Coordinator

Karlijn van den Broek

Karlijn van den Broek is an Assistant Professor at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University and visiting scholar at Heidelberg University. She is an environmental psychologist focusing on people’s understanding of complexity in environmental problems (mental models) and how this understanding influences decision-making and pro-environmental behaviour.

E-Mail: k.l.vandenbroek@uu.nl | Profile

Researchers

Michał Bączyk

Michał is a PhD candidate at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University. He is interested in the overlap between circular and sustainable behaviour. Currently, he is working on consumer-related rebound effects of circular business models with a focus on understanding and quantifying consumers’ behavioural responses to circular products and services.

E-Mail: m.baczyk@uu.nl| Profile

Lisette van Beek

Lisette is a PhD candidate at the Environmental Governance group at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development and the Urban Futures Studio. With a background in cognitive as well as environmental sciences, she is primarily interested in how climate science information is presented and perceived and the way in which this informs climate policy. Previous research areas include serious gaming, risk perceptions and framing in scientific visualizations.

E-Mail: l.m.g.vanbeek@uu.nl| Profile

Andreea Beznea

Andreea Beznea is a PhD Candidate at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development and the Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), researching the implementation of circular business models within organisations. Previously, Andreea worked as a policy consultant, contributing to reports, evaluations, and impact assessments of EU environmental policies. Andreea is interested in behavioural science and consumer behaviour, having completed an MSc in behavioural economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her MSc thesis investigated the impact of dual-process theory on environmentally-conscious purchasing behaviour, using a survey-based experiment. More recently, she co-authored a report on the role of consumers in the circular economy and policy mechanisms that can encourage circular behaviour.

E-Mail: a.beznea@uu.nl| Profile

Kristina Bogner

Kristina is an Assistant Professor at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University. She is currently working on the transition of higher education institutions and phase-outs in transitions. She is particularly interested in how individuals feel and behave in these processes. E.g. in the changing practices and identities of (engaged) scholars in the light of the impact orientation of universities. And in emotions and coping resources and responses in phase-outs resulting from sustainability transitions.

E-Mail: k.b.bogner@uu.nl| Profile

Ine Dorresteijn

Ine is an Assistant Professor at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University. She is an interdisciplinary researcher with main interests in human-environment interactions and sustainability. Her research revolves around topics at the intersection of society and ecosystems, such as biodiversity and wildlife, ecosystem services and disservices, livelihoods and human well-being, and the role of governance in shaping social-ecological system dynamics. Transdisciplinarity, the active involvement of stakeholders, is an important component in her research.

E-Mail:i.dorresteijn@uu.nl| Profile

Laura Piscicelli

Laura Piscicelli is an Assistant Professor at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University. Her research focuses on the role of consumers in the adoption and diffusion of sustainable products, services and business models. Laura is an editorial member of the journal Sustainable Production and Consumption.

E-Mail: l.piscicelli@uu.nl | Profile

Hens Runhaar

Hens Runhaar is Associate Professor of Governance of Nature and Biodiversity at Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University and Visiting Professor at Wageningen University and Research. His research focuses on interventions by governments, companies and NGOs to protect or enhance nature and biodiversity, with a special interest in agriculture. Part of his work focuses on how citizens in their different roles as consumers, voters and volunteers, can be stimulated to positively contribute to biodiversity recovery.

E-Mail: h.a.c.runhaar@uu.nl| Profile

Annuska Toebast

Annuska currently teaches Marketing and Sustainable Business Development courses at Utrecht University of Applied Sciences. She has a Masters’s degree in Business Communication and a Masters’s degree in Business Strategy (both Radboud University) and studied at Berkeley (University of California). The goal of her PhD research at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development is to explore the perspective of sustainable fashion companies on how they instigate consumers’ sustainable fashion behavior.

E-Mail: a.toebast-wensink@uu.nl | Profile

Vivian Tunn

Vivian Tunn is an Assistant Professor at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development. Vivian has worked on the circular economy for the last 5 years. First, she investigated circular business models for consumer markets in her PhD and then worked at CBS and contributed to the Dutch work program monitoring and steering circular economy. She is especially interested in how and why consumers adopt, use and interact with circular economy solutions and resulting rebound effects.

E-Mail: v.s.c.tunn@uu.nl | Profile

Tina Venema

Tina Venema is an Assistant professor at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development. In her research, she investigates how and when people’s physical and social environment influences their decisions. A few specific examples include the effectiveness of nudge interventions, the role of habits in behaviour-change and which types of behaviours are most likely to be guided by (implicit) social norms.

E-Mail: a.g.venema@uu.nl|Profile

Nick Verkade

Nick Verkade is Junior Teacher at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development. For his PhD he researched the role of households and cooperatives in the energy transition from the perspective of Social Practice Theory. His current research is in the same vein, with an interest in the design and performance of consumer practices in the circular economy.

E-Mail: n.verkade@uu.nl | Profile

Niko Wojtynia

Niko researches the transition to sustainable food and agriculture systems. One area of interest is the way farmers, consumers and other important actors are shaped by, and in turn can try to influence, the environment within which they operate.

E-Mail: n.wojtynia@uu.nl| Profile