Isabell Schrickel is a PhD candidate at the Center for Global Sustainability and Cultural Transformation  (Leuphana University / Arizona State University). She studied Media Theory, History and Journalism at Humboldt and Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Basel. In 2017 Isabell was a visiting fellow at the Harvard Department of the History of Science. Her research interests include the history of the environmental sciences, the history of modeling and simulation, and the evolution of sustainability thinking.