Jean-Baptiste Fressoz is a historian of science, technology and the environment. After lectureships at Imperial College London and King’s College, he is now a CNRS researcher at the Centre de Recherches Historiques de l’EHESS. He is the author of several books, including Happy Apocalypse, (2012), The Shock of the Anthropocene with Christophe Bonneuil and Chaos in the Heavens (2020) with Fabien Locher. He has just published More and more and more. An All Consuming History of Energy (Penguin, 2024).
Chloé Mikolajczak is an environmental & social justice activist & organiser based in Belgium. She has worked in European environmental NGOs on topics related to the fossil fuel industry’s influence on politics and waste. She has also been the spokesperson for Code Rouge, the largest civil disobedience movement in Belgium and has co-created and been involved in several citizen collectives on topics ranging from EACOP to deep sea mining and post-growth.
Jorrit Smit combines his background in physical chemistry and science and technology studies to explore how socio-technic futures shape scientific research – and vice versa. He is currently focused on the politics of technofixes like ‘clean’ hydrogen, carbon capture and green fertilizer. Using an interdisciplinary approach, he critically analyzes the relationships between public research and (fossil) industries as well as the political limits embedded in feasibility and sustainability assessments of emerging technologies. As part of his research, Jorrit collaborates with Naïmé Perrette on a film essay about an unexpected energy source: ‘natural’ hydrogen.
Alice Hubbard is the Strategy Manager at the Green European Foundation, and also leads on the Foundation's annual flagship European Green Academy. She has held a number of positions in national and transnational Green politics, including as Secretary General of the Global Young Greens, and on the Executive Committee of the Green Party of England and Wales. Previously she worked on the protection and promotion of civic spaces for the European Civic Forum and for the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Alice was also co-convenor for Green Party politicians globally organising for COP26, and has been a Policy Leader Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. Passionate about transnational environmental activism, Alice has worked extensively with young activists from around the world, instigating and leading political education projects, as a relationship and network builder, and for collaborative strategy development (including in the UK, Balkans, East Africa, Guatemala and Mexico).
