Visiting Scholars
We are hosting world-leading scholars for research stays at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development. Explore the topics each visitor is working on below. For more information on how to join us as a visiting scholar, please visit this page.

Miranda Boettcher
Resesarch Associate, German Institute for International & Security Affairs
Preventing or Promoting Problem Shifting? The ITLOS Advisory Opinion and mCDR
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Amandine Orsini
Professor of Political Science, UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles
Youth in Global Environmental Politics: Shifting and Un-shifting Problems?
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Sasha Maher
Lecturer, Business School, The University of Auckland
High Integrity Carbon Markets and the Persistence of Problem Shifting
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Gilbert Michaud
Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy, Loyola University Chicago
Investigating Energy to Agriculture Problem Shifting: What Are The Responses?
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Didier Wernli
Associate Professor, Global Studies Institute & Department of Computer Science, University of Geneva
From Problem Shifting to Regime Shifting in Global Health and Global Environmental Governance
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Florian Rabtiz
Chief Researcher, Kaunas University of Technology; Professor, Vilnius University
Problem Shifting Versus Regime Shifting: Interface Conflicts in the Biodiversity-Health Nexus
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Rahel Zimmermann
PhD Candidate, University of Geneva
Earth System Science as a Transformer to Counter Environmental Problem-Shifting?

Philipp Ratz
Innovation Fellow, Federal Roads Office (Swiss Government)
Earth System Science as a Transformer to Counter Environmental Problem-Shifting?

Yi hyun Kang
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Political Science, Lund University
Two-Layered Problem Shifting? Artificial Intelligence in Environmental Politics
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Peter Bridgewater
Honorary Professor, Australian National University
Biodiversity Conventions in the Anthropocene
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Elizabeth Mendenhall
Associate Professor, University of Rhode Island
Normative Development beyond National Jurisdiction: The BBNJ Agreement, ISA Mining Code, and the Movement for a Mining Moratorium
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