Friederike Hartz

Friederike Hartz is a PhD candidate in Geography at the University of Cambridge, supervised by Prof. Mike Hulme. She is affiliated with the Department of Geography and the Geographies of Knowledge research group. Her work focuses on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), climate science-policy interfaces, and questions of responsibility in addressing climate change impacts. She holds advanced degrees from the University of Edinburgh (MSc Environmental Sustainability), Sciences Po Paris/LSE (Dual Master’s in International Affairs), and Freie Universität Berlin (BA Political Science).

Her research explores how IPCC participants navigate responsibilities across science production, assessment, communication, and policy implementation. Key areas include loss and damage (L&D) from climate change, institutional dynamics of climate governance, and ethical dimensions of climate science. Friederike has contributed to over 20 peer-reviewed publications and presented at major conferences including the Royal Geographical Society and American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting.

She has received the Best Dissertation Prize from the University of Edinburgh (2020) and is funded by the Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership and Pembroke College. Friederike has also served as a research assistant on the ERC-funded project 'The Politics of Climate Change Loss & Damage' at UCL, and has participated in UNFCCC COPs as part of the Cambridge delegation.

Teaching activities include leading seminars on climate science-policy interfaces, qualitative methods, and climate diplomacy at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her work bridges academic research with policy engagement through contributions to platforms like Carbon Brief and Cambridge Zero.