Miranda Boettcher

Miranda Boettcher

Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam & Freie University Berlin

Miranda Boettcher studied Political Science with a focus on International Environmental Politics, and Linguistics at the Ruperto Carola University of Heidelberg. In her Master Thesis she combined her two subjects of study, developing a discourse analytical framework to assess the social construction and legitimization of research and governance in emerging technology fields, using Climate Engineering as a case-study.

From 2010 – 2012 she worked in the International Relations Department at the University of Heidelberg as a Teaching and Research Assistant. At the same time she taught at the F&U Academy in Heidelberg.Following a year off travelling South America, she worked as an Investigator for the Mintz Group in San Francisco in 2014. Subsequently she was employed until the end of 2015 as a Research Analyst by the Berlin-based consultancy firm Foresight Intelligence.

Miranda Boettcher has been a Research Associate at the IASS since November 2015, where, as part of her PhD project, she assesses the development of emerging technology governance discourses in international scientific, public and political spheres.

Web tools and Projects we developed

  • Open-NEM

    The live tracker of the Australian electricity market.

  • Paris Equity Check

    This website is based on a Nature Climate Change study that compares Nationally Determined Contributions with equitable national emissions trajectories in line with the five categories of equity outlined by the IPCC.

  • liveMAGICC Climate Model

    Run one of the most popular reduced-complexity climate carbon cycle models online. Used by IPCC, UNEP GAP reports and numerous scientific publications.

  • NDC & INDC Factsheets

    Check out our analysis of all the post-2020 targets that countries announced under the Paris Agreement.