PROJECT TEAM
Assistant Prof. Xiao-Shan Yap
Director and Principal Investigator
Xiao-Shan Yap is Assistant Professor in Innovation and Global Governance at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Faculty of Geosciences at Utrecht University and Principal Investigator of PLANETSTEWARDS. In 2020, she founded ‘Earth-Space Sustainability’, the first science and policy initiative aiming at ensuring sustainable and functional earth-space systems. She is also Co-Director of the Working Group on Earth-Space Governance at the Earth System Governance Project, Chair of the 2024 Earth-Space Symposium, and a senior member of the Steering Group at the Sustainability Transitions Research Network (STRN).
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Blake Harvey
PhD Candidate
Blake is a PhD candidate in Innovation for Earth and Space Sustainability. She has conducted research on justice and equity in global climate change governance, investigating hegemonic discourses within scientific research on solar geoengineering and hypothetical large-scale climate intervention. Her university award-nominated research combines critical justice perspectives to provide policy and research recommendations to advance pluralistic earth system futures. As Network Coordinator of the Earth System Governance Project, she mobilized the largest research network aiming to advance knowledge at the interface between global environmental change and governance. She holds an MSc in earth system governance from Utrecht University and a BA in environmental studies from Boston College.
Erin Jones
PhD Candidate
Erin Jones is a PhD candidate working on PLANETSTEWARDS. As a senior researcher at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, she worked at the intersection of sustainability, democracy, and social justice issues. Most recently, Erin co-led a project on global climate activism through the Civic Research Network. She holds a masters in European public policy from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, where she conducted research on topics including internet governance and multilateral decision-making. During her bachelor's at Johns Hopkins, she double-majored in creative writing and international studies with a focus on political theory.
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Ori Morales Hernández
Research Assistant
Ori Morales Hernández is the research assistant working on the PLANETSTEWARDS project. They recently graduated from the MSc in History and Philosophy of Science at Utrecht University, and have a background in Sociology and International Relations from Erasmus University of Rotterdam. Their recent research has focused on performative and queer epistemologies in the 20th century. They are interested in exploring the philosophical implications of the use of science and technology within space governance.
Charlotte Ballard
Communications Advisor
Charlotte Ballard is Communications and Impact Advisor at PLANETSTEWARDS and at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University. Her work focuses on developing impact pathways for research of and for transformative change towards a more sustainable and equitable society, for both people and nature.
PROJECT ASSOCIATES
Assistant Prof. Timothy Pape
Timothy Pape is an Assistant Professor in the School of Earth, Environment and Society at Bowling Green State University and Courtesy Faculty in the Environmental Sciences Graduate Program at Oregon State University. His interdisciplinary research focuses on how human-nature relationships affect ecosystem governance on Earth and in outer space. He uses various social science methods to understand the values, associations, and assemblages which inform environmental decision-making and sustainable resource planning.
Funding
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union´s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme (Grant Agreement grant agreement no. 101117483).
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