Jessica Schmidt joined the Fulda University of Applied Sciences in September 2024. She has received her PhD in Politics and International Relations from the University of Westminster, London, UK with a thesis tracing the shifting notion of democracy in discourses of international policymaking from the cold war to climate change policy programming. She has completed a post-doc fellowship at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg/ Centre for Global Cooperation Research, Duisburg, Germany. Jessica then left academia and was trained as a forestry worker. Before rejoining academic life, she has worked at the press office of HessenForst where she is currently on leave.

Her research interests sit at the intersection of political theory and policy discourse working on questions around rationalities of governance with a focus on the rise of complexity thinking and posthumanist approaches. She has published in various international journals and edited volumes on democracy promotion, climate change, resilience and neoliberalism. Her current research interests include Anthropocene thinking, crises of democracy and rationalities of Anticipatory Governance.

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