Felix’s research focuses on the interplay between political economy and political geography.
He is particularly interested in understanding how shifting conceptions of geopolitics and geoeconomics have travelled across space and profoundly reshaped our political and economic histories. As part of his work at CNR where he is attached to the ERC-funded Illicit Labour project, he currently studies the relation between global precious metals markets, resource geopolitics and the so-called green energy transition. He also works on a longer-term book project that studies the influence of central banks on the globalisation of capital.

His prior research has been centred on the global ocean economy and ocean politics. In particular, he investigated the origins and effects of the blue economy, the political economy of sea-level rise, deep-sea mining and the geopolitics of Large Marine Protected Areas. Felix has a longstanding interest in the Pacific islands’ region, where he conducted much of his fieldwork and regularly advised governments on spatial and resource politics.
His work has been published in journals such as Environment & Planning: A, International Affairs, Transactions of the British Institute of Geographers and Journal of Agrarian Change.

Felix gained a scholarship-funded PhD degree in geography from National University of Singapore and King’s College London. He subsequently worked as a Postdoc in the International Relations group at University of Copenhagen; as Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow in Geography at the National University of Singapore; and as a Lecturer in Political and Environmental Geography at University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Prior to his PhD, he worked in foreign policy with diplomatic experiences at various embassies, including the UN in New York. He holds an MA in Geopolitics, Territory & Security from King’s College London.