Dr Lucas Geese is a research fellow at the University of East Anglia. His research focuses on climate change and decarbonisation-related political representation, particularly the relationship between citizens and politicians. He is currently a researcher on the ERC-funded project Deep Decarbonisation: The Democratic Challenge of Navigating Governance Traps, in which he seeks to understand what motivates politicians to credibly commit themselves to lead in deep and rapid decarbonisation. Previously he worked as a lecturer and researcher in Comparative Politics at the University of Bamberg in Germany.