Resident Faculty

  • Brandon P. Anthony
    Assistant Professor
    Director, Remote/Rural Communities & the Environment
    Center for Environment and Security (CENSE)
    Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy

    Prior to joining CEU faculty, Brandon Anthony worked as advisor to the Hungarian Nature Conservation Institute as well as a park supervisor/biologist with a Regional Conservation Authority in Canada. He has conducted research on nature conservation and community livelihoods in Canada, South Africa, Malawi, Romania and Hungary.

  • Alexios Antypas
    Associate Professor
    Director, Center for Environment and Security
    Center for Environment and Security (CENSE)
    Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy

    Dr. Antypas joined CEU in 2000. His research interest includeGlobal environmental governance, Environmental policy change and transformation, Human rights and the environment and Science-policy studies. Prior to joining CEU, he worked for Civic Education Project as a visiting professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Rezekne in Latvia and served as a consultant to UNDP, UNEP, the US Forest Service, the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe.

  • Aleh Cherp
    Professor
    CEU Director for Research and International Academic Cooperation
    Center for Environment and Security (CENSE)
    Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy

    Aleh Cherp has worked in CEU from 2000. His research interests include environmental assessment, strategic environmental assessment, sustainable development strategies, sustainability and transition to market economies, energy and environmental security. He is the Rapporteur of the Advisory Working Group on the Environment (including Climate Change) of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Commission and a Coordinating Lead Analyst (Energy Security) in the Global Energy Assessment.

  • Zoltán Illés
    Associate Professor
    Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy

    Ph.D. (BME, Budapest), part-time: Soil contamination by industrial chemicals; analysis of pesticide and heavy metal content in water and soil; influence of pesticides on soil bacteria; soil ecosystems; environmental protection, management and policies.

  • Ruben Mnatsakanian
    Professor
    Head of the Department
    Center for Environment and Security (CENSE)
    Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy

    Ph.D. (Moscow State University): Head of Department, Director of UNEP GEO Collaborating Center: State of the environment and pollution problems in the countries of the region; environmental policy; global environmental issues, sources of environmental information.

  • Tamara Steger
    Assistant Professor
    Director, Environmental Justice Programme
    Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy

    Ph.D. (Syracuse University), MSc (University of Washington): Director of the Environmental Justice Program (EJP); Co-founder, China Initiative for Sustainable Development; Vice-President of the Executive Committee, Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL)

  • Diana Ürge-Vorsatz
    Professor
    Director, Center for Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Policies (3CSEP)
    Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy

    Ph.D. (UC Berkeley and UCLA), MSc (ELTE, Budapest):  Energy efficiency and renewable energy sources; energy policies for economies in transition; CO2 emission mitigation; climate change policy; EU enlargement and sustainable energy policy.

  • Alan Watt
    Assistant Professor
    Director of PhD program
    Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy

    Ph.D. (Warwick University): Director of PhD program; environmental philosophy and political theory; academic writing for environmental sciences and policy.