​​​​​Research grants 

 

2025–2030:

• Co-Applicant, European Union COST Action, “Futures-oriented Governance of Outer Space: Towards Peace, Equity, and Environmental Integrity (coordinated by Prof. Florian Rabitz, Vilnius University).

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​2024–2025:

• Impact Explorer Award: Beyond the Status Quo – Towards Transformative Climate Transparency in Least Developed Countries
  Funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).

 

February–June 2024:

• Assessing Solar Geoengineering Governance Scenarios: A Scoping Assessment
  Funded by the Global Challenges Foundation, Sweden.
   

2022–2025:

• Adaptation Financing in Least Developed Countries: A Case Study of Ethiopia
  Africa Talent Fellowship, Wageningen University.
   

2020–2025:

• Assessing the Transformative Potential of Transparency in Global Climate Governance (TRANSGOV)
  Funded by the Netherlands Research Organization (NWO) Open Competition.
   

2020–2021:

• Political Effects of Speculative Climate Engineering Technologies: Impacts on Mitigation Deterrence (CLIMENG)
  Wageningen Graduate School Postdoctoral Talent Programme.
   

2017–2023:

• Re-imagining Anticipatory Climate Governance in the World’s Vulnerable Regions (REIMAGINE)
  Funded by BNP Paribas Foundation Climate Initiative.
   

2017–2019:

• Accountability and (Contested) Knowledge
  Wageningen Center for Sustainability Governance, Research Collaboration Incubator Fund.
   

2014–2015:

• Landscape-level REDD+ in the Global South
  Funded by the Norwegian Bilateral Aid Agency NORAD.
   

2011–2015:

• Carbonizing Forest Governance: An Appraisal of REDD+
  Wageningen Social Science Graduate School (WASS) Fellowship.
   

2011:

• REDD@WUR Network
  Wageningen Interdisciplinary Fund for Research and Development (INREF) Seed Funding.
   

2010–2015:

• Arsenic Mitigation in Drinking Water in Rural Bangladesh
  Funded by NWO-WOTRO Integrated Assessment Grant (lead applicant Delft University).

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Residential Fellowships

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2003–2005:

• Individual Research and Writing Grant on Global and National Governance of Biotechnology
  Funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
  Description: Individual grant, jointly awarded with Robert Falkner.
   

2001–2002:

• Postdoctoral Fellowship in Science and Technology Governance
  Columbia University, Center for Science, Policy, and Outcomes.
  Description: 1-year residential fellowship.
   

1998–2000:

• Global Environmental Assessment Fellow
  Harvard University, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government.
  Description: Two-year residential fellowship.

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Dissertation fellowships

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• International Joseph L. Fisher Dissertation Fellowship, Resources for the Future

• Teresa Heinz Scholarship for Environmental Research, Heinz Family Foundation

• Dissertation Fellowship, Institute for the Study of World Politics (twice)

• Henry Hart Rice Fellowship, Yale Center for International and Area Studies

• Pre-dissertation summer grant, Yale Center for International and Area Studies

• G. Evelyn Hutchinson Fellowship, Yale Institute of Biosphere Studies

• Yale University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 4-year full PhD scholarship

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Undergraduate awards and honors​

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• Milton Sachs Prize for Research in Politics (for Best Bachelor’s Thesis in Political Science)

• Elected member Phi Beta Kappa (US nationwide honors society)

• Brandeis University Undergraduate Fellow (election by faculty)

• Brandeis University Undergraduate Scholarship