Former Team Members
Dr. Alejandro Esguerra Portocarrero
Division of Social Sciences
Department of Environmental Politics
Helmholtz Centre
for Environmental Research – UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany

Areas of Expertise & Research
- Global Environmental Governance
- Non-state actors and Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships
- International Science-Policy Organizations
- Sustainability and Higher Education
- Constructivist Theories of International Relations, Sociology of Knowledge and Science and Technology Studies
- Interpretative Methods
Vita
06/2014 - 03/2015
Post-Doc research fellow at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig
06/2014
Dissertation defense of “The Politics of Beginning. An Inquiry into Transnational Governance in Action”
10/2012 - 05/2014
Research fellow at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig
11/2012 - 06/2013
Research fellow at the Free University Berlin, Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science, Center for Transnational Relations, Foreign and Security Policy
08/2011 - 12/2011
Visitor at the Science & Technology Studies Department, Cornell University, USA
01/2009 – 06/2014
PhD Candidate at the Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies (BTS), Free University Berlin – WZB – Hertie School of Governance; Advisors: Prof. Thomas Risse (FU Berlin); Prof. Hubert Knoblauch (TU Berlin)
09/2005 – 06/2006
Visiting Student at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA
10/2002 – 11/2008
Student of International Relations and Philosophy at the University of Tübingen, Germany
Current Projects
Science Policy Interaction with Rolf Lidskog (Örebro University, Sweden)
Completed Projects
NESNET – Nested Networks: Neue Formen der Governance von Forschung
Publications
2014
- Together with Beck, S. & Görg, C.: The Co-production of Scale and Power: The Case of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. doi: 10.1080/1523908X.2014.984668
- “Toward two Narratives of Knowledge.” Innovation: The European Journal
of Social Science Research. DOI: 10.1080/13511610.2014.943164. Full text
- Together with Beck S. et al.: “Climate change and the assessment of
expert knowledge: does the IPCC model need updating?” Bridges 40 (July),
1-7. Full text
- Together with Beck, S. et al: “Towards a reflexive turn in the
governance of global environmental expertise. The cases of the IPCC and
the IPBES.” GAIA 23 (2), 80-87. Full text
2012
- Together with Drupp, S. et al.: “Change from Below – student initiatives for universities in sustainable development.” In: Walter Leal: Sustainable Development at Universities: New Horizons. Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang, 733-742. Full text
- Together with Meisch, S.et al (ed.): Wissenschaft für Nachhaltige Entwicklung. Multiperspektivische Beiträge zu einer verantwortungsbewussten Wissenschaft. Marburg: Metropolis Verlag.
- Together with Meisch et. al: “Einleitung: Wissenschaft für Nachhaltige Entwicklung.” In: Meisch et. al (ed.): Wissenschaft für Nachhaltige Entwicklung. Multiperspektivische Beiträge zu einer verantwortungsbewussten Wissenschaft. Marburg: Metropolis Verlag, 9-26.
- Together with Roosen-Runge, F.: “Nachhaltigkeitswissenschaft – Die undisziplinierte Disziplin. Transdisziplinäre Herausforderungen Nachhaltiger Entwicklung.” In: Meisch et. al (ed.): Wissenschaft für Nachhaltige Entwicklung. Multiperspektivische Beiträge zu einer verantwortungsbewussten Wissenschaft. Marburg: Metropolis Verlag, 135–155.
2009
- Together with Roosen-Runge, F.; Löw Beer, D (ed.): Greening the University – Perspektiven für eine nachhaltige Hochschule. München: OEKOM.
- “In Räumen denken.” In: together with Roosen-Runge, F.; Löw Beer, D. (ed.): Greening the University – Perspektiven für eine nachhaltige Hochschule. München: OEKOM, 21-28.