Christian Kull

Current

• Eva Dulon (2026-2031) (UNIL Assistantship)
• Rija Raveloson (2025-2028) Patrimonialisation formelle et patrimoine de l’imaginaire : Les systèmes d’irrigation traditionnels des montagnes du Vakinankaratra (Swiss Excellence Scholarship)
• Víctor Fernández García SNIS project (2022-2024) “Fire regimes and ecosystem services in African biodiversity hotspots” SNSF project (2026-2029) “Fire conflict in protected area transitions: identification, understanding and solutions” (blog posts: bushfire opinions / remote sensing of Madagascar wildfires)
• Stephanie Mansourian (2023-2027) Velux Stiftung project “The governance of tree planting and forest restoration: whose decisions, what norms, and what outcomes?” (Stephanie’s consultancy website) (blog posts: tenure and forest restoration / governance review / people in restoration / restoration for whom?)
• Antsa Randrianarivelo (2024-2027) Les dynamiques des acteurs et des institutions dans la gouvernance du reboisement et de la restauration des paysages forestiers à Madagascar (based at University of Antananarivo, dir. Zo Hasina Rabemananjara, co-dir. C. Kull)
• Manambina Soamampiandra (2024-2027) Aspects fonciers de la gouvernance du reboisement et de la restauration des paysages forestiers (based at University of Antananarivo, dir. Bruno Ramamonjisoa, co-dir. C. Kull)

Past

• Andrea Mathez (PhD, 2026) Crafting and cultivating interstices: an embodied inquiry into alternative agricultures in Morocco and Switzerland (UNIL Assistantship)
• anon (PhD, 2026) The Paradox of Just Transitions: Rare Earth Mining in Civil War (Swiss Excellence Doctoral Scholarship)
• Chanelle Adams (PhD, 2025) Volatility: Living with Ravintsara on Madagascar’s Opportunistic Frontier (UNIL Assistantship) Now at Max Planck Institute for History of Science (profile)
• Zali Fung (2024-2025) Swiss Excellence Postdoc Scholarship. Now at ETH-Zurich (profile).
• Jorge Llopis (2023-2024) SNSF Postdoc Return Grant. Now at Autonomous University of Barcelona (profile)
• Manoa Rajaonarivelo (2023) Swiss Excellence Postdoctoral Scholarship
• Astrid Luna Oppliger Uribe (PhD, 2023) Production, circulation and application of scientific knowledge: forest hydrology and policy-making in Chile (BECAS Chile scholarship)
• Zoe Ginter (PhD, 2023) Géographie sociale et historique du Robinia pseudoacacia dans le sud-ouest (based at U. Bordeaux-Montaigne and IRSTEA, dir. Baptiste Hautdidier, co-dir C. Kull) Now Maître de conférences, Univ Orléans
• Nguyen Thi Hai Van (PhD, 2021) The politics of forest transition in the contemporary Vietnamese Uplands: Case study in A Luoi, Thua Thien Hue province, Central Vietnam (SNF doctoral student, r4d program, Chercheuse FNS senior 2022-2023), Fieldtrip blog. Now at Wyss Academy, University of Bern (profile)
• David Amuzu (PhD, 2021) Private sector certification programmes and socio-ecological changes in the cocoa landscapes of Ghana: A political ecology study (Swiss Excellence Doctoral Scholarship, co-supervision B Neimark)
• Ross Shackleton (2017-2021) Swiss Excellence Post-doc Scholarship / Maître assistant suppléant, now at WSL (profile) blog posts: interdisciplinary research / public perceptions of invasive species / power in conservation / social and human dimensions of invasive species
• Roland Cochard (2017-2023) FT Viet project, Chercheur FNS senior. Blog posts: introducing the FT Viet project / forest change in Thừa Thiên-Huế / acacia tree farmers / economic pressures resurgent in Vietnam’s forests
• Mialy Andriamahefazafy (PhD, 2020) The politics of sustaining tuna, fisheries and livelihoods in the Western Indian Ocean: a marine political ecology perspective (UNIL Assistantship) Now at Geneva Science-Policy Interface (profile)
• Hélène Weber (PhD, 2020) Instaurer l’élevage ovin en Suisse, avec ou sans moutons (UNIL Assistantship) Now at HEIG and herbalist (site)
• Flore Lafaye de Micheaux (PhD, 2019)  Political ecology of a sacred river: hydrosocial cycle and governance of the Ganges. Now at RAMSAR (profile)