Prof. Dr. Andra-Ioana Horcea-Milcu

I am a sustainability scientist and thinker. I have a background in exploring social-ecological systems and experience in place-based transdisciplinary research for sustainability transformation. I am interested in leveraging the transformative potential of socially engaged knowledge co-creation in real-world contexts. My research journey allowed me to develop a focus on the role of values as leverage points, as a purpose, as something that can be consciously engaged with, activated, and mobilized for the sake of sustainability. I stand for kindness.

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• (Transformative) sustainability science
• Transdisciplinary knowledge co-creation in sustainability science
• Values as a lever for sustainability transformation
• Inner dimensions of sustainability transformation: values and cultures

• 2023: Professor affiliated with Kassel Institute for Sustainability (one of the four co-directors) and with the Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies leading the unit of Cultures of Sustainability

• 2022-2023: Fellow, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam

  2020-2022: Fellow, Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship hosted by Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca

  2019-2020: Postdoctoral researcher at Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS), Helsinki

  2015-2019: Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Ethics and Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research, Leuphana University of Lueneburg, Lueneburg

  2011-2015: PhD thesis: „The relationship between people and nature in traditional rural landscapes: a case study from Southern Transylvania”. Leuphana University of Lueneburg, Lueneburg

  2008-2010: MA Sciences et gestion de l'environnement, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels

  2004-2008: License diploma Systems ecology and sustainable development (4 years), University of Bucharest, Bucharest

• Cost Action CA22156 Transformations International Experience and Research Network for Sustainable Futures (TransformERS)
• Editor of the Sustainability Science Journal
• Lead author of three assessments of the interdisciplinary Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES): IPBES Global Assessment (2016-2019), IPBES Values Assessment (2018-2022), IPBES Transformative Change Assessment (2022-)