Carolien Jacobs

Climares Research coordinator, WP 8 co-lead

Dr. Carolien Jacobs is research coordinator of Climares, and co-leads WP 8: Displaced Populations' Weather- and Climate-related Knowledge ∞ Action Networks.

Carolien is Assistant Professor at the Van Vollenhoven Institute, Leiden University. She is a socio-legal, qualitative oriented scholar with an interest in interdisciplinary research. She teaches various courses in the field of Law and Society and regularly supervises Bachelor, Master, and PhD theses. Her research covers the broad fields of law, governance and international development, especially in Africa and in conflict-affected countries. Migration in the contexts of conflict and of climate change are at the core of her research interests, as reflected in her long-term research agenda on internal displacement in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in collaboration with a team of Congolese research partners.