Karin Buhmann, professor, dr.scient.adm. & PhD, is the principal investigator (PI) for FRONTIERS. As such, she is overall responsible for the project and collaborates closely with the junior scholars on their research. Karin brings her expertise on risk-based (corporate sustainability) due diligence, responsible business conduct along value chains, sustainable investing and interaction between public and private regulation, self-regulation and ‘smart’ regulation into the project, as well as her extensive global network to companies, consultants, civil society, regulators and authorities, and other scholars from various disciplines. For more details, please visit Karin’s website.

Jakob Lutz is a FRONTIERS PhD fellow at Copenhagen Business School. He studies the implementation of risk-based human rights and environmental due diligence in global investment chains linked to transition mineral mining. His project focuses on the due diligence practices of institutional investors to advance responsible business conduct and local development. Particularly, he is interested in the identification of human rights and environmental risks in investments chains, and the practical application of leverage, meaningful stakeholder engagement, and capacity-building. Read more here.

Helga Askgaard Estrup is a PhD fellow in FRONTIERS. Focusing on the minerals used in green energy technology, she studies the effects of risk-based due diligence regulations in order for enterprises to identify and manage risks on people and the environment throughout their value chains in practice. Helga is particularly interested in the interplay between soft and hard law on risk-based due diligence, meaningful stakeholder engagement and responsible mining practices. Read more here.

Post-doc 1 (to be recruited; tentative start date 1 March 2025); and Post-doc 2 (to be recruited; tentative start date 1 September 2025) will work on sub-projects related to the overall topic of FRONTIERs.

Post-doc 3: Dr. Jingjing Wu. Dr Wu holds a Marie Curie post-doc in Rights of Nature at the University of Southern Denmark and will join FRONTIERS during the first half of 2026, with a Rights-of-Nature focus.