Early-Career Researchers

We’re happy to announce that we are creating an early-career researchers’ (ECR) board comprising of postdocs and late-stage Ph.D. students. The aim is for ECR’s to develop their skills as peer-reviewers under the guidance of our experienced Associated Editors of Climate Action. Are you interested? Apply here.

Due to the number of received applications, only shortlisted candidates shall be contacted. Thank you for your understanding.

Haluk Akay

Haluk Akay is a postdoc at the KTH Climate Action Centre at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. He completed his PhD at MIT in 2022 in Mechanical Engineering using AI to represent engineering knowledge for computation, and is now applying his research to sustainable manufacturing in Sweden. Haluk's MSc research at MIT explored the design and fabrication of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) energy harvesters, and he has industry experience in consumer electronic product design.

 

Charlene Marek          

Charlene Marek is a doctoral student at the Institute for Political Science at University of Heidelberg since November 2020.  She is hired on the ‘Agrobiodiv’ project financed by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry for Science, Research and Art, and is working with local farmers to understand the barriers to upscaling reduced-input production systems, which offer viable alternatives to conventional production without complete conversion to organic. Her dissertation focuses on the policy process and political instruments for upscaling organic agriculture, and establishes a global overview on policy and market development.

 

Nic Badullovich           

Nic Badullovich is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at George Mason University’s Center for Climate Change Communication. He was awarded his PhD from the Australian National University in 2023 where his dissertation focused on the role of framing in climate change communication. His research involves both quantitative and qualitative approaches, and he has a general interest in many dimensions of climate communication from public opinion understanding to message testing, and public mobilization. He also contributes to the Climate Change in the American Mind project developed and driven by Yale University’s Program on Climate Change Communication and George Mason University’s Center for Climate Change Communication.

 

Fredy Polo      

Fredy Polo is a PhD candidate at the Chair of Tropical and International Forestry at the Technische Universität Dresden. Over the course of his professional career, Fredy has managed both commercial reforestation and ecological restoration projects, 
developed research on multi-level forest governance and forest landscape restoration, and provided political and technical advice to policy makers in Latin America, Africa and Europe. His current interests focus on the development of applied research to inform the formulation and implementation of forest-related policies around the world.