Raised on a farm in Denmark and educated in the UK and Australia, Christine is driven by a curiosity about local environmental knowledge and the societal coping capacities generated by it. Her research focuses on people’s ability to coexist with wildfire in the broader context of cultural norms, political agendas, climate change, and environmental history. 

Christine is the author of two books and over 100 other publications. Her ability to unpack social dimensions of disasters has gained her international recognition as a ground-breaking scholar. Her work demonstrates a long-standing commitment to qualitative research that is in-depth, applied, collaborative, and interdisciplinary.

Christine completed her PhD and worked as a social scientist at the University of Wollongong, Australia from 2007-2020. She then relocated to Switzerland to work as a senior researcher in the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zürich from 2020-2023. In August 2023, Christine was awarded a Consolidator Grant by the Swiss National Science Foundation for a five-year project to study on community wildfire resilience in Europe.

Up to date information about Christine's work is available on her website: www.christineeriksen.com