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Dr. Philippe Forêt is a senior geographer with an expertise on climate and civilization and a wide range of publications in environmental studies, on modernity in Asia, and in the history of the geosciences. Since 2013, Philippe has co-directed the Environmental Humanities Research Group at the Swiss Academic Society for Environmental Research and Ecology (SAGUF, Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences). At the University of Basel, he leads with Prof. Max Bergman the Social Transitions Research Group. At the University of Zurich, he is a research associate in Prof. Marc Hall’s Environmental History Research Group. Philippe is one of the founding members of the BRIDGES UNESCO MOST Sustainability Science Coalition, where he represents “Environmental Humanities Switzerland.” He has received awards from institutions in ten different countries, from the Swiss National Science Foundation to Harvard (Dumbarton Oaks). The Institute of Advanced Studies of Nantes, the Swedish Collegium in Uppsala, and the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich have elected him Fellow. His previous affiliations include the Universities of Stockholm and St. Gallen, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Zurich.
| 2020 - present | Co-Director, Social Transitions Research Group, Department of Social Sciences, University of Basel |
| 2019 - present | Member, BRIDGES Sustainability Science Coalition (now part of the UNESCO Management of Social Transformations program) |
| 2017 - present | Member of the Society of Fellows, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany |
| 2015 - 2018 | Professor, Environmental History, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan |
| 2014 - present | Research Associate, Environmental History Research Group, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich |
| 2013 - present | Co-Director, Environmental Humanities Research Group, Swiss Academic Society for Environmental Research and Ecology, Swiss Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| 2012 - 2014 | Senior Research Fellow, Chair of Chinese Studies, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, St. Gallen University, Switzerland |
| 2009 - 2012 | Visiting Professor, Asian studies, University of Stockholm |
| 2008 - 2009 | Associate Professor, Chinese studies, University of Nottingham |
| 2003 | Certificate of Advanced Studies in higher education, EPF Lausanne |
| 2002 - 2007 | Researcher, Cartography and geoinformation, ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| 1997 - 2001 | Assistant Professor, Geography, University of Oklahoma, USA |
| 1995 - 1998 | Assistant Professor, Asian studies, University of Texas, USA |
| 1992 | Ph.D. in Geography, Division of the Social Sciences, University of Chicago, Illinois, USA |
