Chelsea Kaandorp is a postdoctoral researcher at the Anthropocene Lab. In her work, she strives to develop and share knowledge on climate change mitigation strategies for improving water resource management and environmental justice. She does so by combining perspectives from different research fields.

In 2016, she obtained her master’s degree in Theoretical Physics from the University of Cambridge, followed by a master’s degree in Cultural Anthropology from Utrecht University in 2018. For her master’s thesis in Cultural Anthropology, she performed an ethnographic study on how notions of global climate change and local deforestation in the Kilimanjaro region in Tanzania connect to the hydrosocial cycle.

In her PhD research, she studied strategies for the decarbonisation of the built environment in her hometown, the city of Amsterdam, from the perspectives of the Water-Energy Nexus, committed emissions, energy justice and the urban commons.