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I am a postdoctoral researcher with a background in environmental psychology and marketing, currently working on NWO project ChangeAble. In my research, I adopt systems thinking to examine the role behavioural change can play in addressing climate change.
I have two main streams of research:
- In the first one, I study what conditions help provoke social tipping points – widespread changes in social norms and behaviour that are needed to mitigate climate change. I am particularly interested in how climate policy interventions and collective action can be used to provoke necessary behaviour change by leveraging coordination and associated social tipping dynamics.
- In the second one, I study people’s support for the current and future climate change mitigation and adaptation policy of the European Union. In specific, I examine the joint role of people’s individual characteristics (e.g. values, beliefs), context perceptions (e.g. trust, others’ support, expected policy impacts), and how policy comes about (e.g. how much citizens are involved in making the policy) in determining whether and how much people support a given policy instrument.