Our Careoperative

Michael is a senior scientist and leader of the Societal Futures group at AIT's Center for Innovation Systems and Policy. His project-based work spans international, transdisciplinary collaborations on the social, ethical, and environmental dimensions of research and innovation systems.

Mollie is an established researcher at the Transdisciplinarity Lab of ETH Zurich, focused on environmental values and food systems transformations. Her research with agricultural producers has spanned Canada, the USA, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Switzerland.

Isabel's research centres on the social-ecological dimensions of biodiversity and food systems, with a particular interest in the knowledge and practices of local and indigenous communities.

María's work focuses on biodiversity and ecosystem services in agricultural and forest landscapes, examining how governance structures shape the relationship between biodiversity conservation and human well-being.

Cecilie is an Assistant Professor in Geography at the University of Copenhagen. Her research centres on the globalisation of land-use change and sustainability governance of agri-food systems, with a particular focus on transnational land acquisitions and their effects on smallholder livelihoods.

Jamila is a Researcher and Theme Leader at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. Her work seeks to understand the resilience of food systems — and specifically how interventions enable or constrain the capacity of small-scale farmers to navigate change in biologically and culturally diverse landscapes.

Sonia is a Principal Fellow at the University of Wollongong. Her research explores the role of community values in adaptation to climate change and investigates how groups come together to address environmental challenges — and the social goods that emerge from doing so.

Harry is a Senior Research Associate in the Governance of Food Systems Transformation at TMG Research. His work spans food system transformation in the Global South, global food and nutrition security, energy production, and agricultural economics.

Mónica is a senior researcher and lecturer on regenerative forestry, exploring governance innovations that build transdisciplinary capacities for regenerative forest management. She is also actively engaged in planting Tiny Forests with communities of care in Berlin.

Maria is a Scientist and Research Group Leader for Land Use Decisions in Spatial and System Context at ZALF. Her work explores the relationships between people, biodiversity, and food in agricultural landscapes, seeking to understand how the production–conservation divide might be overcome.

Hannah is a Lecturer in Environmental Geography at Cardiff University. Her research focuses on work and skills in commercial food growing as a dimension of sustainable food systems, and she specialises in collaborations with third-sector organisations and communities, with a particular interest in human–plant relations.

Caroline's research focuses on social-ecological systems, behavioural economics, and the governance of the commons, examining how people cooperate to manage shared resources in the face of environmental change and inequality.

Verena is a Junior Professor and head of the Department of Sustainable Use of Natural Resources at Hohenheim. Her research aims to understand and contribute to sustainability transformations in the agri-food system by integrating knowledge across disciplines and from different societal actors.

Kesheng's research addresses sustainable agriculture and food systems, with a focus on the ecological and social dimensions of farming transitions in diverse geographic contexts.

Vivian is a researcher in the Farming Systems Ecology group at Wageningen University. Her work explores traditional food systems, crop diversity, and the ways smallholder farmers navigate transitions toward more sustainable agricultural practices.

Julie is a Professor of Land Systems and Sustainability Transformations at the Wyss Academy for Nature, with joint appointments at the Centre for Development and Environment and the Institute of Geography, University of Bern. Her research centres on land system changes, their telecoupled drivers, and their impacts on ecosystem services and human well-being in forested tropical landscapes.