NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
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at the Department of Sociology, Environmental and Business Economics.
She is a resource economist and economic historian.
Sarah Kilpeläinen is a Ph.D. candidate in the Faculty of Management
and Business (International Relations) at Tampere University, Finland.
She works on energy policy and sustainable energy transitions.
So Young Kim is Head of the Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy at KAIST with research interests in R&D funding and evaluation, science & engineering workforce, science-based ODA, and governance of emerging technologies. As a public intellectual, she sits on several
high-level committees including the World Economic Forum’s Global
Future Council.
Juha Kiviluoma is a Senior Scientist, VTT Technical Research Centre of
Finland.
Eirik Hovland Kjær is Higher Executive Officer in the Office of the
Auditor General of Norway, with an MA in Political Science from
the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He
specializes in public policy and administration, with a focus on climate
change, environmental politics, and renewable energy transitions. His MA
thesis addressed the question of why Norway built two power cables,
NordLink and North Sea Link, and the implications of these cables for
the Norwegian renewable energy sector.
Florentine Koppenborg earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from the
Free University Berlin. In 2017, she became a postdoctoral fellow at the
School of Governance (Hochschule für Politik, HfP) at the Technical
University Munich. Her research interests are within the area of energy
and climate policy, particularly energy transitions (“Energiewende”) and
interactions with climate policy. She authored several peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on Japan’s nuclear energy and climate policy.
Currently, she is preparing a book manuscript on “Nuclear crisis and
policy change: Safety regulation as a game changer.” She is also embarking
on a new research project comparing energy transitions, and the concomitant phase-in and phase-out of technologies, in Japan and Germany.
Quyen Le Luu focuses her research on the development of energy
systems with consideration to environment protection and social inclusion. She is now working for the up-scaling of renewable energy and
promoting sustainable production and consumption. Quyen was awarded
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at the Department of Sociology, Environmental and Business Economics.
She is a resource economist and economic historian.
Sarah Kilpeläinen is a Ph.D. candidate in the Faculty of Management
and Business (International Relations) at Tampere University, Finland.
She works on energy policy and sustainable energy transitions.
So Young Kim is Head of the Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy at KAIST with research interests in R&D funding and evaluation, science & engineering workforce, science-based ODA, and governance of emerging technologies. As a public intellectual, she sits on several
high-level committees including the World Economic Forum’s Global
Future Council.
Juha Kiviluoma is a Senior Scientist, VTT Technical Research Centre of
Finland.
Eirik Hovland Kjær is Higher Executive Officer in the Office of the
Auditor General of Norway, with an MA in Political Science from
the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He
specializes in public policy and administration, with a focus on climate
change, environmental politics, and renewable energy transitions. His MA
thesis addressed the question of why Norway built two power cables,
NordLink and North Sea Link, and the implications of these cables for
the Norwegian renewable energy sector.
Florentine Koppenborg earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from the
Free University Berlin. In 2017, she became a postdoctoral fellow at the
School of Governance (Hochschule für Politik, HfP) at the Technical
University Munich. Her research interests are within the area of energy
and climate policy, particularly energy transitions (“Energiewende”) and
interactions with climate policy. She authored several peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on Japan’s nuclear energy and climate policy.
Currently, she is preparing a book manuscript on “Nuclear crisis and
policy change: Safety regulation as a game changer.” She is also embarking
on a new research project comparing energy transitions, and the concomitant phase-in and phase-out of technologies, in Japan and Germany.
Quyen Le Luu focuses her research on the development of energy
systems with consideration to environment protection and social inclusion. She is now working for the up-scaling of renewable energy and
promoting sustainable production and consumption. Quyen was awarded