Erika Faigen

Erika Faigen is an economic geographer concerned with the role of R&D and innovation in sustainable mineral-based material uses in energy technologies for global energy system transformations. She is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Vienna. Erika earned her PhD in Geography at the University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS). She conducted research at the GEUS Centre for Minerals and Materials, and postdoctoral research with Monash University and Durham University.