Josephine Semb
M.A. Political Science (Columbia University, NY, USA)
PhD candidate
+49 (0)30 1208 434 90 josephine.semb@rl-institut.de
Activities
- Socioeconomic examination of the systemic-energy-transformation
- Public participation in the heating transition
- Democracy in processes if transformation
- Reduction of transformationcosts
Personal Information
Josephine Semb joined the Graduate School of the Reiner Lemoine Foundation in January 2024. Her dissertation is focused on the democratizing effects the restructuring of the society and the economy towards a climate neutral system can have and how those can lead to a just heating transition. In this context, she researches varying forms of public participation and tests how those can strengthen justice and acceptance. Examining individual, economic and communal forms of participation aim at furthering the understanding of the process in which green bottom-up projects soften backlash effects and consequentially reduce costs.
During her Bachelor in Political Science at the Freie Universität Berlin she started researching climate policy under the conditions of justice. In a following graduate degree at Columbia University, New York City (USA), she specialized her studies on the socio-economical aspects of energy policy towards renewables on a global, national and local scale.
Since 2019 she is a member of the FossilExit Research Group, which conducts interdisciplinary research on a global phase-out of fossil energy production. In this context, she works as a researcher in the Department of Energy and Environmental Management at Europa University Flensburg.