Eva Kunseler is an external PhD researcher at the Department of Environmental Policy Analysis of the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In her dissertation research she explores practices of government science advising. She studies practical concerns of environmental researchers engaged in participatory knowledge production at the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL). At IVM, she is part of the research cluster 'Science and Values for Environmental Governance'. Since 2008 Eva works as a policy researcher for the PBL in the Department of Information Data and Methodology (since 2014). Currently she is coordinating a strategic research programme on participatory knowledge production and she supports the design and coordination of particpatory processes with policy makers and other stakeholders. Eva completed the MSc in Environmental Health Sciences from Maastricht University in 2005. Her MSc thesis is on the Role of Advisory Bodies in Environmental Health Policymaking, which is based on a comparative research project on advisory bodies in France, Germany and Poland that she conducted at the Health Council of the Netherlands. She also spent a few months working as an intern for the World Health Organization in Bonn, Germany and contributed to the establishment of a European Environment and Health Information System for Policy Support. Her research into advisory bodies and her experiences with the daily operations of these expert organisations raised her interest into the functioning of boundary organisations at the science-policy interface. After completing her degree she spent two years working for the Environmental Health Department of the Finnish National Public Health Institute in Kuopio, Finland in European research projects funded by the European Commission under the Sixth Framework Programme. She coordinated a research project to explore the scientific rationale of environmental health policies in European Member States.

Environmental studies