We are very pleased to welcome Alex Chantilas Garcia-Duarte as a visiting researcher at the Department of Physical Geography and Landscape Ecology, Institute of Earth System Sciences. Alex has joined join the Working Group for Digital Landscape Ecology on the Go Green Next project.
As a Fulbright Scholar, he will stay with the team until July 2025 thanks to funding from the United States Department of State and the Deutsch-Amerikanische Fulbright-Kommission. Alex joins us from the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science after having completed undergraduate studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
His Master’s dissertation in Environment and Development investigated the Inflation Reduction Act as a potential driver of just labour transitions in the United States while past research investigated multilevel governance challenges for flood response and resilience. On the Go Green Next Project, he will work alongside Professor Nadja Kabisch and Dr. Thea Wübbelmann to understand how emergent urban planning strategies, like Nature-based Solutions, can offer climate mitigation while benefitting human and ecosystem health. If you would like to contact Alex, please send him an email at a.s.chantilas@lse.ac.uk or alexander.chantilas.garcia-duarte@stud.uni-hannover.de.
