I’m a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen, with support from the Carlsberg Foundation.
My research investigates the EU’s trade-climate policies, namely climate-related provisions in EU preferential trade agreements and recent unilateral instruments (CBAM/EUDR). I also work on the intersection of international climate and economic governance, namely linkages between the Paris Agreement and trade policy.
More broadly, I’m interested in international cooperation, international institutions, EU trade policy and politics, climate change, institutional linkages, international legitimacy, global political economy and mixed-methods research.
In my PhD, I analysed trade and sustainable development (TSD) provisions in the EU’s preferential trade agreements with a particular focus on climate aspects. In my postdoctoral research, I have extended this focus to the EU’s unilateral trade-environmental measures, specifically the carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) and the regulation on deforestation-free products (EUDR) from the perspective of exporting countries, especially in the Global South.
These measures have triggered immense political contestation, which I explore through a mixed-methods, cross-domain approach that moves beyond surface-level observations (e.g., expected economic impact and anecdotal policy evidence) to chart the nuances of third countries’ perceptions and contestation of these policies.
