Kathrin von Allmen recently completed her dissertation at the Institute of Sociology and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Zurich. In her dissertation, she examined the concept of responsibility in the context of climate change harm mitigation. She currently works as an external lecturer at the Institute and as a postdoctoral researcher at the Environmental Sciences and Humanities Institute at the University of Fribourg. Her research interests lie in the field of climate ethics and justice, responsibility, political philosophy and feminist theory.