Thilo Wiertz studied geography, political economics, and physics at Heidelberg University. After his graduation in 2009, he spent three years as a research fellow at the Marsilius Kolleg in Heidelberg working on the global governance of climate engineering. At Heidelberg University he taught graduate courses on subjects ranging from geographic information systems to discourse theory and political geography. From 2011 until 2012 he was an associate of the Stiftung Neue Verantwortung, a Berlin-based think tank focusing on emerging topics. In October 2012, he joined the cluster “Sustainable Interactions with the Atmosphere” (SIWA) at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam. His research interests lie within the fields of political geography, society–nature relations, and science and technology studies. In his current research, Thilo is looking at changing human–environment relations in the Anthropocene and examines how science in general and climate modeling in particular influence political understandings of climate engineering technologies.