Dr Viktoria Cologna

Viktoria is a Group Leader at Eawag, the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, where she leads the Climate and Societal Change group. Her research in environmental psychology focuses on the determinants of individual and collective action on climate change, the role of science in society, public trust in science, and the effects of scientists’ engagement on climate issues. She was the main lead of the award-winning TISP Many Labs study, which investigated the state of trust in scientists in 68 countries. Prior to Eawag, Viktoria held postdoctoral positions at Harvard University, the Swiss Institute for Advanced Study, Leibniz University Hannover, the University of Zurich, and ETH Zurich, where she obtained her PHD.