Simona Capisani

Professor of Political & Environmental Philosophy

Dr. Simona Capisani is an Associate Professor of political and environmental philosophy at Durham University in the UK. Her area of research expertise is environmental politics and governance. In her work, she focuses on justice-based considerations and the uneven impacts of climate change and biodiversity loss on (both human and non-human) communities. In particular, she examines the dynamics of governance institutions and interlocking systems of structural inequality, and she develops evaluative frameworks for assessing and driving institutional change to better address pressing environmental and social challenges. She specializes in issues such as climate-induced (im)mobilities, biodiversity and climate governance synergies, geoengineering governance, and the political economy of ecological crisis. Previously, she was a researcher at Princeton University for the Climate Futures Initiative in Science, Values, and Policy and a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University. She earned her PhD from the University of California, Irvine, and holds an MA from San Francisco State University.