Dr. Laima Eicke
Research Associate
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Laima Eicke is a Research Associate at the Research Institute for Sustainability at GFZ. Her research focuses on the geopolitics of the energy transition, the decarbonization of industrial value chains, renewable energy technologies and hydrogen as well as on energy policy and green industrial policies. She is a former Associate and Research Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School and worked at the German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ), the Germany Ministry for International Affairs, NGOs and in consultancy.
Groups
Blog Posts
- How Decarbonization Will Transform the Geography of Industrial Production: New Evidence on the “Renewables Pull” Hypothesis
- Fostering Energy Transitions in the Global South: Insights from Chile, Jordan, Malaysia, and Kenya
- Stakeholder-based scenario building: How does it work in practice?
- Environmental Impact, Coalition of Hope, and the Coal Issue
- Investment in the Future: How a Green Covid-19 Stimulus Package Can Advance the Energy Transition
- Live from Madrid
- Tough trade-offs for new international carbon market mechanisms
- The geopolitics of renewables. A new but messy energy world
- 2018 Support for the implementation of the Paris Agreement, GIZ
- 2015 - 2017 Institute for Social Change and Sustainability, Vienna
- 2017 180 Degrees Consulting, Vienna
- 2017 Global 2000, Vienna
- 2015 Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Lisbon
- 2014 Potsdam Institute for Climate Change Research (PIK), Potsdam
- 2014 Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Economics Department, Berlin
- Since 2014 Climate Delegation/ Youth Alliance for Future Energy (JBZE), Berlin
- Energy policy, industrial policy
- Renewable energie technologies, hydrogen
- Decarbonization of industrial value chains
- International Relations, international political economy, public policy
Publications at the RIFS
Teaching
- 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021 Guest Lecture Centre International de Formation Européenne (CIFE)
- 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020 Guest Lecture Willy Brandt School for Public Policy at the Universität Erfurt
- 2023 Guest Lecture Florence School of Regulation, European University Institute
- 2023 Guest Lecture Harvard Kennedy School
- 2020 Guest Lecture Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich
- 2019 Lecturer for a two-week Summer School, Stiftung Bildung und Begabung Selected Conferences, Keynotes, Talks and Panel Debates
- 2024, 2023, 2021, 2020, 2019 General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Science (ECPR)
- 2024 World Hydrogen Week
- 2023 International QCA workshop
- 2024, 2023 SWP Expert Talks on Energy Market Developments and Geopolitics
- 2023 Hertie Summit
- 2023 FSR Debate, European University Institute
- 2022 Conference on the Geopolitics of the Green Hydrogen Transition, German Federal Foreign Office
- 2021, 2020, Side Event at UNFCCC COP
- 2021 ECPR Joint Session on Integrating a Technology Perspective into Feedback Theory
- 2021 European Union in International Affairs' (EUIA) Conference
- 2021 International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention
- 2020 Conference of the international relations section of the German Political Science Association (GPSA)
- Early Career Best Paper Prize of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Research Network on Energy Politics, Policy and Governance (Energy-PPG)
- Scholarship, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
- Fellowship, German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung)
- 'College Europe' Scholarship Program of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation
- 'Shaping the Transition' Scholarship Program of the Heinrich-Boell-Foundation
- Franz Schnabel Medallie
- Humanismus Heute Preis