GSoS welcomes new Assistant Professors and LSE Fellows
The Global School of Sustainability (GSoS) is delighted to welcome to LSE nine new academics and researchers whose expertise spans behavioural science, philosophy, law, biodiversity economics, climate economics, political economy and sustainable finance.
Fabian Dablander, Kate Nicole Hoffman, Marie Petersmann and Jessie Lu join as Assistant Professors working across GSoS and LSE academic departments, while June Choi, Nan Sandi, Franziska Funke, Peter Wyckoff and David Kampmann join as GSoS LSE Fellows. Together, they bring a wide range of perspectives to GSoS's growing interdisciplinary community and its work to address complex sustainability challenges.
New Assistant Professors
Fabian Dablander is an Assistant Professor in Psychological and Behavioural Science of Sustainability, in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science. His interdisciplinary research combines behavioural science, data science and complex-systems approaches to understand how climate action and wider societal transformation can be accelerated.
Kate Nicole Hoffman is an Assistant Professor in Philosophy, in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method and will collaborate closely with GSoS. Her interdisciplinary research explores sustainability and the relationship between humans and the natural world, drawing on environmental philosophy, science and community-engaged research to address challenges including conservation and climate change.
Marie Petersmann is an Assistant Professor of Law, in the Law School and Director of the Sustainability Law & Policy Clinic (SLPC) supported by GSoS. Her research brings together international law, ecology and critical theory to explore the intersections between environmental protection, human rights and sustainability.
Jessie Lu is an Assistant Professor in Biodiversity Economics, in LSE's Department of Geography and Environment. Her research examines the social costs of environmental degradation, particularly how biodiversity loss and ecosystem decline affect human welfare, combining insights and methods from ecology and economics.
New GSoS LSE Fellows
June Choi is an LSE Fellow whose research examines the economic impacts of climate change, with a particular focus on generating evidence to inform climate adaptation and disaster risk financing strategies.
Nan Sandi is an LSE Fellow working at the intersection of environmental economics, development economics and political economy. Her research involves partnerships with governments and industry to study how market mechanisms and policies shape environmental and economic outcomes.
Franziska Funke is an LSE Fellow whose research focuses on climate policy, inequality, and the behavioural political economy of just transitions. She studies the public support for environmental policies in consumer-facing sectors, alongside their distributional effects. She is also keenly interested in the normative implications of behavioural economics for the climate transition.
Peter Wyckoff has been appointed as LSE Fellow and his work examines the relationship between employment and climate policy in democracies, including how economic and political considerations shape the transition to a low-carbon economy.
David Kampmann has been appointed as LSE Fellow. His research focuses on transition finance and spatial finance, developing new approaches to assess how corporate trajectories align with climate targets. His past work included the development and analysis of asset-level datasets in high emitting sectors such as iron and steel, cement, and power generation.
Charles Stafford, Executive Director of the Global School of Sustainability, said: “Addressing the sustainability challenges we face requires insights from across disciplines, from economics and law to behavioural science, philosophy and finance. I am delighted to welcome this exceptional group to GSoS. Their expertise will strengthen our growing academic community and our ability to develop rigorous, policy-relevant research that can contribute to meaningful change.”