oñati: IVAP, 1999), Protección de especies de flora y fauna en derecho comunitario europeo: Directivas 79/409 y 92/43, (Oñati: IVAP, 1997), Marco jurídico del procedimiento de evaluación de impacto ambiental: el contexto comunitario y estatal (Oñati: IVAP, 1994).
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Paola Velasco Herrejon
Paola Velasco Herrejon
Former centre researcher
Biography
Paola Velasco Herrejon was a Ph.D student at the Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge. Her doctoral thesis investigated social dynamics in the wind energy sector.
Paola has a wide of experience in developing corporate and government strategies to promote social development while advancing economic and social empowerment among indigenous people in the Global South. She started her career as a fundraising officer at Fair Trade Mexico to then support indigenous women’s led businesses and at the Mexico Women’s ministry. Paola then worked as Corporate Social Responsibility Coordinator at Grupo Mexico, one of the leading copper producers in the world, to launch a CRS strategy for their wind energy development. In her most recent role, she worked for the United Nations Development Programme evaluating public programmes related to the Commission for the Development of Indigenous People. She was a tutor of sustainability and economics subjects in summer academic programs held at the University of Cambridge.
Paola earned her Gender and Development MA as a CONACYT scholar at the Institute of Development Studies based at the University of Sussex.
Research Interests
Renewable energy sector
Business and Social Development
Indigenous Communities
Human Development and Capabilities
Sustainable Development
Participatory Action Research
Recent publications
Velasco Herrejon, P. (forthcoming 2018) Insights into the processes of women’s empowerment through participation in artisan cooperatives in Chiapas, Mexico. Cambridge Journal of Development Issues
Yaganeh, M., Velasco Herrejón, P., Wantson, N., Spratt, S. y Cicera, X. (2013) What is Business and Development? An Annotated Bibliography. IDS Evidence Report 4, Brighton: IDS.
Arteaga Romero, J. y Velasco Herrejón, P (2012). Violencia hacia las mujeres [Conferencia]. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Facultad de Economía, México DF, 9 de marzo.
Velasco-Herrejon, P. (2011) ONGs: Educación para la Paz en Acción. Prometeo (Revista Mexicana de Desarrollo Humano). Noviembre
Velasco-Herrejon, P. (2010) Comercio Justo y Gastronomía; Una introducción a los productos de Comercio Justo México [Conferencia]. Colegio Superior de Gastronomía, México, DF. 13 Febrero.
Ibanez-Velasco, G. y Velasco-Herrejon, P. (2005) Electrolysis Applied to Environmental Clean-up. Praxis der Naturwissenschaften Chemie inder Shule.
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Dr Martina Kunz
Dr Martina Kunz
PhD Alumna (2024)
Former centre researcher
Biography
Martina Kunz was a PhD researcher working on regulatory techniques of international environmental law under the supervision of Prof. Jorge E. Viñuales. For her PhD, she used tools from natural language processing, data science and artificial intelligence to map and evaluate the regulatory techniques and effects of international environmental treaty systems. She supervised undergraduate students in European environmental and sustainable development law and provided small group teaching for graduate students in international law at the Department of Land Economy and the Faculty of Law, as well as occasionally leading workshops on legal methodology and mindmapping.
Prior to her PhD at Cambridge, Martina studied international law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (LLM), Chinese law and language at Tsinghua University (China Scholarship Council Visiting Scholar), Russian law and language at Saint Petersburg State University, as well as Law, Sinology, Slavonic studies and Philosophy at the University of Geneva (LLB and BA). She is fluent in German, English, Chinese, French, and Spanish, and has worked on a number of international and comparative law research projects for universities, NGOs and international organizations, mainly in the fields of environmental law, economic law, and public law at large. Her publications include ‘Principle 11: Environmental Legislation’ in J.E. Viñuales (ed.) The Rio Declaration on Environment and Development: A Commentary (Oxford University Press, 2015), and (with Jorge E. Viñuales) ‘Environmental Approaches to Nuclear Weapons’ in G. Nystuen, S. Casey-Maslen, A. Bersagel (eds) Nuclear Weapons under International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2014).
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Xiyan Mao
Xiyan Mao
Former visiting student
Biography
Ph.D. candidate, Human Geography, Peking University, 2010-
Visiting student, Geography, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, 2015
B.A. Economics, Peking University, 2007-2010
B.S. Geography, Peking University, 2006-2010
Xiyan Mao was a PhD candidate in the College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University. He also served as a research assistant in the Peking University-Lincoln Institute Center for Urban Development and Land Policy. With a comprehensive background in physical geography, economic geography, resource management and economics, his published research articles span a wide range of aspects on human-environment interactions, such as expansion of construction and carbon emissions, tourism development and deforestation, regional development and ecological security, and the changing spatial distribution of resource-based industries. These researches reach across multiple spatial scales (from local to national) and diverse typical areas (from less developed and eco-fragile region to developed and eco-sensitive region). Approaches for these studies include complex system models, statistical analysis, household surveys and spatial analysis of geo-spatial data.
His research focused on the role of environmental regulation on reshaping the geography of dirty trade. Using the product-level data of Chinese import and export, he seeked to explore in depth the changing spatial pattern of dirty trade from a perspective of global-local interactions. Environmental regulations across different scales were incorporated to answer how they operate at the local, national and international level simultaneously and then modify the global and local pattern of dirty trade.
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Dr Manfredi Marciante
Dr Manfredi Marciante
Former visiting scholar (2022)
Biography
Manfredi Marciante was a visiting scholar at the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance and the Department of Land Economy in October - December 2022. He conducted research relating to the modernisation of the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) in the context of climate change policy, sustainable development, and international investment disputes.
Manfredi holds a Ph.D. in International Law from LUISS 'Guido Carli' University and he is a qualified lawyer practicing in Rome, Italy. During his visit in Cambridge, he was supervised by Prof. Jorge E. Viñuales.
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Anna Carolina Martins
Anna Carolina Martins
Former visiting student (2022)
Biography
Anna Carolina Martins is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Campinas in Brazil. She was a visiting researcher at CEENRG in the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, in November-December 2022. She is also a supervising lecturer in the specialisation course in Data Analysis at the University of São Paulo campus ESALQ.
The aim of her research is to understand what the possible barriers are to financing the development of new renewable electricity generation technologies to replace existing ones, especially how the economic agents involved in this process make their investment and financing decisions. To this end, Anna applies an agent-based model adapted to the evolution and complexity theory.
Anna is part of the Economics of Energy Innovation Systems Transition (EEIST) project team. She holds a Master’s degree in Applied Economics from the Federal University of Ouro Preto and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Montes Claros. She was a part of the winning team that represented Brazil in the Global Management Challenge in 2020 and 2021.
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Anastasia Mishustina
Anastasia Mishustina
Former centre researcher
Biography
Anastasia Mishustina is a PhD researcher at the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) and former C-EENRG researcher, University of Cambridge. Anastasia's research focuses on public-private partnerships in climate change mitigation, with a particular emphasis on the energy sector. Her interests and work experience cover national and international climate change and energy policies, sustainability, greenhouse gas assessments and reductions, international collaboration in climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation in developing countries, state-of-the-art technologies in the oil and gas and energy sectors.
Throughout her career, Anastasia has acted as a consultant for a number of government agencies and companies, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, U.K. Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, New York City Department of Environmental Protection, MichCon, Gazprom, and others. She has worked on a variety of energy and climate-related projects ranging from oil and gas economics to innovation management, and climate change mitigation and adaptation. In her most recent role, she led the international development and management of a number of international climate change programmes, such as the Global Methane Initiative and Natural Gas STAR International.
Anastasia is a Fulbright alumnus and holds an MBA, as well as an MA degree in Economics from the University of Kansas (USA).
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Adrian Odenweller
Adrian Odenweller
Former visiting student (2018-2019)
Biography
Adrian was a visiting graduate student with a broad background in the natural and social sciences and a strong interest in integrated assessment modelling of human-environment interactions for climate policy. Since 2017, he pursued an M.Sc. in Integrated Climate System Sciences at the Cluster of Excellence "Climate, Climatic Change and Society" (CliCCS, formerly CliSAP) at the University of Hamburg. He holds a B.Sc. in Physics (2012-2017) as well as a B.Sc. in Economics (2012-2016), both from the University of Cologne and has also studied at Corvinus University Budapest (2014) and University College London (2011-2012).
Adrian first got into contact with environmental modelling during his Physics Bachelor thesis on complex climate networks with non-linear time series analysis at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK, 2016-2017). After a subsequent traineeship at the Macroeconomic Statistics Division of the European Central Bank (ECB, 2017) in Frankfurt, he gained further experience in earth system modelling as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M, 2018) in Hamburg.
At C-EENRG his research focused on energy modelling of bottom-up technology transitions in FTT:Power as part of the integrated assessment model E3ME-FTT-GENIE. Specifically, he worked on improving the stylised representation of integration challenges and technical grid stability constraints for high shares of intermittent renewable energies. He is widely interested in quantitative energy-economy-environment modelling, complex systems, decision making under uncertainty, technological change and sustainability transition scenarios.
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Professor Carina Costa de Oliveira
Professor Carina Costa de Oliveira
Former visiting scholar
Biography
Professor of International and Environmental Law, Law Faculty, University of Brasília, Brazil (http://www.fd.unb.br/pt/professores-de-direito-internacional/item/carina...). Former visiting scholar at the C-EENRG, University of Cambridge. PhD (Panthéon-Assas, France). Coordinator of the Research group on Law, Natural Resources and Sustainability (Gern-UnB) - http://www.gern.ndsr.org/. Organizer of the book: Marine Environment and Law: Exploration and exploitation on the coastal zone, on the continental shelf and on the deep-seabed (Curitiba, Juruá, 2015).; Author of La réparation des dommages environnementaux en droit international: contribution à l'étude de la complémentarité entre le droit international public et le droit international privé (Saarbrücken: Éditions Universitaires Européennes, 2012). Research areas: Public and Private International Law, Environmental law, Marine Resources Preservation and Conservation. Member of the Research Projects on “The Function of law in the sustainable management of the minerals resources in the sea” and “The Brazilian strategy on sustainable management of living and non-living marine resources”.
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Victoria Plutshack
Victoria Plutshack
PhD Alumna (2020)
Biography
Victoria Plutshack was a PhD researcher at C-EENRG under the supervision of Professor Jorge Viñuales in 2015-2020. Her research uses off grid solar enterprises in India as a lens through which to explore the symbiotic relationship between government and private, public and non-profit organizations. In creating a multi-layered approach, her work rests between the literature on modes of governance, public administration, business studies, corporate political action and political economy.
Victoria has an MPhil in Technology Policy from the University of Cambridge, where she focused on energy policy. Before starting her PhD research, she worked at UK energy regulator Ofgem, where she was an analyst in the Markets division.
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Lucy Lu Reimers
Lucy Lu Reimers
Former visiting student (2019-2020)
Biography
Lucy Lu was a PhD candidate in international law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva, and was a visitor at the Centre for Energy, Environment and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG) at the University of Cambridge in 2019-2020. Her doctoral research, supervised by Professor Jorge E. Viñuales, addressed unsustainable consumption as a driver of climate change and biodiversity loss from an international law perspective. She was also a researcher on the Interface Law project at the IHEID Global Governance Centre, studying legal entanglement in global economic governance with a focus on international trade law and corporate social responsibility. Her expertise lies in international environmental law, international economic law, corporate social responsibility, and global supply chains governance.
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Dr Jürgen Sauer
Dr Jürgen Sauer
PhD Alumnus (2023)
Former centre researcher
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Dr Ida Sognnaes
Dr Ida Sognnaes
PhD Alumna (2019)
Former centre researcher
Senior Researcher, CICERO Center for International Climate Research
Biography
Ida Sognnaes was a PhD researcher at C-EENRG working on the interactions between energy, environment, and economic systems, who graduated in 2019. Her thesis examines the implications of using different theoretical frameworks in models that guide the low-carbon transition.
Ida has a broad background in the natural and social sciences revolving around environmental issues. She has a masters degree (MA) in Energy and Resources from UC Berkeley and a masters degree (5 year MSc) in Applied Physics and Mathematics from The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). In addition to this, she has a bachelors degree (BSc) in Political Science from NTNU.
Ida has in the past worked on climate change modeling (The Norwegian Meteorological Institute), adaptation to climate change in the arctic (DNV-GL, Norway), ecosystems-climate change interactions (Rocky Mountains Biological Laboratory), transport optimisation (SINTEF, Norway), and socio-ecosystem dynamics of natural-human networks (UC Berkeley).
Research interests
Low-Carbon Transition; Ecological Economics; Integrated Assessment Models; Energy-Economy-Environment Models; Energy and Economic Growth; Innovation; Environmental Policy; History of Economic Thought; Philosophy of Science.
Teaching
Ida has previously supervised 3E11 Environmental Sustainability and Business (4th year Engineering) and RM01 Quantitative Research Methods (MPhil in Land Economy). While at UC Berkeley, Ida taught ER 102 Quantitative Aspects of Global Environmental Problems (upper division). Prior to this she has also taught Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods (1st year), Computer Fundamentals (1st year), Linear Algebra (1st year), and Calculus I (1st year).
Other Projects
Ida is a co-founder and convenor of the CRASSH and Institute for New Economic Thinking Young Scholars Initiative funded project The Politics of Economics. Prior to this Ida ran Paper 0.
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Pau de Vilchez Moragues
Pau de Vilchez Moragues
Former visiting student (2016)
Biography
Pau de Vilchez Moragues is a Visiting Lecturer, as well as a PhD Candidate, at the Department of International Public Law of the University of the Balearic Islands, in Spain.
After completing his Master’s degree in Law at the University of Salamanca, spending also one year at the Faculty of Law of the University of Bologna (Italy), Pau completed a Master’s degree in International Relations and Development at Science-Po Paris (France). Before joining back the academic world in 2010, he has had a professional parcours dealing mostly with Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, Refugees and Development projects in several countries in Europe, Western Africa and the Middle East. Thus, he has worked for the UNHCR in Cairo (Egypt), for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague (The Netherlands), and with several NGOs in Ivory Coast and Niger. From 2008 until 2011, he was a Development officer for the Agency of International Cooperation of the Government of the Balearic Islands, in charge of the Mediterranean basin, hence dealing with projects in Morocco, Algeria, the Saharawi Camps, and Palestine. In 2010, Pau joined the University of the Balearic Islands as a lecturer of International Public Law. In 2013 he started his PhD on International Environmental Law, and has been combining both activities since then.
His current research focuses on climate change domestic litigation as well as international environmental principles and obligations, taking also a comparative law perspective.
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Laura Villalobos-Fiatt
Laura Villalobos-Fiatt
Former visiting student
Biography
Laura was enrolled in the PhD program at the Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg. Her areas of interest included development, public policy, environmental and labor economics. Laura also collaborated with the Environment for Development Network (EfD initiative) and she was in the Department of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge as a visiting scholar.
Laura investigated the effects of weather variation on human capital. Do bad weather conditions increase school absenteeism? To what extend absenteeism impacts academic performance? Those were the questions Laura addressed as part of her dissertation. She had also worked on the environmental and social impacts of forest conservation policies. For example, she had looked at the effects of protected areas, such as national parks, on local communities' wages. She had also worked with the evaluation of the effects of the Payments for Environmental Services in Costa Rica and Forest Certification Labels in Sweden. Other topics that called her attention included the behavioral aspects of environmental risk communication, spatial and behavioral modelling of vector transmitted diseases, and energy policies. She graduated from the Department of Economics at the University of Costa Rica, and holds a Master degree on Environmental Economics from the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center, Turrialba, Costa Rica.
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Michael Weinold
Michael Weinold
Former visiting student (2019-2020)
Biography
Michael was a visiting student at C-EENRG in 2019-2020, conducting research as part of his Master's thesis supervised by Prof. Laura Diaz Anadon at the University of Cambridge and Prof. Didier Sornette at ETH Zürich.
As a visiting researcher, he was investigating technology spillovers in solid-state lighting, with the aim to derive policy recommendations to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies.
As part of his research at C-EENRG, Michael was analysing the performance implications of technological breakthroughs in the device architecture and manufacturing process of GaN based light-emitting diodes. To further capture the economic impact of these breakthroughs, he built a process-step resolution manufacturing cost model for device architectures spanning almost three decades.
Michael holds an undergraduate degree in Engineering Physics from Vienna University of Technology and has gathered research experience in solid-state physics at CERN in Geneva as well the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He is currently a PhD student at Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland, working on life cycle assessment modelling for carbon emissions.
Michael’s research at C-EENRG was supported through a grant of the Swiss Study Foundation: https://www.studyfoundation.ch/
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Dr Qinyi Xu
Dr Qinyi Xu
PhD Alumna (2022)
Former centre researcher
Biography
Qinyi Xu was a PhD researcher in the Department of Land Economy and Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge. She was also the president of the Cambridge Association for Political Economy of China (CAPEC) at the University of Cambridge.
Her research spans global environmental governance, environmental policy and economics to comparative/international political economy. Her PhD research was on “role formation”, “role differentiation” and “role fragmentation” in international environmental policy-making. Its main focus was to establish the role model to measure and predict the changing roles between state actors in climate change negotiation and within each actors’ policy-making processes. It explained the factors that cause the transition of roles and how such dynamic affect and interact with the issue of compliance in climate agreements.
Qinyi was the recipient of the Cambridge Trust scholarship for her PhD studies. She holds an MPhil in Environmental policy from the University of Cambridge. Prior to that, she obtained her B.A. in Politics and Public Administration (with B.A. Management-Leo KoGuan Scholar; Xinhe Scholar) at the School of Government, Peking University. During her undergraduate study in China, she also spent half a year as the scholar exchange student at the University of Sydney, where she focused on international security and UN studies. She has previously worked at UNDP and WHO Beijing offices.
Research
Global Governance and Sustainable Development, Environmental Politics and Economics, Environmental and Energy Policy, Comparative/International Political Economy, Maritime Affairs, International Organisation, UN Studies.
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Professor Mitsuyasu Yabe
Professor Mitsuyasu Yabe
Former visiting scholar
Biography
Mitsuyasu Yabe is a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at Kyushu University in Japan. He has over 30 years’ experience in the fields of environmental economics, agricultural economics and health economics. He is an expert on environmental valuation and has worked on biodiversity and landscape valuation and the use of economic analysis in the design of agro-environmental policy. Additionally, he has been involved in a variety of research activities on the effective use of biomass, bio-energy policy, organic waste management and food safety. He has published numerous articles on economic valuation and agro-environmental policy design and works as a supervising PhD and on other research projects. He has a PhD from the Department of Agricultural Economics, Kyoto University, Japan.
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Dr Karla Zambrano
Dr Karla Zambrano
Former visiting scholar
Biography
Karla Zambrano holds a PhD in Law and a LL.M. in Advocacy from the University of Valencia, Spain. Her doctoral thesis, entitled "The challenge of climate change in International and European Law", received the qualification of Outstanding CUM LAUDE and international mention.
She held a pre-doctoral scholarship from the Ministry of Science and Universities of Spain and is currently carrying out her post-doctoral research, also with funding from the Ministry, in the Adolfo Miaja de la Muela International Law Department at the University of Valencia, where she teaches in the subjects of Public International Law and International Environmental Law.
Karla Zambrano is a member of the University of Valencia's research group "Sustainable development, global and regional governance, contemporary international and European order - DSGMROIEC." Previously she was a visiting researcher in the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Governance (C-EENRG), University of Cambridge; the Institut de recherche en Droit International et Européen de la Sorbonne (IREDIES), University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne; the Centre for International Law and Governance (CILG), University of Copenhagen; and the Institute of Political Science and Administration, University of Opole in Poland.
Karla is recognised for her participation in national and international colloquia and seminars, as well as for her publications on the legal treatment of climate change and migration. She has been awarded the "Tomás y Valiente" prize of the University of Valencia for the best legal research in 2021 and has attended multiple specialisation courses in different areas of Law.
As part of her professional career, Karla Zambrano was a practising lawyer at the Valencia Bar Association (ICAV) from 2015 until July 2019, specialising in immigration law and active defense of human rights and the environment.
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Lin Zhou
Lin Zhou
Former visiting student (2023)
Doctoral Researcher, School of Engineering and Design, Technical University of Munich
Biography
Lin Zhou is a doctoral researcher in Land Management and Geospatial Science at the School of Engineering and Design, Technical University of Munich, Germany. In May-November 2023, she was a visiting PhD student at CEENRG, working under the supervision of Professor Andreas Kontoleon at the Department of Land Economy in the University of Cambridge. She received her M.S. degree from the College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University in 2018. Through her research, Lin explores the role of power and trust in collective action in land management practices, with particular focus on access to effective rural land development and commons governance.
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John Zou
John Zou
Former visiting scholar
Biography
Senior Partner, 大成 Dentons LLP, Shanghai Office
Between the year of 2010 and 2014, Mr. Zou was the Managing Partner of Dentons Shanghai Office. He is now a member of the Managing Committee of the Office. He has also been serving as an Arbitrator of Shanghai International Arbitration Center; a Postgraduate Supervisor of East China University of Political Science and Law; an Independent Director of Shanghai Kaikai Industrial Corporation Limited.
Mr. Zou has 20 years of legal experience and his legal knowledge covers all matters in relation to the real estate market, including early-stage development of real estate projects, construction, investment funds establishment, real estate projects financing, mergers and acquisitions and joint development. He has committed to providing full legal services in the real estate operations management for clients in the long term.
He also specializes in providing efficient and high-quality dispute resolution services for domestic and international clients. His outstanding expertise has been highly recognized by clients in the process of handling hundreds of commercial litigation and arbitration cases in courts and arbitration institutions over the years.
Mr. Zou has provided legal services to both domestic and overseas corporations and institutions including Siemens China, Roche, HP China, Philips China, Swarovski, Continental Automotive, Metso, Green Tree Inn, NWCL, Poly Real Estate Group Co. Limited, Sino-Ocean Land, Super Ocean, CETC, MCC, Pingan Insurance Group and Cinda Securities.