Research Focus

---

Julia’s primary research area is Planetary Innovation Ecology, a systems framework for understanding how innovations emerge, interact, and scale across ecological, technological, and socio-economic environments. Her work investigates structural filters that currently suppress regenerative solutions, leading to a global innovation landscape where harm-reducing or restorative technologies represent only a small fraction of total innovation activity. She examines how new evaluation methods, governance structures, and capital-allocation models can increase the share of regenerative innovation and strengthen the adaptive capacity of societies in transition. This framework forms the conceptual backbone of her doctoral research direction.

In her SSRN-published work Symbiotic Civilization: Toward a Theory of Planetary Coherence, Julia introduces the Planetary Coherence Index (PCI), a conceptual tool for assessing the alignment between human systems and Earth’s ecological dynamics. Her research explores how institutional decision-making produces systemic misalignment, why contemporary ESG frameworks often optimize harm rather than reduce it, and how coherence-based assessments can guide innovation, investment, and policy toward regenerative outcomes. PCI provides a methodological foundation for measuring alignment at the intersections of technology, economics, governance, and planetary boundaries.

Julia’s concepts of Resilience Arbitrage and Resilience Velocity examine how regenerative technologies can scale rapidly when matched to contexts where they generate disproportionate resilience gains. Her research analyzes why certain regions—particularly emerging or structurally stressed environments—can adopt regenerative solutions faster than established markets. This work investigates the conditions under which resilience compounds and how innovation mismatches contribute to climate injustice, providing new tools for deployment strategy and systems-level transition planning.

Julia’s theoretical work explores pathways by which human civilizations could evolve toward symbiosis with planetary systems. She studies the archetypes that shape which innovations are legitimized, funded, and adopted; the institutional patterns that influence idea propagation; and the structural limitations of current governance frameworks. This research contributes to emerging scholarship on planetary governance, socio-technical evolution, and long-term systems design.

Her methodological approach combines organizational ecology, ecological economics, system dynamics, qualitative field research (Brazil, Ukraine, EU), network and ecosystem mapping, innovation-diffusion models, and integration of Indigenous knowledge systems as sources of structural insight.

• Symbiotic Civilization: A Measurable Framework for Planetary Coherence and Regenerative Intelligence (SSRN, 2025)
• Imagine Next: The Atlas & The Method of Planetary Innovation (forthcoming) 
• PV Magazine: contributions on energy security, microgrids, and decentralized systems
• Resilience Arbitrage: Designing Sandboxes for Accelerated Climate-Tech Deployment