Nicoletta (Niki) Brazzola
I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate on Net Zero Aviation at Oxford Net Zero and at the Earth Science Department, University of Oxford. In this project, I work 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.
I previously obtained a PhD and MSc in Environmental Systems Science from ETH Zurich, where I investigated the uptake of carbon dioxide removal in the aviation and agricultural sectors, adopting an interdisciplinary approach and a broad toolbox of methods (simple climate modelling, techno-economic assessment, LCA, interviews, survey experiment). Before joining Oxford, I was a Science-Policy Fellow at the Swiss Parliament, where I supported the work of the Parliamentary Committee for the Environment and Energy.
Besides my academic activities, I co-led a working group on carbon dioxide removal policy of the Swiss Carbon Dioxide Removal Platform, a multi-stakeholder organisation, and worked and published for the United Nations Development Programme hub in Istanbul, Turkey.
