Dr. Chris Höhne

Education and Academic Training

• 2022: PhD in Political Science (with distinction) at the Technical University of Darmstadt: "Norm glocalization: United Nations’ climate change norms and India"
• 2013: MA in Political Science and Economics at the University of Trier
• 2011: Exchange semester at the University of Colorado at Boulder
• 2009: "Certificat d’Études Politiques" after exchange year at the Institut d’Études Politiques (IEP) "Sciences Po" Bordeaux

Professional Experience

• Since 2024: Senior Researcher at Wuppertal Institute
• 2019 - 2024: Research associate and Post-Doc (since 2022) at the Otto-Suhr-Institute for Political Science, Free University of Berlin, DFG-Reinhart-Koselleck-Project "Transnorms"
• 2016 - 2019: Research associate at the Technical University of Darmstadt, DFG-Project "Carbon Governance Arrangements and the Nation-State"
• 2018: Guest researcher at the Centre for Policy Research (CPR), Neu-Delhi and at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mandi
• 2017: Guest researcher at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor and at the Bogor Agricultural University
• 2015 - 2016: Research associate at the University of Münster, DFG-Project "Carbon Governance Arrangements and the Nation-State"
• 2014 - 2015: Policy advisor at Thuringia's Ministry of Economic Affairs
• 2013: Intern at GIZ's Competence Center of Climate Change
• 2009 - 2011: Research assistant and tutor at the Department of Political Science, University of Trier
• 2009: Intern at the Embassy of France in Zambia 

Research Focus

• Global climate politics
• Inter- and transnational climate initiatives (REDD+, C40, ICLEI, CDP, JETP)
• Domestic climate politics, with particular focus on India and Indonesia
• Nationally Determined Contributions and national climate policies
• Just transition
• Climate change nexus to energy and land use
• International Relations theories (norms, governance, critical political economy, agency of the Global South)
• Methodology and methods (scientific realism, interviews, topic modeling)

Teaching

• 6 Master seminars on "Global Politics" at the Hertie School of Governance (Fall 2024, with Shubha Kamala Prasad and Jens Marquardt)
  Supervision of Master's Theses at Free University of Berlin (2022 - 2023)
• Master seminar "Global Climate Politics" at the Technical University of Darmstadt, summer term 2023
• Guest lectures at the Goethe-University Frankfurt, the Technical University of Darmstadt and at the University of Göttingen (2018 - 2022)
• Tutorials to the lecture "Introduction to International Relations" at the University of Trier (2009 - 2011)

Memberships

• Since 2024: Guest researcher at the Free University of Berlin
• 2023 - 2025: Co-coordinator of the "Decarbonization Working Group" of ESG's (Earth System Governance) Climate Governance Task Force
• 2021 - 2025: Associated researcher at the Technical University of Darmstadt
• German Political Science Association (DVPW)
• Earth System Governance (ESG) Research Fellow Network
• European International Studies Association (EISA)
• International Studies Association (ISA)

Reviewing Activities

• Peer-reviewed journals (selection): British Journal of Management, Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, Journal of International Relations and Development, npj Climate Action, The International Forestry Review
• Book proposals: Palgrave Macmillan