Studies how literature, art, and culture more broadly facilitate and take part in discussions on climate change and the Anthropocene.

j.d.vanamelsvoort@uva.nl +31 (0)20 525 2280

Researches geopolitical economy of energy security (China, EU, Central/West Asia) and China’s Belt and Road external relations, focusing on Central/South/West/East Asia.

m.p.amineh@uva.nl +31 (0)6 55 40 64 25

Explores climate change, sustainable finance, and global justice through decolonial and political economy perspectives.

k.bagchi@uva.nl

Studies how (private) law can serve as a transformative force in steering economic organisations, institutions and systems toward sustainability and long-termism.

m.bartl@uva.nl

Focuses on the effect of market-based climate instruments, including carbon offsets, carbon insetting and sustainability disclosure regimes. She examines how regulatory design, voluntary standards, and corporate claims shape environmental integrity, market credibility and consumers and investor decision-making.

v.battocletti@uva.nl

Faculty of Law

Dep. Private Law

y.c.vandenberg@uva.nl

Researches integrating transport and urban planning for humane, sustainable, just cities.

l.bertolini@uva.nl +31 (0)6 55 40 62 76

Studies how law structures labour relations within food systems. His earlier work focused primarily on migrant workers.

v.bogoeski@uva.nl

Explores social tipping points dynamics: how can marketers, consumers, governments and businesses help to make green behaviors more mainstream?

j.w.bolderdijk@uva.nl

Researches how transformations of agricultural and food systems are linked to processes of spatial and political contestation and polarization, across various European countries.

W.R.Boterman@uva.nl

Studies how performance metrics encourages people in organization to consider how their decisions work out in the long run. Studies include targets, metric and performance management.

J.F.M.G.Bouwens@uva.nl

Explores marginalisation and resistance in urban contexts, focusing on Indigenous urbanisation and Roma communities in Latin America and Europe.

d.a.brablecova@uva.nl

Faculty of Science

Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences

F.BrancodosSantos@uva.nl +31 (0)20 525 7066

Studies how environmental beliefs and emotions translate into observable behavior and public support for climate policy.

c.brick@uva.nl

Researches international law and governance for the protection of freshwater, with a particular focus on the potential of legal frameworks to structure choices between competing water uses and shape questions of (re)distribution.

c.m.brolmann@uva.nl +31639348255

Explores cleaner, efficient chemical reactions/processes via homogeneous catalysis, developing new reactions, energy storage/release, and earth-abundant element replacements.

B.deBruin@uva.nl +31 (0)20 525 6495

Researches the intersection between private law and sustainability in general and climate change litigation and the rights of nature in particular.

l.e.burgers@uva.nl +31639362271

Studies the political economy of climate finance, with a focus on the global south. Her broader research agenda concerns the politics of public goods provision in low-income countries.

r.d.carlitz@uva.nl +31628566688

Researches small-scale producers’ role in sustainable Latin American forest systems, focusing on agroecology, traditional knowledge, socioenvironmental conflicts, and climate justice.

f.decastro@uva.nl

Studies climate-related disasters and reparations, and diverse climate (im)mobilities, from ethnographic and critical discourse perspectives.

m.chetia@uva.nl

Studies preventing Earth system breakdown via plant-rich diets, inequality, and collective action, partnering with society using behavioral science, complexity theory, and data analysis.

f.dablander@uva.nl

Studies how people in the past attempted to make the world more sustainable through societal initiatives like trade unions, fair trade, environmental activism, and church actions.

p.h.vandam@uva.nl +31 (0)20 525 4466

Studies how AI and digital technologies shape human agency in sustainability-related decisions. His work examines how AI-enabled marketing and information environments can support more sustainable.

j.demmers@uva.nl +31 (0)6 28 95 78 15

Studies energy and critical raw materials supply chains; critical logistics; energy and environmental humanities.

J.Diamanti@uva.nl

Researches consumer behavior, and individual and system factors influencing this behavior. Her scientific work focuses mainly on topics like sustainability, greenwashing, materialism and well-being.

W.M.vanDolen@uva.nl

Investigates the intersection of environmental policy and inequality. He uses theoretical and empirical approaches to answer questions such as "What are the distributional effects of carbon taxes?".

t.r.g.r.douenne@uva.nl +33616507531

Climate change and house price dynamics.

M.I.Droes@uva.nl

Maps and theorizes strategic climate litigation in Europe, including in particular its direct and indirect consequences for the democratic process.

c.eckes@uva.nl +31 (0)20 525 8513

Studies how law reshapes corporate responsibility in global value chains, and how climate, sustainability and due diligence frameworks are interpreted and operationalized in corporate practices.

k.h.eller@uva.nl

Focusses on the mitigation of greenhouse gases emission from the energy sector from an International, EU Law and transnational perspective.

m.fermeglia@uva.nl +31 (0)20 525 2280

Researches strategies to reduce health and mental health impacts of extreme weather events using a complex-systems approach.

a.t.k.finnemann@uva.nl

Studies the intersections between science communication, journalism, and scholarly communication. Her climate-focused work examines how journalists report on climate-related issues and how audiences respond to that reporting.

a.l.fleerackers@uva.nl +31 (0)20 525 2980

Investigates cross-border governance involving corporations, civil society, and governments, with a focus on climate change in global production, environmental due diligence laws, and climate adaptation in supply chains.

L.W.Fransen@uva.nl +31 (0)20 525 3012

Faculty of Humanities

Capaciteitsgroep Nederlandse Letterkunde

G.E.H.I.Franssen@uva.nl +31 (0)20 525 2569

Studies fundamental and applied aspects of electrochemical energy conversion and production of chemicals and fuels using renewable electricity.

a.c.garcia@uva.nl

Develops energy systems models to study decarbonization pathways, and the role of energy service demand in climate mitigation strategies.

a.s.gaur@uva.nl

Studies why firms and markets are differentially affected by their social, political, and natural environment. His work focuses on sustainability contexts.

p.georgallis@uva.nl

Focuses on Environmental Planning and Governance, examining the conflicts and complexities in transitioning to climate-neutral, sustainable cities.

M.Giezen@uva.nl +31 (0)6 55 40 63 46

Researches strategies, governance and politics of transitions, especially on urban energy and water issues, agriculture and health care. Developed practiced methods for transdisciplinary transition projects.

J.Grin@uva.nl +31 (0)20 525 2108

Studies how firms’ sustainability disclosures influence investors, consumers, and stakeholders, focusing on regulation, green contracting, and ESG standard-setting.

a.n.grosskopf@uva.nl

Researches plastic materials transition from biorefining non-food sugars to sustainable monomers and high-performing polyesters, end-of-life closed-loop chemical recycling and biodegradation.

G.J.M.Gruter@uva.nl +31 (0)6 539 48 443

Researches equitable fossil fuel phase-out, North-South geopolitics in environment/development, global to local links and sustainable nexus approaches.

J.Gupta@uva.nl +31 20 5254366

Explores how retailers and consumers react to current trends and regulatory and environmental changes.

J.Y.Guyt@uva.nl

Faculty of Science

Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences

M.A.Haring@uva.nl +31 (0)20 525 7663

Studies how attitudes, risk-perception, and decision-making shape societal responses to sustainability transitions.

F.vanHarreveld@uva.nl +31 (0)20 525 7263

Researches the ways in which people in the past produced knowledge about nutrition and the relationship between food, health, and the environment.

Researches refugee law, human rights and the interaction between national and European law.

l.hillary@uva.nl

Researches broad and interdisciplinary themes in climate and environmental ethics, including individual climate obligations, principles of justice for the energy transition, coastal adaptation and mobility, and rights of nature initiatives.

c.j.hickey@uva.nl

Examines the geopolitics of natural resources in Latin America, focusing on mining, fossil fuels, and the interplay of local and global interests.

b.b.hogenboom@uva.nl +31 (0)20 525 3383

Investigates freshwater and marine ecosystems, with a particular focus on algae and photosynthetic bacteria of lakes and oceans.

J.Huisman@uva.nl +31 (0)20 525 7085

Explores how 20th-century organizations like the League of Nations and UN imaged planet Earth as a regulatable “resource” in food, science, and environmental history.

a.igra2@uva.nl

Faculty of Law

Public International Law

m.kanetake@uva.nl

Studies the governance of financial markets, with a specific focus on how climate change and new macrofinancial ideas are reshaping the tasks of central bankers and banking supervisors.

j.m.vantklooster@uva.nl

Researches how companies deal with climate change and other societal issues, their drivers and barriers to (in)action and the role of internal and external stakeholders in this.

j.e.m.kolk@uva.nl

Investigates corporate sustainability through cross-sector interactions between business, the public sector, and civil society.

A.E.Kourula@uva.nl +31627655757

Investigates the mechanisms and dynamics of complex adaptive systems, in particular urban-rural water, food production, and sustainability transformations.

e.h.krueger@uva.nl +31 (0)20 525 1279

Studies conflict, resilience, and violence in modern European history, with a focus on themes such as wartime blockades, military occupations, grey zone warfare, and foreign fighters

s.f.kruizinga@uva.nl +31 (0)20 525 7733

Focuses on understanding sustainability, from social, economic, and environmental perspectives, in healthcare, including hospitals and pharmaceutical industries.

b.kucukkeles@uva.nl

Studies agricultural experiments that aim to secure sustainable and scalable food infrastructures, focusing on agricultural biodiversity and water security.

P.Lagerwaard@uva.nl

Researches public opinion on environmental and food policy and interventions to promote more sustainable behavior among producers, consumers, and voters.

h.lee@uva.nl

Computational modelling of complex social systems.

M.H.Lees@uva.nl

explores global inequality and transnational governance through private actors in the digital economy. She examines how questions of value, ownership, and justice structure our relationship to land and community.

a.b.leiter@uva.nl

Private Law – Amsterdam Center for Transformative Private Law

c.leone@uva.nl

Studies the interactions of sustainable development issues and socio-ecological concerns with international economic law, particularly trade and finance.

j.a.p.lorenzo@uva.nl +31 (0)6 39 36 23 54

Researches how national governments, global city networks, financial institutions, philanthropic foundations, and digital infrastructure providers have become enrolled in the global effort to address climate change.

l.a.mai@uva.nl

Focuses on understanding and stimulating pro-environmental behavior. Her work examines how social influence, people’s sense that they can make a difference, and digital media shape motivation for environmental action.

M.H.C.Meijers@uva.nl

Studies the relationship between ecological well-being, health and climate change.

E.M.Moyer@uva.nl

Studies molecular mechanisms by which plants sense stress and acquire nutrients, with the aim to improve food security and sustainable agriculture, especially in relation to the nitrogen & menure crisis, and production of plant-based proteins.

t.munnik@uva.nl +31 (0)20 525 7763

Investigates how scientific knowledge related to climate change can be incorporated into, or used by, international law.

n.nedeski@uva.nl +31 (0)20 525 3741

Researches the urban in international law and global governance against the backdrop of an urbanising planet challenging sustainability, sustainable cities, and the more conventional international law and governance approaches.

j.e.nijman@uva.nl

Studies how biological and physical processes shape biogeochemical cycling in the ocean. Her work focuses mainly on feedbacks between climate change and marine carbon cycling.

c.nissen@uva.nl +31205256021

Researches international legal protection of oceans, freshwater, biodiversity and climate systems. His scientific work focuses mainly on the complexity of problems such as climate change.

P.A.Nollkaemper@uva.nl +31 (0)20 525 2827

Researches standard setting in, and the regulation of corporate sustainability reporting. Current research is focused on the evolution, nature, and impact of climate- and nature- related risk disclosure.

b.g.d.odwyer@uva.nl +31 (0)20 525 4260

Explores software energy footprints, EU 2050 climate targets, data regulations, and knowledge economy. Furthermore, she investigates PETs trade-offs and LLMs for efficient code.

a.m.oprescu@uva.nl

Researches sustainable finance regulation like climate disclosure rules to support transition investments and curb greenwashing.

a.m.pacces@uva.nl

Studies the un/just implications of climate action, the role of creative methodologies in understanding and addressing overlapping urban crises, and everyday decision-making in the context of climate change.

k.paivahenrique@uva.nl

Studies the energy transition and sustainable development, with a focus on the hydrogen value chain and carbon policy.

d.peyerl@uva.nl +31 (0)20 525 8626

Studies how the law can help nurture a financial sector and business climate in which corporate actors are inclined to do the right thing.

k.c.i.pijl@uva.nl

Researches methods, tools, and software for faster, sustainable, reliable, secure computer systems, focusing on embedded/edge systems, cyber-physical systems, and edge AI.

a.d.pimentel@uva.nl

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

Programme group: Anthropology of Health, Care and the Body

b.poleykett@uva.nl

The environmental fate of emerging chemical contaminants.

a.praetorius@uva.nl +31 (0)20 525 1279

intersection of ESG and politics 

s.c.g.preuss@uva.nl

Explores new molecular technology related to the green energy transition, including (light-driven) hydrogen formation, CO2 conversion, and electrochemical conversions in the context of the electrification of the chemical industry.

j.n.h.reek@uva.nl +31 (0)20 525 6437

Investigates how the design of market institutions affects the pro-sociality and sustainability of our behavior. Her applications focus on the market for cancer treatments, and the market of land ownership for nature preservation.

G.Romagnoli@uva.nl

Researches transitions in complex socioeconomic systems, using computational science and complex systems theory to study sustainable development pathways.

d.roy@uva.nl

Impact of the food environment on health.

a.deruijter@uva.nl

Researches at the intersect of political ecology and land systems science, with particular focus on land-use change, deforestation-free supply-chains, sociobioeconomy and human rights from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and local communities in Brazil.

g.russolopes@uva.nl +31 (0)20 525 3498

Studies trust in science, broadly defined. His research program on the psychology of science focuses on science rejection, science as a worldview, and perceptions of scientists.

B.T.Rutjens@uva.nl

Explores the urban metabolism, material flows in and through cities and the environmental footprint of urban development.

f.savini@uva.nl +31 (0)20 525 5085

Researches how multinational enterprises manage sustainable innovation across global value chains at the intersection of international business and innovation.

V.G.Scalera@uva.nl

Researches new materials and physical principles for efficient light-energy conversion. His work spans from single-photon generation for quantum communication to sunlight conversion for more sustainable horticulture.

P.Schall@uva.nl +31 (0)20 525 6314

Researches transnational governance and the politics of sustainability in the global economy, with a particular focus on corporate responsibility, global supply chains, biodiversity governance, and AI-assisted text analysis.

P.Schleifer@uva.nl

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

CW : Political Communication & Journalism

A.R.T.Schuck@uva.nl +31 (0)20 525 3283

Using data-oriented methods to envision climate proof environments.

h.alavi@uva.nl

Studies geodiversity, spatial analysis, and land use and land cover change in a dynamic environment.

A.C.Seijmonsbergen@uva.nl +31 (0)20 525 8137

Studies how people navigate ethical challenges in decision-making, focusing on honesty, willful ignorance, and the influence of algorithms on human judgment.

S.Shalvi@uva.nl

Faculty of Science

Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences

n.r.shiju@uva.nl +31 (0)20 525 6515

Develops sustainable functional molecules from renewables using synthetic, mechanistic, and computational chemistry, pioneering circular chemistry and main-group photochemistry for small-molecule activation.

j.c.slootweg@uva.nl +31 (0)20 525 8367

Persuasion and empowerment, applied in the domain of sustainability.

E.G.Smit@uva.nl +31 (0)20 525 2104

Digital health communication.

E.S.Smit@uva.nl +31 (0)6 25 25 85 58

Studies relationships between economic activity and biodiversity conservation, including questions around the valuation of nature, the role of entrepreneurship, and science communication.

j.sol@uva.nl

Explores the political and ecological dimensions of heritage, art and museums.

c.p.sterling@uva.nl

Researches climate change politics in the UK and EU, with a specific focus on how security discourses play a role in climate change debates.

a.j.telford@uva.nl

Studies how sustainability and assurance practices improve the quality, credibility, and trustworthiness of climate and other sustainability information disclosed by companies and relied on by various stakeholders.

u.thuerheimer@uva.nl

Focuses on environmental, social, and psychological conditions driving sustainable consumer decisions like plant-based foods, transport, true pricing, reusables, and upcycling.

c.m.thuerridl@uva.nl

Researches how international investment law impacts the rights of communities affected by extractive projects and hinders the phasing out of fossil fuels.

s.e.triefus@uva.nl 0703420300

Understanding how transboundary crises shape people's attitudes and behavior: dynamics of attitude and policy position changes among political elites and citizens.

a.unan@uva.nl +31 (0)20 525 2659

Faculty of Law

Constitutional and Administrative Law

j.uzman@uva.nl +31 (0)20 525 3966

Researches how to anticipate intended and unintended consequences of interventions in complex social systems. He develops mathematical and computational models of collective behaviour.

v.v.vasconcelos@uva.nl +31 (0)6 00 00 00 00

Studies international legal history and theory, with a focus on international economic and climate law.

i.venzke@uva.nl

Investigates energy-related conflicts as well as governance, collaboration, and energy justice in the implementation of heat transitions and other decarbonisation measures in the built environment.

i.verhoeven@uva.nl +31 (0)20 525 3504

Researches the use of trade measures to pursue societal objectives, including climate change, and how international trade law evolves in response to the multiplication of climate measures affecting trade.

g.vidigal@uva.nl

Faculty of Science

Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics

l.m.vanvliet@uva.nl

Studies drivers of sustainable consumer and citizen behavior (e.g. plant-based eating), with a particular focus on social norm perceptions as a lever for social change.

M.Vock@uva.nl

Studies how different values and human-animal relations are negotiated in a world caught between the growing demand for meat, pressing ecological challenges, and rising concerns for animal welfare.

e.vogel@uva.nl

Researches how plants interact with soil organisms, how these interactions respond to global change, and what the consequences are for ecosystem functioning.

f.t.devries@uva.nl

Studies the intersection between economics and psychology, using the tools of experimental economics and game theory.

j.j.vanderweele@uva.nl +31 (0)20 525 4252

Studies the role of EU law in managing complex and systemic risks related to health, the environment, and sustainability.

m.weimer@uva.nl +31 (0)20 525 2280

Studies the role of business in respecting human rights, promoting peace and human dignity, and reaching the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

M.K.Westermann-Behaylo@uva.nl +31 (0)6 39 07 81 52

Researches international climate and sustainability law, focusing on justice, equity and structural transformation in response to planetary crises.

m.j.wewerinke@uva.nl

Studies cognitive-motivational mechanisms in addiction and psychopathology and behavior change methods to adjust undesired behavioral tendencies in relation to these disorders.

R.W.H.J.Wiers@uva.nl +31 (0)20 525 6842

Researches how urban environmental planners and water managers are preparing cities and regions to cope with climate change through the creation of green infrastructures.

j.j.willems@uva.nl

Studies how societal actors negotiate and (de-)legitimize solutions to environmental crises in public by analysing solution-focused discourses in the news and on social media platforms.

A.Wonneberger@uva.nl

Politics of environmental market making.

P.W.Zuidhof@uva.nl +31 (0)20 525 6129

Investigates how the intersection of media and religion reconfigures knowledge, practices, and resistance within Muslim environmentalism in response to shifting environmental policy and the climate crisis.

m.z.arifin@uva.nl

Studies the psychological factors that shape sustainable behaviour in healthcare, identifying barriers and developing evidence-based interventions to promote environmentally conscious clinical practice.

c.a.batcup@uva.nl +31 (0)6 35 65 65 64

Examines host state liability under international investment law for climate inaction.

n.berger@uva.nl

Analyzes Eco-Islam narratives and green Islam campaigns across social media platforms.

l.p.damayanti2@uva.nl

Explores how artistic research reconfigures ethical human-more-than-human relations, using collaborative performance interventions for ecological accountability and transformative engagement.

m.c.dietrich@uva.nl

Studies how climate adaptation policies differentially impact households across age cohorts and income brackets using quantitative macroeconomic models.

s.e.g.dinlemez@uva.nl

Studies corporate responsibilities for climate change under international law, investigating the absence of direct legal obligations and how public international law engages voluntary corporate commitments.

z.du@uva.nl

Investigates how COVID-19 threats influence motivation to address climate change and the refugee crisis, alongside psychological drivers of sustainable consumption.

s.ekinci@uva.nl +31 (0)6 29 42 65 65

Researches how corporate actors combine lobbying and litigation to influence EU policy, particularly in climate policy through the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) and pesticides regulation.

s.h.h.fleerackers@uva.nl

Studies corporations’ role in food system transformation, examining capital ownership’s impact on food labour, nonhuman animals, and Ubuntu philosophy in agro-food systems

y.e.m.gerber@uva.nl +31 (0)6 39 77 96 12

Researches how property logics shape international law’s governance of nature using a Law and Political Economy lens to analyze global economic law, inequality, and environmental degradation.

m.heipertz@uva.nl

Studies the impact of climate change on real estate markets, examining direct effects like extreme weather, the green transition, and land subsidence’s influence on Dutch house prices.

l.hofmann@uva.nl 0000000000

Investigates nature-related financial risks and central bank strategies, using AI to analyze reports, climate data, and high-frequency sources for sustainable finance.

m.r.h.dejonge@uva.nl +31631028527

Investigates behavioral insights for climate policy, combining them with systems analysis for Dutch dairy farm transitions and psychological network analyses.

r.joziasse@uva.nl

Researches strategic climate litigation’s consequences for democratic participation and representation, particularly transnational cases involving non-resident noncitizens addressing the global climate crisis.

c.v.kammeringer@uva.nl

Explores how asymmetries in the international financial and monetary system – and their inherent social and environmental contradictions - are facilitated through legal practices, agents and organizations.

a.a.k.karg@uva.nl +31205254062

Investigates the drivers of misaligned capital flows to develop new instruments for Paris-aligned banking, using interviews to trace credit allocation parameters shaped by bank architecture and monetary design.

a.kervers@uva.nl

Investigates ecocide criminalization as an international crime for severe climate and environmental damage, using critical legal theory, international criminal law, environmental philosophy, and posthumanism.

m.kooijman@uva.nl

Studies how firms’ strategic commitments shape public debate around controversial climate solutions like carbon capture, using quantitative, theory-driven analysis of secondary data.

a.lanzetti@uva.nl

Researches anthropocentrism in (non)human rights discourse and explores the interrelations between critical political philosophy, legal theory, ecology, and rights-based environmental protection strategies.

j.leeuwenkamp@uva.nl

Researches public–private partnerships in the water and energy sectors, examining how they can support the phase-out of fossil fuels.

o.b.moralesasencio@uva.nl

Studies the macroeconomics of climate adaptation, focusing on increasing flood risk, optimal public investment in flood protection, and the welfare costs of mispriced flood risk in housing markets.

t.a.prins@uva.nl

Studies the motivations behind climate activism, combining quantitative and qualitative methods to explore what drives collective action and how people experience participating in social movements.

a.a.sach@uva.nl +31 (0)6 23 27 36 43

Researches adaptive resource-efficient AI for edge devices, hardware-aware ML, and distributed intelligence to cut cloud energy use and carbon footprint.

d.sapra@uva.nl

Examines how deontological constraints within Kantian ethics provide fair grounds for moral justification in collective action problems like climate change, linking ethical reasoning to equitable climate policy.

t.m.smits@uva.nl

Develops a relational constitutional approach to technology governance, analyzing how infrastructural power and distributed responsibility shape control and contestation of AI, platforms, data, and climate technologies.

n.m.waals@uva.nl

Investigates future generations in climate protection, intergenerational justice, and democratic theory, exploring international and EU law’s role amid strategic climate litigation’s democratic implications.

s.waswa@uva.nl +31 (0)6 39 36 22 61

Researches how environmental sensing technologies influence the right to privacy, examining their implications for legal and personal protections.

b.zeybek@uva.nl