Dr. Dominic Lenzi is a researcher within A-ID’s Programme on the Environment and a post-doctoral researcher in the working group Scientific Assessments, Ethics, and Public Policy (SEP) at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change. He is a philosopher working on ethical and political issues raised by climate change and the preservation of the global commons. Dominic’s current research focuses upon topics relating to resource rights and global justice, and the ethics of negative emissions. His other philosophical interests include topics in ethical philosophy such as the nature of the good life and the justification of moral values, along with associated topics in political philosophy and ancient Greek philosophy. He completed his PhD at the University of Melbourne in 2015.

Daniel Edward Callies is a Research Fellow and PhD candidate in philosophy at Goethe University Frankfurt and heads A-ID’s research cluster on “Energy and the Environment.” Previously, he was a Predoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School in the Belfer Center’s Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program (2016-2017), and the Bernheim Postdoctoral Fellow in Social Responsibility at the Université catholique de Louvain (2017). His research generally focuses on normative and applied ethics, global justice, and climate justice. His dissertation addressed moral and political concerns surrounding climate change — specifically, climate engineering technologies. Before coming to Europe, he studied philosophy at San Diego State University where he was awarded his BA in 2008 and his MA in 2012. When not engaged in research, he can be found surfing the many beaches on offer in Southern California.