Faculty Associate Henrik Selin Awarded Prestigious Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship

Henrik Selin, an associate professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies and a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, has been awarded a Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship at the Technical University of Munich’s (TUM) Institute for Advanced Study. The three-year Fellowship, which is named after 1930 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner Hans Fischer, is awarded to “outstanding international scientists who intend to explore innovative, high-risk topics in their scientific research areas.”

Prof. Selin will spend the fall of 2018 at TUM, as well as shorter intervals during the following years, where he will also co-advise a PhD student with Prof. Miranda Schreurs.

“In addition to being a great personal honor to receive such a Fellowship, the Fellowship will allow me to further develop my research on mercury and other environmental issues,” said Prof. Selin.

In February, Prof. Selin was selected as an expert for the newly-formed Minamata Convention on Mercury effectiveness evaluation committee, representing the Pardee Center, which is an observer organization of the Convention. He was selected as an expert representing civil society based on his extensive work in international environmental governance and the management of hazardous substances.