Originally from Vienna, Austria, I moved to the UK to study Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield in 2006. After a short time out to work for an NGO, I completed my PhD at the University in Sheffield in 2015 and started working at SPAIS the same year.

My research explores climate change governance, climate justice, and just transitions, with a focus on power, representation, and equity at both local and global levels. I see myself an as applied theorist, and work directly with policy makers when I can. I am a former Associate Director of the Cabot Institute for the Environment, sit on the Bristol Advisory Committee for Climate Change, and am a member of various environmental steering groups in the city. I am particularly interested in how non-state actors shape decision-making, and how diversity, equality, and inclusion can be advanced within the environment sector. 

As an educator, I bring these themes into the classroom. I convene How to Be a Political Theorist, where my students encounter different ways of conducting theory and are encouraged to reflect critically on assumptions of what a theorist should look like , and Philosopher Queens, which challenges the sexism and racism of the philosophical canon and re-centres marginalised thinkers. Both of these units aim to help students increase their sense of belonging in political theory.

Beyond my research and teaching, I am a survivor advocate for safer universities. I actively speak and write on sexual misconduct in academia, especially staff-student relationships, pushing for systemic change to ensure higher education is an environment where everyone can thrive. At the University of Bristol, I sit on the sexual misconduct oversight group and helped to formulate our staff-student relationship ban.