See below for a list of all current CEENRG Visiting Scholars.
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Dr Gastón Medici Colombo
Dr Gastón Medici Colombo
Visiting Scholar
Biography
Dr Gaston Medici-Colombo is a visiting scholar in the Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (CEENRG) in the Department of Land Economy from September to December 2024. He has LL.B. (National University of Rosario, Argentina, 2013), LL.M. in Environmental Law (Rovira i Virgili University, Spain, 2016), and a PhD in Law (Rovira i Virgili University, Spain, 2021). Currently, Gastón is a ‘Juan de la Cierva’ Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Barcelona and an Associate Researcher at the Tarragona Centre for Environmental Law Studies (CEDAT). His teaching and research areas are Public International Law and Environmental Law. He has published journal articles, book chapters and books on a variety of issues, including climate and environmental litigation, environmental democracy and the links between human rights and environmental protection.
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Dr Malavika Rao
Dr Malavika Rao
Visiting Scholar
Biography
Malavika Rao is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Visiting Scholar at CEENRG, Department of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge. She is a recipient of the Post-doc Mobility Fellowship (2024-2026) by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). Malavika holds a PhD in International Law from the Geneva Graduate Institute (2024), an LLM in Environmental Law, and Energy and Clean Technology Law from the University of California, Berkeley (2017), and a Degree in Law (BALLB(Hons.)) from Christ University, India (2016). Prior to joining the PhD program, she worked as a Utility Justice Legal Fellow at The Utility Reform Network (TURN) in San Francisco (2017-2018).
Malavika’s areas of research are environmental law, migration law, the right to food, and climate change. Her doctoral work explored the application of the principle of non-refoulement to people fleeing food deprivation. As a post-doc at CEENRG, Malavika works on the SNSF-funded research project "The International Legal Infrastructure Underpinning Food Flows and Distribution". Malavika is a Research Affiliate of the Refugee Law Initiative at the School of Advanced Study of the University of London, and at the Global Migration Centre in Geneva.
Publications
Key publications:
- A TWAIL Perspective on Loss and Damage from Climate Change: Reflections from Indira Gandhi’s Speech at Stockholm, Asian Journal of International Law, Cambridge University Press (2022).
- Should Internal Migrants Who Cannot Return Home Due To COVID-19 be Treated as Disaster IDPs? Lessons from India, Refugee Survey Quarterly (Special Issue on Internal Displacement), Oxford University Press (2020).
- India’s pandemic exodus was a biological disaster and stranded migrant workers should be classified as internally displaced, The Conversation (2021).
- India: Los millones de trabajadores afectados por el éxodo pandémico deben ser considerados desplazados internos (translated), The Conversation (2021).
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Theodore Tallent
Theodore Tallent
Visiting Researcher
Biography
Theodore Tallent is a PhD candidate at the Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE) at Sciences Po, in Paris (France), and is a visiting researcher at C-EENRG. His research explores the acceptability of the low-carbon transition in Europe and the spatial variations in attitudes towards climate policies. He is supervised by Professors Florence Faucher (Sciences Po) and Davide Luca (Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge).
Adopting a mixed method approach, the aim of his research is first to uncover current spatial divides in climate policy attitudes at the European level through survey analyses. Then, through comparative fieldwork in France and the UK, it wishes to better comprehend the different drivers of discontent and the role that "place" is playing in forming these diverging attitudes. Eventually, it hopes to contribute to the discussion around the "just transition" in Europe.
Theodore teaches political science to undergraduate students and is also Teaching Assistant for a general course on "Ecological Literacy", taught to all 1700 first-year students at Sciences Po. He holds an MPhil in Environmental Policy from the University of Cambridge, a Master in European Affairs from Sciences Po as well as a bachelor's degree in social sciences from Sciences Po. He also studied for a year abroad at the New York University.