Katharina Bohnenberger
University of Duisburg-Essen & Deutsches Institut für Interdisziplinäre Sozialpolitikforschung (DIFIS), Germany
She coordinates the research field “Social Policy and Environmental Sustainability” at the German Institute for Interdisciplinary Social Policy Research and is a postdoc at the Institute for Socioeconomics at the University of Duisburg-Essen.
Benedetta Cotta
University of Padova, Italy
She is an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies, University of Padova, Italy. Her research revolves around the topics of European and global environmental governance and on the emergence and implementation of eco-social policies at European, national and local levels.
Tuuli Hirvilammi
Tampere University, Finland
She is a University Lecturer in the Faculty of Social Sciences at Tampere University, Finland. She is a social policy scholar working towards a better integration between social and environmental goals in sustainability transformation. Her research interests include sustainable well-being, eco-welfare state, eco-social policies, degrowth, and ecological economics. In addition to published journal articles, she has co-authored and edited books on post-growth economy, community economies, eco-social policy, and sustainable wellbeing.
Matteo Mandelli
Sciences Po Paris, France
He is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics at Sciences Po Paris. He holds a PhD in Political Studies from the University of Milan. He previously collaborated with the Green European Foundation, the European Trade Union Institute, the European Social Observatory, the Norwegian Social Research Institute, and the European Anti-Poverty Network. He was a visiting scholar at Maynooth University and the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His core research interest is the politics of eco-social policies for a just transition in Europe.
Robin Schulze Waltrup
Bielefeld University, Germany
He is a postdoctoral researcher in the German and Transnational Social Policy working group at Bielefeld University, Germany. Trained as a sociologist and political scientist at Bielefeld University, Ghent University (Belgium), and Umeå University (Sweden), he received his PhD from Bielefeld University in 2023. He was also a Visiting Researcher at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom. His research interests include eco-social policy, sustainable welfare, global governance, and international organisations.
Katharina Zimmermann
Hamburg University, Germany
She is assistant professor of economic sociology at University of Hamburg. She is an expert in comparative welfare state research and work on the intersection of social and environmental protection from an institutional, ideational, and interest-oriented perspective.