Valeria Zambianchi

Valeria is pursuing a joint PhD degree at KU Leuven (Faculty of Social Sciences) and Utrecht University (Faculty of Geosciences, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development). She is affiliated with the ERC-funded PolyCarbon Project led by Prof. Katja Biedenkopf.

Together with Ksenia Anisimova, Milena Niesen and Chris Höhne, Valeria co-coordinates the ESG Working Group on Decarbonization.

Valeria studies the socio-institutional landscapes affecting climate change mitigation. She is particularly interested in the history, policy interactions, and effects across climate policyscapes, which she researches via the embedded case study of electricity generation in the United Kingdom (1956-today). Specifically, she aims to understand how the structure and the dynamics within the UK climate policyscapes affect the uptake of ready-to-deploy renewables with a spatial-institutional lens. Valeria's PhD therein examines various forms of policy interactions within climate policyscapes and their effects on the uptake of solar PV and onshore wind in England and of offshore wind in the North Sea.