Tom Bauler holds the Chair "Environment & Economics" at ULB, where he teaches and works in an ecological economics perspective. He is also co-director of the Interfaculty Institute for Socio-Environmental Transformations and Research Advisor to the Vice-Rector for Sustainable Development at ULB.
After being trained in economics (Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg-FR) and a postgraduate in Sciences-Technology-Society in Lausanne (EPFL, CH) & Strasbourg, Tom invested some time into research on the governance of alternative indicators to GDP (PhD in Sciences, ULB, 2007). He has been a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard University (Boston, USA) within the Program on Science, Technology and Society (STS).
Starting from a Political Economy tradition and a transdisciplinary base in Ecological Economics, his research mixes approaches from economic and political sociology with the sociology of science and technology and analyses interdependencies between environmental and economic governance. Lately his research projects evolve on questions related to Socio-ecological Justice, Social-Ecological Protection as well as Ex- and Innovation Studies.
