Welcome to the page of Prof. Dr. Angela Oels, full professor and chairholder “Political Science with a specialization in climate politics”?
?

Prof. Dr. Angela Oels was appointed to the newly established Center for Climate Resilience in April 2022. She is an internationally distinguished international relations scholar with much experience in trans- and interdisciplinary collaboration. Her research focus are the UN climate negotiations under the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement, which she studies from the perspective of climate governmentality studies (of which she is a co-founder). In particular, she investigates climate adaptation, climate resilience and the negotiations on loss and damage, including the contested topic of climate-induced mobility/ displacement. Secondly, Prof. Oels is interested in how digitalization needs to be governed to ensure that it contributes to sustainability transformations. She is hosting an international, interdisciplinary conference on this topic in September 2023 at Augsburg University. Finally, Prof. Oels studies from the perspective of democratic theory how stakeholder participation processes in climate adaptation can be designed to initiate social change and thus contribute to desirable climate futures.

Angela Oels received her PhD from the University of East Anglia (UK) and her habilitation from the University of Hamburg on “The discursive construction of climate change as a security issue”. Her past positions include a postdoc position at the climate excellence cluster CliSAP at the University of Hamburg, a Humboldt Visiting Professorship at Lund University in Sweden, and a Junior Professorship at the Open University of the Netherlands.