Emerging digital twin technology holds promise in future solutions on governance and the mitigation of urgent environmental challenges. Digital twins are a method for analysing complex systems and developing “what-if” scenarios. The central objective of TwinPolitics is to investigate the development of digital twins as a (geo)political phenomenon that could permanently transform the interface between science and politics.
Embedded into a multidisciplinary team, the doctoral students will collaborate and engage with different social science methods to study the role of digital twins in global environmental agreement-making. This includes fieldwork at negotiations related to marine biodiversity, plastic pollution, and deep-seabed mining. The doctoral students are expected to write a doctoral thesis in the rapidly emerging area of marine-policy, politics, and data.
Application deadline: 24th July 2024
