Ocean/climate governance nexus, Marine infrastructures, Marine-based Carbon Dioxide Removal, Foresight, Knowledge Politics
ProjectsSince 2023: Adjunct Assistant Professor, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University
Since 2024: Project Leader in the »ASMASYS II« research project
Since 2021: Associate at SWP, Research Division EU/Europe (2021–2024). Research Cluster Climate Policy and Politics (since 2023); Research Division Global Issues (since 2024)
2015 - 2021: Research Associate, Institute Research Institute for Sustainability (RIFS)
2014 - 2015: Research Analyst & Workshop Facilitator, Foresight Intelligence, Berlin, Germany
Memberships
Review Editor: 7th UNEP Global Environment Outlook Report (GEO-7)
United Nations Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection (GESAMP) Working Group 41: Ocean Interventions for Climate Mitigation
European Marine Board (EMB): Working Group on Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (mCDR)
Horizon Europe Project Advisory Board: Strategies for the evaluation and assessment of ocean-based Carbon dioxide removal (SEAO2-CDR)
Editorial Board: Communications Earth and Environment (Nature)
Visiting Fellowships
Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES), University of British Columbia (2022); Australian-German Climate and Energy College, University of Melbourne (2019); Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, University of Oxford (2018)
Combating the Spread of an Animal-borne Disease with or without Russia
doi:10.18449/2024C23
The United Nations has adopted a treaty to protect the high seas. To leverage the potential of the new “High Seas Treaty” as a global hub for ocean governance, the EU and Germany should start planning now how to engage strategically within this forum, argue Miranda Boettcher and Gerrit Hansen.
doi:10.18449/2023C29
Europe needs to clarify the balance between protection and use
doi:10.18449/2023C12
doi:10.1029/2024EF004902
doi:10.1088/1748-9326/adc93f
doi:10.1038/s44168-025-00237-2
doi:10.3389/fclim.2024.1497476
doi:10.3389/fclim.2024.1509331
doi:10.3389/978-2-8325-5156-1