The Phoenix Team

The project draws on research in 9 countries (Sweden, Austria, Turkey, Iraq, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile and South Africa) and 4 regions (Europe, Middle East, South Africa and South America) in order to maximize the diversity of Global Changes we examine and to analyze the Global Scale of social tipping points.

Project coordinators

Assistant professor, Özyegin University
susan.rottmann@ozyegin.edu.tr

Expertise in Anthropology, migration, transnationalism, gender, ethnicity, film, human rights, religion and politics

Susan Beth Rottmann

Project coordinator, Uppsala University
soner.barthoma@crs.uu.se

Expertise in Anthropology, migration, transnationalism, gender, ethnicity, film, human rights, religion and politics

Soner Barthoma

A.Onver Cetrez

Project coordinator, Uppsala University
onver.cetrez@teol.uu.se

Expertise in Psychology of religion, Cultural psychology, migration, Vulnurable immigrant groups, Youth and marginality

Partner Researchers

Ali Kharrazi

Title: Senior Research Scholar
E-mail: kharrazi@iiasa.ac.at

Primary Organization: IIASA

Research Area (s): Environmental sciences, Climatology, Physical sciences not elsewhere classified, Statistical modelling, Information modelling

Title: Assoc. Professor
E-mail: isabelbortagaray@gmail.com

Primary Organization: Universidad de la Republica Uruguay

Research Area (s): Sociology, Public policy, Sustainable development, Science, technology and innovation policy

Isabel Bortagaray

Chen Deliang

Title: Professor
E-mail: deliang@gvc.gu.se

Primary Organization: University of Gothenburg

Research Area (s): Earth science, Environmental sciences, Climatology

Julia Curio

Title: Dr.
E-mail: julia.curio@gu.se

Primary Organization: University of Gothenburg

Research Area (s): Earth science, Environmental sciences, Climatology, Water cycle, Modelling

Maria Jose Lubertino Beltran

Title: Dr.
E-mail: mariajoselubertinob@gmail.com

Primary Organization: Asociación Ciudadana por los Derechos Humanos

Research Area (s): Environmental sciences, Human Rights, Gender studies, Law, Climate Policies

Rasigan Maharajh

Title: Dr.
E-mail: maharajhr@tut.ac.za

Primary Organization: Institute for Economic Research on Innovation

Research Area (s): Others in technology, Political economics, Public policy

Sarah Louise Nash

Title: Dr.
E-mail: sarah.nash@donau-uni.ac.at

Primary Organization: Universität für Weiterbildung Krems

Research Area (s): Climatology, Sustainability Science, Climate Policy

Graciela Rodriguez

Title: Director
E-mail: graciela@equit.org.br

Primary Organization: EQUIT

Research Area (s): Gender studies, Social policy, Health and welfare

N. Ela Gökalp Aras

Title: Dr., Senior Researcher
E-mail: ela.gokalparas@sri.org.tr

Primary Organization: Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul (SRII)

Research Area (s): European integration, comparative migration and asylum policy, border management, climate change and development, research and project management

Bursa Soylemez-Karakoc

Title: Assist. Professor
E-mail: busrasoylemezkarakoc@gmail.com

Primary Organization: Adana Alparslan Türkeş Science and Technology University

Research Area (s): International Political Economy, Comparative Political Economy, Political Economy of Development, Financial Globalization, Financial Crises, Corruption, Southeast Asian Politics

İnci Aksu Kargın

Title: Assist. Professor
E-mail: inci.kargin@usak.edu.tr

Primary Organization: Uşak University

Research Area (s): migration, refugee studies, Middle Eastern studies, gender studies

Mesut Karakoc

Title: Assist. Professor
E-mail: mkarakoc@atu.edu.tr

Primary Organization: Adana Alparslan Türkeş Science and Technology University

Research Area (s): Urban affairs, Policy analysis, Public and nonprofit administration, US State and Local Government, Environmental policy and politics, Policymaking, Research methods, cyber security policy and governance, Technology and society relations

Liliana Acero

Title: Professor and principal researcher INCT/PPED/UFRJ PhD
E-mail: lilianaacero2009@gmail.com

Primary Organization: Academic Director Fundación Cuerpo y Energía. Teoría y Métodos Neoreichianos (FCE)

Research Area (s): social impacts of new technologies, public policies, gender studies and development, health and mental health, domestic groups and the labour process/market new reproductive technologies and regenerative medicine

Claudia Dides

Title: Professor
E-mail: claudiadidescastillo@gmail.com

Primary Organization: Fundación Cuerpo y Energía: Teoría y Métodos Neoreichianos (FCE), Universidad de Santiago, Universidad de La Frontera

Research Area (s): gender and public policies, gender mainstreaming, sexual and reproductive health and rights, abortion, sex education.

Pablo Zuleta

Title: Ph.D in Psychology
E-mail: pablozuletapastor@gmail.com

Primary Organization: Fundación Cuerpo y Energía: Teoría y Métodos Neoreichianos and Universidad Bernardo O´Higgins

Research Area (s): Social psychology, Gender studies, Health and welfare

Rafael de Brito Dias

Title: Assoc.Professor
E-mail: rbdias@unicamp.br

Primary Organization: UNICAMP

Research Area (s): technologies for social inclusion and resilience; science, technology and power; technology and democracy; comparative science and technology policy. 

Carla Aguas

Title: Dr.
E-mail: caguas@unicamp.br

Primary Organization: UNICAMP

Research Area (s):   solidarity networks, human/nature relations and inter-epistemic dialogue, exploring the connections between science and ancestral knowledge

Qian Zhang

Title: PhD in Human Geography
E-mail: qian.zhang@sh.se

Primary Organization: Södertörn University

Research Area (s):  Migration, Environmental Governance, Political Ecology, Digital Geography

Ali Can Özkan

Title: Pre. Doc. Researcher
E-mail: cancemozkan@gmail.com

Primary Organization: Middle East Technical University

Research Area (s):   border management, migration, securitization, climate refugees, comparative politics

ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS

Ayhan Kaya

Prof., Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey

Ruth M. Shortall

PhD, European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), Petten, Netherlands