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Research Hub ‘Climate Science and Just Transition’
Goals of the Research Hub
The Research Hub Climate Science and Just Transformation combines the strengths of the partners in the Alliance in order to strengthen research in the interdisciplinary fields of climate science and environmental justice. Special emphasis is placed on innovative methods and research designs. Together with relevant associated partners, dialogues are organised with decision-makers and the wider European public. The research impact conferences also serve this purpose. In all these fields, the Research Hub aims to gain a better understanding of the current conflict dynamics related to climate changes with which Europe is confronted.
Planned activities
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- Organise a research seminar in the interdisciplinary field of climate science and just transition, each semester hosted by one Alliance member
- Host a Research Impact Conference
- Contribute to the implementation of the EUPeace Fellowship programme together with other Research Hubs
- Contribute to the establishment of an Early Career Network and EUPeace Doctoral Network together with other Research Hubs
- Organise workshops to identify and support innovative research-based teaching methods flowing back into teaching
- Support the creation of Creative Spaces – transdisciplinary think tanks for the development of innovative and creative ideas for the future and for the exchange between scientific disciplines
Current Activities
Have a look at the key insights and presentations from the recent Research Seminar session on "Climate change, emerging conflicts and population movements" can be found in this.
Speaker of the Hub
The Speaker of this hub is Alfonso Senatore (alfonso.senatore@unical.it) from the University of Calabria, Italy. The substitute speaker is Helmut Breitmeier from the Justus Liebig University Gießen, Germany.
Members of the Hub
The members of the Research Hub come from all alliance partners and from various research disciplines. The Research Hub members combine their scholarly strength in order to organize the above-mentioned activities. The activities themselves are however open to members of the entire EUPeace Alliance, especially members of the EUPeace Early Career and Doctoral Networks, as well as to the wider public.
The Research Hub welcomes additional members from the alliance partners. Every senior researcher who is interested in joining the Hub can request membership by sending a CV to the Research Hub speaker, Alfonso Senatore, and the EUPeace Research Officer, Miriam Tekath. The Research Hub will then decide on the membership request.
The current members of the Research Hub are:
| University | Research Hub Member | Research Focus |
| Marburg (UMR) | Teresa Dickler | Corporate Sustainability; Environmental Sustainable Transformation; Corporate Strategy |
| Markus Roth | Sustainable Stock Corporation Law; Corporate Governance; Private Pensions | |
| Edward Clarke | ||
| Ernst Halbmayer | ||
| Sören Becker | Climate adaptation in cities; Energy transitions and coal regions; Healthy cities and sustainable reconstruction | |
| Peter Chifflard | Water Resources Management; Soil Hydrology; Organic Carbon Fluxes | |
| Giessen (JLU) | Christoph Müller | |
| Stéphanie Eileen Domptail | ||
| Helmut Breitmeier | ||
| Stefan Peters | Extractivism and Rentier Societies; Environmental Peacebuilding; Just Transition | |
| Elena Xoplaki | ||
| Jörn Ahrens | Social impact of climate change in Southern Africa (Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa); Theoretical reflections on modernity and its changing nature in the anthropocene ("Third Nature"); Practices of climate change communication; Consequences of climate change for agriculture, land access, and land distribution | |
| Limoges (UNILIM) | Santanu Saha | Computational Material Science, AI; Materials for Green and Sustainable Energy; High Entropy Materials |
| Virginie Pallier | Water resources; Physico-chemical and chemical water treatment processes; Materials valorization for application in water treatment | |
| Nathalie Bernardie-Tahir | ||
| Leny Patinaux | Energy transition, agriculture and social justice; Green extractivism critical analysis; Sociology of industrial practices and public administration | |
| Gilles Guibaud | Climate and water resource quality; Energy production through methanation; Health and climate | |
| Calabria (UNICAL) | Mariarosaria Agostino | |
| Gilda Catalano | ||
| Alfonso Senatore | Climate change impact on water resources; Water cycle modeling; Water cycle extremes and climate change adaptation | |
| Elvira Brunelli | ||
| Francesco Mauro la Russa | ||
| Comillas (COMILLAS) | José Carlos Romero | |
| Pedro Linares | Energy policy; Energy models; Transport policy | |
| María del Mar Cledera Castro | ||
| Katia Hueso Kortekaas | ||
| Jaime Tatay Nieto | ||
| Pilsen (UWB) | Jan Kopp | climate adaptation; rainwater management; blue-green infrastructure |
| Jiří Preis | Globalization; Sustainable development; African Union | |
| Jan Záhořík | ||
| Dita Hommerová | ||
| Mostar (SUM) | Dragan Škobić | |
| Anđelka Lasić | ||
| Çukurova (SUM) | Çağatayhan Ersü | |
| Sedat Gündoğdu | ||
| Burçak Kapur | ||
| Halime Paksoy | Nanocomposites; Thermal energy storage technologies and materials | |
| Sevda Ünal | New media technologies; Environmental journalism | |
| Sarajevo (UNSA) | Sabina Žero | Analytical and environmental chemistry; Air, water, soil, food quality; Climate change |
| Abdel Alibegović | Social ecology; Ecological security; Biopolitics | |
| Ehlimana Spahić | International Political Economy; Development Studies; Economic Diplomacy | |
| Alen Mujčinović | Food Policy; Organic and sustainable agriculture; Quality Management | |
| Emina Ramić | Biomonitoring of air pollution; Environemental chemistry; Food analysis |
