Univ. Prof. Mag. Dr. Alice Vadrot
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Univ. Prof. Mag. Dr. Alice Vadrot
Deputy Head of Department
Professor for International Relations and the Environment
Contact
International Politics and Environment
ERC Project TwinPolitics
EU project MARCO-BOLO
Kolingasse 14-16/5th Floor, Room 5.08
1090 Vienna
T: +43-1-4277-494 55
E-Mail: alice.vadrot@univie.ac.at
Homepages: www.maripoldata.eu, www.twinpolitics.eu, www.marcobolo-project.eu
Bluesky: @alicevadrot.bsky.social
LinkedIn: Alice Vadrot
- Project leader of the ERC research project TwinPolitics (2024-2029)
- Project leader of the ERC research project MARIPOLDATA (2018-2024)
- Consortium member of the EU project MARCO-BOLO
- Member of the Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Science and Policy at the University of Cambridge
- Research Fellow at the Earth System Governance Research Platform (Co-lead of Ocean Taskforce)
- EU Board Member of the EU Mission Restore our Oceans and Waters
- Member of the Management Board of the Environment and Climate Hub of the University of Vienna
Office hour
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Teaching
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Short biography
• Since March 2025: Professor of International Relations and Environment
• 2021-2025: Associate Professor of International Relations and Environment
• 2024-2029: PI ERC Consolidator Grant - TwinPolitics (www.twinpolitics.eu)
• 2022-2026: Part of EU Project MARCO-BOLO (https://marcobolo-project.eu/)
• 2020-2024: Part of DIGIGOV research platform (https://digigov.univie.ac.at/)
• 2018-2024: PI ERC Starting Grant - MARIPOLDATA (www.maripoldata.eu)
• 2017-2018: Senior Post-Doc at the Department of Political Science, University of Vienna
• Since 2015: Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Science and Policy, University of Cambridge (UK)
• 2015-2018: Erwin Schrödinger Fellow of the Austrian Science Fund FWF (project number: J-3704)
• 2014: Marshall Memorial Fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF)
• 2013: PhD thesis on the establishment of the World Biodiversity Council IPBES (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services)2012-2018: External lecturer at the Institute of Political Science2012: Scholarship holder of the University of Vienna (doctoral scholarship)
• 2010-2014: Research Fellow at the Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Social Sciences (ICCR), Vienna, Austria.
• 2008-2009: Visiting research fellow at the Université Panthéon Sorbonne (Paris/France)
• 2005-2008: Studies of Political Science, Philosophy and Slavic Studies at the University of Vienna
Research interests
• International environmental policy
• Multilateral negotiations and environmental diplomacy
• Biodiversity policy
• Interface between science and politics
• International marine conservation
Selected bibliography
Books and articles in edited volumes
- Haller, Max, Prandner, Dimitri, Vadrot, Alice (2025). Die Sprache(n) der Wissenschaft: eine empirische Studie unter Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern in Österreich vor dem Hintergrund sprach- und kommunikationswissenschaftlicher Befunde. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
- Hughes, Hannah and Vadrot, Alice B. M. (eds.). (2023). Conducting Research on Global Environmental Agreement-Making. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Vadrot, Alice B. M. (2020). Ocean Protection. In: J.-F. Morin and A. Orsini. (eds.), Essential Concepts of Global Environmental Governance. Abingdon: Routledge. Second edition.
- Vadrot, Alice B. M. (2022). Experts. Scientific knowledge for ocean protection. In: Paul G. Harris (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Marine Governance and Global Environmental Change. London: Routledge.
- Vadrot, Alice B. M. (2014). The Politics of Knowledge and Global Biodiversity. London: Routledge.
Journal articles
- Allan, Jen Iris, Borthakur, Anwesha, Kinninburgh, Fiona, Petersmann, Moritz, Balayannis, Angeliki, Barry, Andrew, Beck, Silke, Elliott, Kevin, Forsyth, Tim, Hardon, Anita, Hughes, Hannah, Macnaghten, Philip, Selin, Henrik, Sun, Yixian, Vadrot, Alice (2025). Rethinking the science-policy interface for chemicals, waste, and pollution: Challenging core assumptions. Global Environmental Change 92: 102995.
- Vadrot, Alice B. M., Langlet, Arne, Dunshirn, Paul, Fellinger, Simon, Ruiz-Rodríguez, Silvia C., Tessnow-von Wysocki, Ina (2024). Zooming In on Agreement-Making: Tracing the BBNJ Negotiations with the MARIPOLDATAbase. Global Environmental Politics 24(4): 152–178.
- Vadrot, Alice B.M. and Wanneau, Krystel (2024). The social science side of marine biodiversity monitoring. ICES Journal of Marine Science 81(5): 864–876.
- Langlet, Arne and Vadrot, Alice B. M. (2024). Expert Authority Politics in the Marine Biodiversity Complex. Global Environmental Politics 24(2): 1–24.
- Vadrot, Alice B. M. and Ruiz-Rodríguez, Silvia C. (2022). Digital Multilateralism in Practice: Extending Critical Policy Ethnography to Digital Negotiation Sites. International Studies Quarterly 66(3).
- Vadrot, Alice B. M., Langlet, Arne, Tessnow-von Wysocki, Ina (2022). Who owns marine biodiversity? Contesting the world order through the `common heritage of humankind´ principle. Environmental Politics 31(2): 226–250.
- Vadrot, Alice B.M., Langlet, Arne, Tessnow-von Wysocki, Ina, Tolochko, Petro, Brogat, Emmanuelle, and Ruiz-Rodríguez, Silvia C. (2021). Marine Biodiversity Negotiations During COVID-19: A New Role for Digital Diplomacy?. Global Environmental Politics 21(3): 169–186.
- Tolochko, Petro and Vadrot, Alice B. M. (2021). The usual suspects? Distribution of collaboration capital in marine biodiversity research. Marine Policy 124: 104318.
- Vadrot, Alice B. M. (2020). Multilateralism as a ‘site’ of struggle over environmental knowledge: the North-South divide. Critical Policy Studies 14(2): 233–245.
- Vadrot, Alice B. M. (2020). Building authority and relevance in the early history of IPBES. Environmental Science & Policy 113: 14–20.
- Hughes, H. and Vadrot, Alice B. M. (2019). Weighting the world: IPBES and the Struggle over Biocultural Diversity. Global Environmental Politics 19(2): 14–37.
Commentaries in "Nature & Science"
- Vadrot, Alice B. M. (2024). The United States, as a marine superpower, must ratify the high seas biodiversity treaty now. Nature 635(8040): 815–815.
- Vadrot, Alice B. M., Jetzkowitz, Jens, and Stringer, Lindsay C. (2016). IPBES Disciplinary Gaps Still Gaping. Nature 530: 160.
- Hulme, M., Mahony, M., Beck, S., Görg, C., Hansjürgens, B., Hauck, J., Nesshöver, C., Paulsch, A., Vandewalle, M., Wittmer, H., Böschen, S., Bridgewater, P., Chimère Diaw, M., Fabre, P., Figueroa, A., Heong, K. L., Korn, H., Leemans, R., Lövbrand, E., Hamid, M. N., Monfreda, C., Pielke, Jr.R., Settele, J.,Winter, M., Vadrot, A. B. M., van den Hove, S., van der Sluijs, J.P. (2011). Science-Policy Interface: Beyond Assessments. Science 333(6043): 697–698.