Lukas Slothuus

I research the politics and political economy of fossil fuels as well as broader climate and energy politics.

I work on the UKRI-funded project "SUS-POL: Supply-side policies for fossil fuels" led by Professor Peter Newell. The project researches the political dynamics of cutting the production of fossil fuels, how to transform society to a fossil-free world, as well as which processes of social transformation are necessary for climate justice.

I am also a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Previously I was a Fellow at LSE, teaching the interdisciplinary LSE100 on the climate crisis and on digital technologies. I have an ESRC-funded PhD in Politics from the University of Edinburgh entitled The Emancipatory Imperative: A Critical Theory of Social Transformation. During the PhD, I was a Visiting Graduate Student at Cornell University and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO).