Lucas Gabriel Christel

UNSAM / CONICET

Based in

Argentina
South America

Lucas G. Christel holds a PhD in Political Science and a Master in Public Policy and Development Management from the Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM). He is currently the Director of South Cone and Brazil Regional Center of the The Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS), Assistant Researcher at CONICET, Director of the Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science at UNSAM and Adjunct Professor at the School of Politics and Government (UNSAM).

In his current research, he analyzes socio-technical controversies around the risks of extractive industries and explores how to improve institutional and democratic practices to resolve these controversies. He is interested in collective action dynamics, environmental politics, and climate change and biodiversity issues. He has carried out research stays at The Institute for Advanced Study – IAS- (Princeton), Watson Institute (Brown University) and British Columbia University (UBC). He has also been invited to collaborate with the Biodiversity Revisited project, an initiative of the Luc Hoffman Institute (Gland, Switzerland) in collaboration with several global universities and environmental non-governmental organizations. He has been invited to teach postgraduate courses at CLACSO, Universidad Nacional de Rosario (UNR), NYU Buenos Aires and Hradec Kralové University (Czech Republic).