Meet our GSoS Scholarship Students
The GSoS scholarship supports the next generation of sustainability leaders and builds a lasting community of students and alumni who remain part of the GSoS network beyond graduation.
Meet our 2025/26 Scholarship Students:
Undergraduate Scholarship Students:
Name: Leejun Ju
Degree programme: BA in Geography
Bio: Leejun's academic focus spans human geography, sustainable development, environmental social science, and urban studies, with particular attention to how economic, political, and spatial structures shape social outcomes. These interests are grounded in pressing global challenges, including development inequality, climate futures, and the uneven impacts of urban and economic change.
Looking ahead, Leejun aims to build a career in strategic consulting and global affairs, using social science analysis to support effective and practical decision-making. As a GSoS Scholar, he seeks to contribute to sustainable solutions that create meaningful and lasting social impact across diverse communities and regions.
Postgraduate Scholarship Students:
Name: Alana Lopez-Koen
Degree programme: MSc Environment and Development
Bio: Alana’s dissertation research explores multi-level climate information systems and disaster risk reduction in the Dominican Republic, investigating how risk communication moves between national institutions and local communities. Her recent fieldwork in Santo Domingo involved interviews with government officials, collaboration with the National Statistics Office (ONE), and participation in disaster assessment methodology workshops.
Her academic interests in climate governance and community resilience are informed by her work as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Boyacá, Colombia, where she taught entrepreneurship, financial literacy, and digital marketing to support grassroots economic development.
Name: Jiangyi Guo
Degree programme: MSc Environmental Economics and Climate Change
Bio: Jiangyi Guo is an MSc Environmental Economics and Climate Change student at LSE and a GSoS scholarship student. Her academic interests lie in climate policy, environmental economics, sustainable food systems, and the social and health impacts of climate change. Before joining LSE, she studied at Peking University and China Agricultural University, developing interdisciplinary research experience in climate change, air pollution, agricultural systems, and sustainability transitions. Through research, academic presentations, and climate-related initiatives, she hopes to contribute to evidence-based climate policy and low-carbon development in China and internationally.
Name: Jingjing Shi
Degree programme: Double Master's in Environmental Policy, Technology and Health (with Peking University)
Bio: Jingjing Shi is an LSE-PKU Double MSc student following the Environmental Economics and Climate Change pathway at LSE, and a GSoS scholarship student. Her research focuses on climate-related uncertainty, climate finance, and the assessment of climate risks and policies, using integrated assessment modelling and scenario analysis to examine how uncertain socioeconomic, technological, and productivity dynamics may shape mitigation pathways, investment decisions, and sustainable transitions. Her recent work explores how future socioeconomic uncertainty affects climate finance redistribution and energy-system outcomes. Building on this, she hopes to develop uncertainty-aware modelling frameworks that support fairer and more resilient climate policy and investment decisions.
Name: Emily Foster
Degree programme: MSc Environmental Policy and Regulation
Bio: Emily’s research interests center around taking an analytical lens to policy-making processes within the environmental sector, with a particular focus on climate policy and sustainability. Currently, she is working on her master’s dissertation project that examines the influences on the UK’s carbon budgeting process, focusing on both past and present budget creation processes.
Name: Xinyu Hong
Degree programme: MSc Environment and Development
Bio: Xinyu is an MSc Environment and Development student at LSE. She holds a BA in International Studies from the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. Her research interests focus on the social implications of climate change, with particular attention to issues of justice and equity in energy transitions and climate adaptation, including the agency of vulnerable groups and the underlying power structures that shape uneven outcomes in sustainability transitions. She is currently working as a Research Assistant at the Just Transition Finance Lab under Grantham Research Institute.
Name: Li Qingming
Degree programme: LSE-PKU Double Degree in Environmental Policy, Technology and Health
Bio: Li Qingming is a dual-degree MSc student in the LSE-PKU Double Degree in Environmental Policy, Technology and Health, supported by the Global School of Sustainability Scholarship. Her research interests lie at the intersection of green finance, ESG, and climate policy. She has explored these interests through internships at international organisations and research institutions, gaining hands-on experience in carbon pathway analysis, ESG methodology, and climate adaptation policy.
Name: Linnea Roberts
Degree programme: MSc Environment and Development
Bio: Linnea is interested in how low-carbon transition interventions affect rural development and the possibilities for a ‘just transition’. Her dissertation looks at how a palm and cocoa value chain decarbonisation project is affecting participating farmers. Using qualitative methods, she is conducting a month of fieldwork in the Peruvian Amazon with an environmental non-profit.
Name: Zhi Geng
Degree: LSE-PKU Double Degree in Environmental Policy, Technology and Health
Bio: Zhi is a dual master's candidate at LSE and Peking University, with academic interests at the intersection of environmental economics and climate finance. At LSE, her current work examines how climate risk transmits into financial markets and capital allocation decisions. At Peking University, her master's research quantified the financial risks and environmental impacts of water pollution in China's livestock and poultry sector, using econometric regression models and cost-benefit analysis to evaluate remediation investments. Her undergraduate training in Environmental Science at Beijing Normal University provides the natural science foundation underpinning both research directions.
Name: Raisah Khan
Degree programme: MSc in Culture, Justice, and Environment
Bio: Raisah's research interests involve applying an interdisciplinary, political economic approach to questions of sustainability and environmental justice. She is currently studying in the Department of Anthropology at LSE and conducting her master's dissertation in collaboration with Kew Gardens to examine the colonial remaking of ecological landscapes in Bangladesh. Additionally, she is working as a research assistant at the LSE Financial Markets Group to study the impact of mandatory climate disclosures on firms' climate action.
Name: Qiantong Jia
Degree programme: MSc in Environment and Development
Bio: Qiantong's research interests focus on climate change, environmental governance, and environmental policy, with a particular interest in low-carbon transitions and transport decarbonisation. She is particularly interested in how policy instruments can shape environmental outcomes and support climate goals. Currently, she is working on her master's dissertation exploring issues related to electric vehicle adoption and decarbonisation in China.
Name: Jan Niklas Filkorn
MRes/PhD Economics
Bio: Niklas is an MRes/PhD Economics candidate investigating questions in environmental and development economics. Before joining the Department, he worked as a research assistant to Robin Burgess, Oriana Bandiera, and Clare Balboni on climate change adaptation, poverty traps, and conservation policy. Niklas completed the MSc Economics at LSE as well as the BA International Relations at Technische Universitat Dresden.
Full Name: Marie Stege
PhD topic: Navigating Climate and Conflict: Adaptation Actions in Fragile Contexts
Bio: Marie's research is focused on how pastoral and agro-pastoral communities in Somalia and South Sudan adapt to climate change where conflict and climate pressures intersect. Her work examines how people understand, evaluate, and pursue adaptation under these overlapping pressures. She pays close attention to how gender, age, social position, and local meanings of livelihood viability shape who gets to adapt, and how. Her research works to move beyond individualistic models of decision-making in behavioural science, asking why externally designed interventions often fail to reflect local realities. The aim is to generate empirically grounded, community-informed insights for more context-sensitive resilience programming in fragile settings.
Alongside her PhD, Marie works as the Behavioural Insights Advisor in the Climate Research & Innovation team at the International Rescue Committee's Airbel Impact Lab, focusing on climate resilience in displaced and conflict-affected communities. She has worked across Niger, Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia, North East Syria, and Honduras. She holds an MSc in Behavioural Science from LSE and a BA in Emerging Markets from Maastricht University, and has previously worked with GIZ, Ashoka, PwC, and UNESCO.
Name: Alejandro García Cabrera
MPhil/PhD Environmental Economics
Bio: Alejandro’s work examines how human activities influence biodiversity and how these ecological changes affect the wellbeing of both societies and ecosystems. He is also interested in the theoretical foundations of how economics conceptualizes and studies biodiversity and ecological systems. He studied Economics at El Colegio de México and completed an MA at the University of Chicago.
Name: Shruti Bhimsaria
PhD Environmental Economics
Bio: Shruti Bhimsaria is Research and Policy Director at the Economics of Environment and Energy (EEE) Programme at LSE and Sustainability Advisor to the International Growth Centre (IGC). Her work focuses on sustainable growth, climate policy, and development with a focus on emerging economies. Her doctoral research at LSE will examine how contract design and incentives in voluntary carbon markets can improve both resilience outcomes for smallholder communities and the integrity of climate outcomes. Alongside her research, she is interested in building institutions, partnerships, and research ecosystems that strengthen the connection between academic evidence and public policy. Shruti holds a Master's in Public Policy from the University of Chicago and a Master's in Economics from the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics.