CLIMA Researcher Ana Stella Ebbersmeyer Awarded Carlsberg Foundation Internationalisation Fellowship

The Centre for Climate Change Law and Governance (CLIMA) at the University of Copenhagen is thrilled to announce that Dr. Ana Stella Ebbersmeyer has been awarded a 3-year Internationalisation Fellowship (DKK 2,672,880) from the Carlsberg Foundation. This highly competitive fellowship supports exceptional early-career researchers from Denmark in conducting postdoctoral research at leading international institutions and fosters their reintegration into the Danish research environment.

Dr. Ebbersmeyer’s fellowship will support her project, ‘Regulating the Environmental Impacts of Arctic Cruise Ship Tourism through the Law-Science Interface (EMBARC)’, to be conducted under the joint supervision of Associate Professor Beatriz Martinez Romera at the University of Copenhagen, and Professor Alexander Proelss at the University of Hamburg.

EMBARC addresses a growing and understudied challenge in Arctic law and governance: the environmental and climate impacts of cruise ship tourism in the region. At the heart of the project lies the law-science interface, i.e. how scientific knowledge about Arctic climate risks and can be better integrated into legal and regulatory frameworks. Stella’s research will combine doctrinal legal analysis with empirical methods, including semi-structured interviews with key regulatory state and non-state actors involved in the regulation of Arctic cruise ship tourism.

By illuminating the interactions between science and law in shaping regulatory responses to cruise tourism, EMBARC seeks to inform more robust and inclusive science-based legal outcomes. The project’s outcomes will be of significant value to researchers, policymakers, industry stakeholders, indigenous communities, and NGOs seeking to address the accelerating pressures on the Arctic’s fragile ecosystems.

Dr. Ebbersmeyer’s achievement highlights CLIMA’s ongoing dedication to fostering early-career research talent and advancing interdisciplinary approaches to pressing climate challenges.

To learn more about EMBARC, click here.

About the Carlsberg Foundation Internationalisation Fellowships

Through the Internationalisation Fellowships, the Carlsberg Foundation wishes to promote internationalisation of talented young researchers from Denmark by enabling postdoctoral research at one or two leading international research institutions and facilitating their reintegration into the Danish research environment.

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