Helge Jörgens is a Researcher at at CIES-IUL – Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology, Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa  in Lisbon Portugal. He holds a PhD from Freie Universität Berlin. From 2010 to 2016 he was tenured Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the Freie Universität Berlin and Managing Director of the Environmental Policy Research Centre (FFU). Until 2025 he was Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science and Public Policy of Iscte-IUL. His research interests include environmental, energy and climate policies, the role and influence of international public administrations, and the diffusion and transfer of public policies.