Dhanasree Jayaram
Dr. Dhanasree Jayaram is a Senior Assistant Professor, Department of Geopolitics and International Relations, Manipal Institute of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, and Co-coordinator, Centre for Climate Studies, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), India. She is also a Research Fellow and Member, Scientific Steering Committee, Earth System Governance Project; Member, Climate Security Expert Network; Research Fellow, Centre for Public Policy Research (India); Non-resident Fellow, Finnish Institute of International Affairs; Visiting Fellow, Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (India); and Associate, Network for Education and Research on Peace and Sustainability (Hiroshima University). She was a Research Fellow at Centre Marc Bloch and Guest Researcher at Freie Universität, Berlin – under the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s International Climate Protection Fellowship in 2022-2023. She pursued a visiting fellowship (Erasmus Mundus) at Leiden University, the Netherlands in 2014-15; and a postdoctoral fellowship at University of Lausanne, Switzerland, under the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship in 2018-19.Her areas of research include environmental and climate security; climate diplomacy; environmental geopolitics in Southern Asia, Indo-Pacific, and polar regions; gender and climate governance; and geopolitical/security implications of solar geoengineering. She is the author of Climate Diplomacy and Emerging Economies: India as a Case Study (2021) and has published in journals such as Third World Quarterly, Politics and Governance, Futures, Oxford Open Energy, Contemporary Security Policy, Global Environmental Politics, Contemporary South Asia, Nature Sustainability, Transnational Environmental Law, and International Politics.