Debjani Bhattacharyya is professor for the History of the Anthropocene at the University of Zurich. Since 2019, she has been a non-residential fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania. Before her switch to the University of Zurich, she had been an associate professor for History and Urban Studies at Drexel University. In her research, she focuses on the interface between legal and environmental history, not least on the issue of how legal and economic structures shape our understanding of environmental change, and how these impacts our reaction to the climate crisis.