PD Dr. Dr. Ariel Macaspac Hernandez

• Since 07/2024: Research Fellow at the GIGA
• 10/2023 – 06/2024: THE NEW INSTITUTE, Hamburg, fellow, Programme: Non-material conceptions of human flourishing
• 07/2017 to 06/2024: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) (formerly German Development Institute), Bonn, senior researcher, Program of Inter- and transnational cooperation, program of environmental governance and transformation to sustainability
• 2016 to present: University of Duisburg-Essen (lecturer/Privatdozent), Faculty of Social Sciences
• 4/-5/2022: Fundação Getúlio Vargas- Escola Brasileira de Administração Pública e de Empresas (FGV EBAPE), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, senior researcher
• 10/2018 – 09/2019: Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) (now Research Institute for Sustainability Helmholz Centre Potsdam), Potsdam, researcher, coordination of the German Science Platform on the 2030 Agenda
• 09/2016 – 10/2017: Käte-Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research, Duisburg, post-doc research fellow
• 11/2014 – 11/2017: Fraunhofer Center for International Management and Knowledge Economy, Leipzig, research fellow
• 7/2011 – 10/2014 Institute for Infrastructure and Resources Management, University of Leipzig, post-doc researcher, tasks: chapter scientist for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) contributing to the publication of the energy chapter of the Fifth Assessment Report of WG3 of the IPCC
• 1/2008 – 12/2010: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg/Vienna, Austria, researcher and program coordinator

Education and Training:

• 2021: Habilitation, Venia Legendi, Institute for Political Science, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, Prof Dirk Messner, Habilitation thesis: Setting sustainable low carbon development in motion – negotiation perspectives on transformation pathways
• 2014: PhD in Economics and Social Sciences (Dr rer pol), University of Cologne, Germany, Prof Thomas Jäger, thesis: Strategic facilitation of complex decision-making - How process and context matter in climate change negotiations
• 2011: PhD in Political Science (Dr phil), University of Vienna, Austria, Prof Eva Kreisky, thesis: Violence and misrecognition in identity conflicts – mediating agreements in Southern Philippines
• 2010: Master (in Mediation) (M.A.), Faculty of Law, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (O), thesis: Mediation not leading to peace – when finished business remains unfinished
• 2007: Master (Magister) in Political Science, Sociology and Pedagogy (Mag. phil.), Geschwister-Scholl-Institute for Political Science, Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich, Germany, thesis: Balikatan military exercises and the US war on terrorism in the Philippines, 13 Feb 2007
• 1999: Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines (two years)