Research Institute for
Sustainability | at GFZ

Geopolitics of Energy and Industrial Transformation

Prof. Dr. Rainer Quitzow

Research Group Leader

Prof. Dr. Doris Fuchs

Scientific Director
The energy transition is more than the development of new infrastructures and technologies; it entails far-reaching changes in society and the economy.

A global transition to sustainable energy is accompanied by important changes in the geopolitics and governance of energy. Against this background, the research group investigates how the global energy transition is affecting the international political economy of energy and identifies implications for foreign policy and international cooperation. It focuses in particular on the development of industrial strategies to reach climate neutrality targets against the background of increasing geoeconomic rivalry. An important example for this is the development of an international hydrogen economy and related political and economic change.

Transdisciplinary research for actionable solutions

The team combines disciplinary expertise from the fields of political science, economics and the environmental and physical sciences with expert knowledge from practitioners and policy makers in the energy sector. By engaging practitioners from government, business and civil society in our transdisciplinary research processes, we co-create actionable policy proposals and solutions.

Team

Prof. Dr. Rainer Quitzow

Research Group Leader

Dr. Adela Marian

Scientific Project Leader

Dr. Laima Eicke

Research Associate

Yana Zabanova

Research Associate

M. Sc. Maximilian Rischer

Research Associate

Finn Haberkost

Research Associate

Niklas Kramer

Student Assistant

Jeremy Oestreich

Student Assistant

Ekaterina Funk

Project Assistant
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