Federica Genovese is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the Department of Government at the University of Essex. She is also the lead of the Quantitative Social Science section of the Eastern Academic Research Consortium between University of East Anglia, University of Essex and University of Kent. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from University of Konstanz in 2013, and spent one year as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University before moving to Essex.
Federica is interested in the global, cross-national and domestic politics of environmental problems. In the past she has studied cross-country positions on global climate cooperation, the industrial politics of climate change mitigation, and public opinion on green policies. She uses a wide range of research methodologies. She has published her work in outlets such as Environmental Politics, British Journal of Political Science and International Studies Quarterly. At Essex, Federica teaches classes on environmental politics and research methods.
In her research, Federica focuses on topics such as the politics of the 2015 Paris Agreement pledges and the strategic use of fairness at international climate change negotiations. She is also interested in business positions on policies such as the EU Emission Trading Scheme and the implications of domestic institutional tensions on countries’ positions at the UNFCCC.