10/2023 – 06/2024: THE NEW INSTITUTE, Hamburg, Fellow, Programm: Non-material conceptions of human flourishing, project: “Homo Curans and scenarios of sustainable futures” und Schreiben des Romans „Homecoming“
07/2017 - 06/2024: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) (früher Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik), Bonn, Senior Researcher, Programm für inter- und transnationale Zusammenarbeit, Programm für Umweltgovernance und Transformation zur Nachhaltigkeit,
Seit 2016: Universität Duisburg-Essen (Dozent/Privatdozent), Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaften,
4/-5/2022: Fundação Getúlio Vargas- Escola Brasileira de Administração Pública e de Empresas (FGV EBAPE), Rio de Janeiro, Brasilien, Senior Researcher in Abordnung
10/2018 – 09/2019: Institut für transformative Nachhaltigkeitsforschung (IASS) (jetzt Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum), Potsdam, Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Koordination der Deutschen Wissenschaftsplattform zur Agenda 2030
09/2016 – 10/2017: Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research, Duisburg, Post-Doc-Forschungsstipendiat,
11/2014 – 11/2017: Fraunhofer-Zentrum für Internationales Management und Wissensökonomie, Leipzig
07/2011 – 10/2014: Institut für Infrastruktur- und Ressourcenmanagement, Universität Leipzig, Post-Doc-Forscher, Chapter Scientist: IPCC, Beitrag zur Veröffentlichung des Energiekapitels des Fünften Sachstandsberichts der Arbeitsgruppe 3 des IPCC
01/2008 – 12/2010: Internationales Institut für angewandte Systemanalyse (IIASA), Laxenburg/Wien, Österreich, Forscher und Programmkoordinator, Programmkoordination und Forschung zu internationalen Verhandlungen sowie Stakeholder-Engagement
Studium:
2021: Habilitation, Venia Legendi, Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Deutschland, Prof. Dirk Messner, Habilitationsthese: Setting sustainable low carbon development in motion – negotiation perspectives on transformation pathways
2014: Promotion in Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften (Dr. rer. pol.), Universität zu Köln, Deutschland, Prof. Thomas Jäger, Dissertation: Strategic facilitation of complex decision-making - How process and context matter in climate change negotiations
2011: Promotion in Politikwissenschaft (Dr. phil.), Universität Wien, Österreich, Prof. Eva Kreisky, Dissertation: Violence and misrecognition in identity conflicts – mediating agreements in Southern Philippines
2010: Master (in Mediation) (M.A.), Juristische Fakultät, Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Masterarbeit: Mediation not leading to peace – when finished business remains unfinished
2007: Master (Magister) in Politikwissenschaft, Soziologie und Pädagogik (Mag. phil.), Geschwister-Scholl-Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Deutschland, Masterarbeit: Balikatan military exercises and the US war on terrorism in the Philippines
1999: Bachelor of Arts in Philosophie, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippinen (zwei Jahre)
In this open access publication it is shown, that sustainable low carbon development is a transformative process that constitutes the shifting from the initially chosen or taken pathway to another pathway as goals have been re-visited and revised to enable the system to adapt to changes.
As the Kyoto Protocol limps along without the participation of the US and Australia, on-going climate negotiations are plagued by competing national and business interests that are creating stumbling blocks to success. The book asks how these persistent obstacles can be down-scaled, approaching them from five professional perspectives.
Common but Differentiated Responsibilities: The North-South Divide in the Climate Change Negotiations
Although the climate change negotiations have a mainly scientific basis, it is the political preconditions affecting actors, structures, processes, issues, and outcomes that, for the most part, determine how climate change is addressed.
Strategic Facilitation of Climate Change Negotiations: An Introduction
The UN negotiations on climate change remain complex and difficult, as they have been for thirty-odd years. A major inquiry addressed in this book is if, to what degree, and how obstacles confronting negotiators in the climate talks can be reduced, or perhaps even entirely eliminated, with the help of external facilitators.
Nation-Building and Identity Conflicts: Facilitating the Mediation Process in Southern Philippines
Ending identity conflicts through negotiated agreements is an intractable process that is embedded complexly in the nation-building process. Mediation as one of the possible modes of intervention to resolve identity conflicts is taken as the self-evident instrument to end the 40 year old conflict between the Filipino society at large and the Bangsamoro.
