Kari De Pryck is a lecturer (maîtresse assistante) at the Institute for Environmental Sciences (ISE) of the University of Geneva and affiliated to the research hub ‘Environmental Governance and Territorial Development’ (GEDT). She is also a research associate at the Center Internet et Société (CNRS).

She holds a joint-PhD from Sciences Po Paris (CERI – medialab) and the University of Geneva (GSI – SPERI). She has been a postdoctoral fellow (2019 – 2022) of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), affiliated with the laboratory PACTE at the University of Grenoble Alpes and with the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge. She also joined (2021) the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam (Germany) to work on the EU-funded project ‘OceanNETs’.

At the intersection between International Relations and Science and Technology Studies, she is interested in the production of international environmental expertise and more particularly in the negotiating practices between experts and diplomats within the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Since 2019, she has been observing the IPCC sixth assessment cycle (AR6) as part of a collaborative event ethnography (with J. O’Reilly, M. Vardy and M. Feital). She is also interested in the science and politics of ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and geo-engineering.

She has taught international relations and international environmental politics in several institutions (Sciences Po Paris, Sciences Po Grenoble, the University of Geneva, AgroParisTech and the University of Cambridge).