Project Leads
Dr. Viktoria Cologna is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University, supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation. She uses qualitative and quantitative research methods to investigate public opinion of science, trust in science, and the determinants of individual and collective action on climate change.
Dr. Niels G. Mede is a Senior Research and Teaching Assistant at the Department of Communication and Media Research (IKMZ), University of Zurich, Switzerland. His research focuses on science communication, public opinion about science, populism and its implications for science, and survey methodology.
Prof. Naomi Oreskes is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. An internationally renowned scientist and historian, she is a leading voice on the reality on anthropogenic climate change and the history of efforts to undermine climate action and scientific truth. She is the official Harvard University faculty sponsor of the TISP project.