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Staff members with discipline Environmental Studies

Academia develops at the interface of different fields. This is one reason why the University of Groningen is home to a wide range of fields, each with a great number of subject specialists. The overview below, which is based on a standard categorization of fields, will help you find the right expert for each field. If you cannot find the expert you are looking for in this list, try searching via a related field or faculty; you may find him or her there.

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infrastructure and environmental planning, environmental impact assessment, ex post evaluation
prof. dr. E.J.M.M. (Jos) Arts
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jos.arts rug.nl
+31 50 36 33895
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professor Environmental and Infrastructure Planning
Radiation Protection
dr. H.F. (Hielke Freerk) Boersma
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h.f.boersma rug.nl
+31 50 36 35551
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Radiation Protection Expert
Bestuurs(proces)recht; milieurecht
mr. L.S. (Lolke) Braaksma, Dr
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l.s.braaksma rug.nl
+31 50 36 35505
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Universitair Docent
K. (Karina) Castro Arce
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k.castro.arce rug.nl
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Dr.
A.B.M. (Adrien) Chanteloup, MSc
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a.b.m.chanteloup rug.nl
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Input output analysis, Economic growth, Technology and Innovations, Industrial organization, Matrix algebra
prof. dr. H.W.A. (Erik) Dietzenbacher
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h.w.a.dietzenbacher rug.nl
+31 50 36 33813
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Professor
L.R. (Linde) Draaisma, MA
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l.r.draaisma rug.nl
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PhD candidate
Involved in interdisciplinary research and development that promotes sustainable intensification of agriculture, the improvement of rural livelihoods, and furthers the understanding of people-nature interactions. Experience includes agroecosystems analysis and re-design, agroforestry, tropical agronomy and landscape restoration.
J.Y. (Jean-Yves) Duriaux Chavarria
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j.y.duriaux.chavarria rug.nl
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PhD student
I am lecturer in Italian Literature and Culture at the University of Groningen, and PhD candidate in Italian Literature at the Department of Romance Studies and Classics, Stockholm University. In 2019 I graduated cum laude from the Research Master’s program in Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Groningen (NL); I had previously obtained my Bachelor’s degree at the University of Catania (IT) in 2016, where I started studying Italian literature. In Fall 2018, I was a research intern at the University of Ghent, in Belgium, in the framework of the ERC-funded project “Narrating the Mesh” (NARMESH).

My research focuses on non-anthropocentric conceptualizations of animality and general nonhumanity in Italian modernist literature. I build on Herman’s (2011) remodelling of Modernism through the lens of Enactivism, but instead of looking at themes and contents, I prefer to study the texts through a Neo-Formalist perspective (Levine 2015), meaning that the core of my studies points at the formal narrative innovations produced by Italian Modernism. The aim is to identify the forms used to represent nonhumanity and its relationship with humanity, so to offer new tools to represent them in today’s literature. Accordingly, I employ theories drawn from Posthumanism, Ecocriticism, Animal Studies and New Materialism, so to combine an innovative take on forms and an undertheorized topic such as nonhumanity in Italian literature.

The authors I currently have under examination are Carlo Emilio Gadda and Luigi Pirandello.
S.L. (Santi Luca) Famà, MA
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s.l.fama rug.nl
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Valentina Gallo is a Rosalind Franklin Fellow and Associate Professor in Epidemiology and Sustainable Health at Campus Fryslân, University of Groningen where she leads the Sustainable Health flagship. She trained in Medicine and Surgery first and Clinical Neurology after, at University of Rome La Sapienza (Italy). Immediately after graduating she gained some fieldwork experience working with Medicines Sans Frontiers in Sicily with a team managing the health needs of migrants landing by boat on Sicilian coasts after crossing the Mediterranean Sea. Valentina gained an MSc in Demography and Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) in 2004, and a PhD in Clinical and Experimental Neurology at the University of Rome La Sapienza in 2010. Valentina moved in 2006 to London (United Kingdom) to start her academic career. She has firstly worked as Research Assistant of Prof Paolo Vineis at the department of Epidemiology and Public Health of Imperial College London (ICL). The she was then appointed Clinical Lecturer in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine working on the C8 Health project with Dr Tony Fletcher. Finally she was appointed Lecturer first and Senior Lecturer then at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). During her academic career Valentina gained considerable experience in both teaching and research. She was awarded by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine the Introductory Certificate in Learning and Teaching (PGCILT – Module 1) in 2012. At QMUL, she participated in setting up the innovative BSc programme in Global Health where she designed and taught Introduction to Epidemiology and Statistics, Advanced Epidemiology and Statistics, Non-Communicable diseases, Contemporary Issues in Global Health. Valentina was awarded the Teacher of the Year of QMUL in March 2019. During this time, she started interdisciplinary teaching and research approach with her colleague Dr Doreen Montag. At the same time, Valentina was awarded several research grants, including the HEalth and Ageing Data IN the Game of football (HEADING) Study and the BRain health and health AgeINg in retired rugby players (BRAIN) study by the Drake Foundation as a co-Principal Investigator. In total, she obtained the equivalent of £1.3M research funds. Valentina’s research is focused on the epidemiology of neurological disease, molecular and environmental epidemiology. She has worked with large cohort consortia such as the European Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study, and she has set up new studies such the BRAIN and HEADING studies. In 2015 and 2018, Valentina was appointed as Visiting Professor at the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli in Naples (Italy) by Prof Paolo Chiodini. In April 2020 Valentina moved to Groningen and started as Associate Professor and leader of the Sustainable Health Flagship at Campus Fryslân.
dr. V. (Valentina) Gallo
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v.gallo rug.nl
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Rosalind Franklin Fellow, Associate Professor in Epidemiology & Sustainable Health
Administrative law; environmental law; sustainability law
prof. mr. dr. K.J. (Kars) de Graaf
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k.j.de.graaf rug.nl
+31 50 36 35787
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Professor of Public Law and Sustainability
Input - Output Analysis
Industrial Ecology
Network Analysis
K. (Kaan) Hidiroglu, MSc
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k.hidiroglu rug.nl
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Environmental Management System, Industrial Ecology, Circular Economy, Biogas
D.L. (Linh) Hoang, MSc
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d.l.hoang rug.nl
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PhD student
Persuasive Communication
prof. dr. J.C.J. (John) Hoeks
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j.c.j.hoeks rug.nl
+31 50 36 37443
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Full Professor of Communication and Information Sciences
Environmental law, public law, EU law and their mutual relations.
prof. mr. dr. J.H. (Jan) Jans
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j.h.jans rug.nl
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Professor of Administrative Law
Field / Discipline
(Environment and Infrastructure) Planning, Energy Landscapes, Applied Thermodynamics, Governance, Environment and Engineering
dr. F.M.G. (Ferry) van Kann
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f.m.g.van.kann rug.nl
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Assistant Professor Environmental Planning
Environmental humanities, contemporary Anglophone literature, Victorian literature, novel theory, food studies, literature and science, critical animal studies
M.R. (Molly) MacVeagh, PhD
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m.r.macveagh rug.nl
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Environmental child-friendliness, spatial analysis, GIS, PPGIS.
S. (Soran, In Kurdish: سۆران) Mansournia, MSc
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s.mansournia rug.nl
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PhD student
Soundscape studies, Affective Geographies, Citizen Science, Spatial Inequalities, Environmental Justice, Critical GIS. Open to PhD supervision.
E. (Efstathios) Margaritis, PhD
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e.margaritis rug.nl
+31 50 36 33146
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Social, Political, and Environmental History of Modern Europe.  Particular interest in transnational history, and social movements.
S.H. (Stephen) Milder, PhD
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s.h.milder rug.nl
+31 50 36 36023
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Assistant Professor
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prof. dr. H.C. (Henk) Moll
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h.c.moll rug.nl
+31 50 36 34269
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Professor natural resources for sustainable production and consumption
Zeqiang did his Master in 2017 on policy-making of collaborative watershed management in the Pearl River Delta City of South-eastern China. Since 2020, his on-going research has focused on the interdependency of integrated planning and communicative planning of community-based urban flood risk management in delta cities of China and the Netherlands.
Z. (Zeqiang) Pan, MSc
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z.pan rug.nl
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PhD student
African history (particularly Zambia, South Africa, and Nigeria); environmental history; social history; oral history. I study the environmental history of mining and oil drilling in Africa. My aim is to explain why people respond differently to severe pollution and environmental degradation. To answer these questions, I rely on oral history, literary analysis, political ecology, and approaches from art studies. Besides being the coordinator of the MA History track Un/Sustainable Societies in Past, Present, and Future, I am a member of the Faculty Council of Arts and the chair of the Young Arts Network (YARN) for 2022-2023.
I. (Iva) Pesa, PhD
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i.pesa rug.nl
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Assistant Professor Contemporary History
Administrative Law, Environmental Law
mr. S. (Siti) Ruhama Mardhatillah
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s.ruhama.mardhatillah rug.nl
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PhD student
Complex Systems, Network Theory, Energetics, Energy Modelling, Industrial Ecology, Rebound Effect, Finite Time Thermodynamics, Energy Efficiency, Transport Networks, Energy Markets
F. (Franco) Ruzzenenti, PhD
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f.ruzzenenti rug.nl
+31 50 36 34691
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Environmental Leadership
Pro-Environmental Behavior
Finance
Data Science
H.C. Saral
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h.c.saral rug.nl
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PhD student
Bert Scholtens is the Professor of Sustainable Banking and Finance. Fields he operates in Banking, Finance, Economics;
Corporate Social Responsibility, Socially Responsible Investing, Financial intermediation, Energy Finance, Financial institutions (banks, pension funds, insurance companies, mutual funds, etc.), International finance, Financial systems, Environmental economics, Ethical Finance.
Multi-sector economics; Catastrophe input-output analysis; History of economic thought.
dr. A.E. (Bert) Steenge
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a.e.steenge rug.nl
+31 50 36 32720
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Professor
I am an assistant professor of environmental planning at the Department of Spatial Planning and Environment, Faculty of Spatial Sciences. My main research and teaching interests are situated in the broadly defined field of political ecology with empirical attention to environmental conflicts, energy infrastructures, social movements, and climate mobilities mainly (but not exclusively) in Turkey, the larger Middle East, and the Mediterranean. Thematically, I am interested in exploring and supervising topics around climate justice and energy democracy.

Before moving to Groningen, I was a postdoctoral researcher at KTH (Royal Institute of Technology) Environmental Humanities Laboratory, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment in Stockholm between 2016 and 2020. Previous to that, I held 2014/2015 Mercator-IPC Fellowship on climate change at Istanbul Policy Center, Sabancı University. I received my master's and Ph.D. degrees in environmental studies from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2014) and my B.Sc. in environmental engineering from Middle East Technical University (2008).

My academic work appeared in edited volumes and journals such as Dialogues in Human Geography, Environmental Science & Policy, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, Frontiers in Energy ResearchApplied EnergyEnergy Research and Social ScienceTurkish StudiesSustainability ScienceWIREs Climate ChangeGlobal Environmental ChangeEcological EconomicsCapitalism Nature Socialism, Nature Climate Change,  New Perspectives on Turkey, and Journal of Political Ecology. Previously, I co-edited the volume Transforming Socio-Natures in Turkey: Landscapes, State and Environmental Movements (together with Onur Inal, Routledge Environmental Humanities Series, 2019).

Currently, I am co-editing a book titled "Urban Movements and Climate Change: Loss, Damage and Radical Adaptation" (together with Marco Armiero and Salvatore Paolo de Rosa, forthcoming from Amsterdam University Press). I also co-edited a recent special issue of Social Text (Duke University Press) titled "Urban Climate Insurgency".

I serve as an editorial board member of Dialogues in Human Geography (SAGE), as an editor for Sustainability Science (Springer) and as an associate editor for open-access journal, Climate Action (Nature Springer).
dr. E. (Ethemcan) Turhan
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e.turhan rug.nl
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Assistant Professor of Environmental Planning
Keywords to describe research:
social impact assessment; social impact management; project induced displacement & resettlement; social licence to operate; social sustainability; extractive industries & society; business & human rights; human rights impact assessment; Indigenous rights; Free, Prior & Informed Consent (FPIC); benefit sharing; community engagement; public participation; avoiding the resource curse; shared value; corporate social responsibility; university social responsibility; sense of place; place attachment; endogenous regional development; rural communities; social aspects of climate change; applied social research; rural sociology; environmental sociology; natural resource sociology; sociology of agriculture & food; human geography; cultural geography.

Other matters to note:

Prof Vanclay was awarded the 2014 Individual Award from the International Association for Impact Assessment for his sustained contribution to the theory and practice of social impact assessment.
 
Prof Vanclay has been a visiting professor with: the University of Eastern Finland, 2012; the University of Sao Paulo (San Carlos campus), Brazil,  2012; the University of Southern Queensland, 2016; National Taiwan University, 2017; and the North West A&F University, China, 2017. 

Prof Vanclay was President of the International Rural Sociology Association from 2000 to 2004. He also has a long affiliation with the International Association for Impact Assessment including past member of its Board of Directors, and various Committee Chair appointments. He was Program Chair for the Tenth World Congress of Rural Sociology (Rio de Janiero, Brazil, 2000).
F.M.D. (Frank) Vanclay, Prof Dr
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frank.vanclay rug.nl
+31 50 36 38657
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Professor of Cultural Geography
I.M. (Iris) Westra, MSc
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i.m.westra rug.nl
+31 6 1145 5077
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Phd in Hydrogen
Climate change regulation, emissions trading, tradable rights https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Edwin-Woerdman
prof. dr. E. (Edwin) Woerdman
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e.woerdman rug.nl
+31 50 36 35736
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Professor of Markets and Regulation
E.L. (Emma) Zaal
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e.l.zaal rug.nl
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PhD
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