Heike began working as a Tyndall Research Fellow at ECI in April 2007, where she is contributing to Tyndall Research Programme 1 - informing international climate policy on how international action on climate change can be effectively developed after 2012. Her research focuses is on analyzing options for international action on climate change, specifically on possible roles of non-nation state actors, emerging countries, and transnational networks and partnerships in a post-2012 international policy framework.