Janpeter was previously Alert's Environment, Climate Change and Security Programme Officer and now works for Alert as a Research Associate. He is also an Associated Researcher for the Research Group on Climate Change and Security at Hamburg University. Before joining Alert, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Environmental Security at Colgate University in New York and a Research Associate at Hamburg University where he received his PhD in Geography. His field of specialisation is the links between climate change, vulnerability, adaptation and conflict, on which he has published several journal articles.