Nicoletta (Niki) Brazzola

Niki Brazzola is a Postdoctoral Research Associate on Net Zero Aviation at Oxford Net Zero and at the Earth Science Department, University of Oxford. She works on the credibility of strategies to decarbonize the aviation sector, with a focus on the geological offsetting of aviation emissions and on carbon accounting and certificates. 

Niki Brazzola obtained a PhD and MSc in Environmental Systems Science from ETH Zurich, where she investigated the uptake of carbon dioxide removal in the aviation and agricultural sectors, adopting an interdisciplinary approach and a varied toolbox of methods. Before joining Oxford, she was Science-Policy Fellow at the Swiss Parliament, where she supported the work of the Parliamentary Committee for the Environment and Energy. 

Besides her academic activities, Niki Brazzola co-led a working group on CDR policy of the Swiss Carbon Dioxide Removal Platform, a multi-stakeholder organisation. She also carried out research at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Maryland, U.S., where she collaborated on NASA’s Blue Carbon Monitoring project, at the University of Tübingen, and at the Leibniz Institute for Freshwater Ecology in Berlin, Germany. Nicoletta also worked and published for the United Nations Development Programme hub in Istanbul, Turkey.