How does heat affect family violence?
Climate change is bringing rising temperatures and more frequent extreme heatwaves, with consequences at many levels. Over the next three years, Antonio Piolanti, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Klagenfurt’s Department of Health Psychology, will explore how extreme ambient temperatures may contribute to violence against women in intimate relationships and to child maltreatment. He has secured an MSCA Global Postdoctoral Fellowship from the European Commission (Horizon Europe) as well as an Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship from the Austrian Science Fund FWF to support this research.
