People
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Associate ProfessorDirector, Center for Environment and SecurityDr. Antypas joined CEU in 2000. His research interest includeGlobal environmental governance, Environmental policy change and transformation, Human rights and the environment and Science-policy studies. Prior to joining CEU, he worked for Civic Education Project as a visiting professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Rezekne in Latvia and served as a consultant to UNDP, UNEP, the US Forest Service, the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe.
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ProfessorAcademic Secretary and Research DirectorAleh Cherp's research interest include energy security and transitions to sustainable energy systems as well as strategic environmental assessment. He is the Rapporteur of the Advisory Working Group on the Environment of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Commission and a Coordinating Lead Analyst (Energy Security) in the Global Energy Assessment.
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Associate ProfessorHead of DepartmentAndreas Goldthau is Head of the Department of Public Policy. Prior to joining CEU, he worked as a Transatlantic PostDoc Fellow in International Relations and Security with the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, the RAND Corporation and the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), as well as a Research Fellow with the Institute for East European Studies at Freie University of Berlin. He is also a Fellow with the Global Public Policy Institute (Berlin/ Geneva) and and an Adjunct Professor with Johns Hopkins University’s MSc in Energy Policy and Climate.
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PhD studentI studied at CEU in 2004-2005 and now I joined it again for the PhD with focus on climate change and energy efficiency.
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PhD CandidateYear of enrollment: 2009/2010Jessica Jewell is a PhD candidate at Central European University where her research focuses on energy security. She works in the Energy and Transitions to New Technologies Programs at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis where she provides analytical support for the UN Secretary’s-General’s Sustainable Energy for All initiative and researches the relationship between national energy policies and global energy goals.
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PhD studentYear of enrollment: 2010/2011Johan Lilliestam is a PhD student at the CEU. He writes his thesis about energy security in a future climate-friendly European power system partly based on imports of renewable electricity from North Africa. Mr. Lilliestam's wider research interest is European energy and climate policy, with a special focus on imports of renewable electricity from North Africa. He currently works at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Potsdam, Germany, and at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria. Johan Lilliestam holds a Master of Science degree in Environmental Sciences from Göteborg University, Sweden, and a Master of Arts degree in Environmental Management from Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
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ProfessorPh.D. (Moscow State University): Head of Department, Director of UNEP GEO Collaborating Center: State of the environment and pollution problems in the countries of the region; environmental policy; global environmental issues, sources of environmental information.
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PhD student, Teaching AssistantAndrej Nosko, PhD student at Political Science Department, researches coping strategies of small, open, transitional economies of Central Europe with their energy import dependence. His theoretical focus is on issues of energy, security, and government-corporate relations. Andrej's experience developed while living in 6 countries, and besides academia, working in private, NGO as well as governmental sectors. Before returning to CEU, Andrej worked for the European Commission in Brussels in the field of internal security.
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Senior AnalystYear of enrollment: 2003/2004Climate Policy Initiative (CPI), German Institute of Economic Research (DIW) Berlin, Germany; Lead Author of the Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)which has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace, 2007; Lead Analyst of the forthcoming Global Energy Assessment (GEA), the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
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ProfessorProfessor Nick Sitter's research interests include comparative European public policy, regulation, party systems, and Euroscepticism. Recent publications include Understanding Public Management (Sage 2008) and Europe’s Nascent State (Gyldendal 2006). He has a PhD from the LSE.
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ProfessorDirector, Center for Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Policies (3CSEP)Ph.D. (UC Berkeley and UCLA), MSc (ELTE, Budapest): Energy efficiency and renewable energy sources; energy policies for economies in transition; CO2 emission mitigation; climate change policy; EU enlargement and sustainable energy policy.
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PhD CandidateHaving obtained an MA in Political Sciences and International Relations (KU Leuven) and an MA in Nationalism Studies (CEU), in 2009 turned his attention to Environmental Studies. His research focuses on issues of legitimacy, social cohesion and mobilisation in environmental politics. In particular, he is concentrating on how these issues play in U.S. environmental Climate Change and Energy political discourse.
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Associate ProfessorDirector, Center for Network ScienceOn leave Winter-Spring 2012