About

I'm part of the research groups "H2POLITICS - Just hydrogen partnerships with the Global South" and "GLOCALPOWER – Funds, Tools and Networks for an African Energy Transition". My research focuses on energy transitions on the African continent with a view toward energy and climate justice and with a focus on green hydrogen. I also work on a dissertation on the contentious relationships between trade unions and climate (justice) movements in conflicts about coal transitions in Germany and South Africa in order to work out potentials and obstacles for labor-environmental alliances. With the ILA-Kollektiv, I‘m linking academia and activism and translate results from transition studies and social movement studies for activist circles.

 

My research focuses are:

• Energy and climate justice in the global energy transition
• The role of climate justice movements
• Socio-ecological transformation and just transition, especially the role of trade unions in transition conflicts
• Political Ecology with a focus on Gramscian Political Ecology