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Bonno Pel is an Assistant Professor at Utrecht University, specializing in critical innovation studies. His research focuses on governance, politics, and sustainability transitions, where he studies processes of transformative social innovation. He has explored themes and empirical areas including traffic management, social enterprises, energy citizenship, energy prosumerism, circular economy, digital transition, delta area management, and sustainable festival management, as well as labor transformation. Pel has earned master's degrees in environmental planning and socio-political philosophy from the University of Amsterdam and obtained his doctoral degree from the Governance of Complex Systems research group in public administration at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He has previously worked at the Rathenau Institute for technology assessment, and the Dutch Research Institute for Transitions (DRIFT), and has a decade of experience with the Centre d'Etudes du développement durable (CEDD) and the Social-environmental dynamics research group (SONYA) at Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. In these roles, he has coordinated and led multi-tiered research projects at regional, national, and European levels.
Department of Psychology