Eugenia Obeng-Akrofi
PhD Student
Profile
Biography
Eugenia is a PhD student at both the Department of Politics & the Department of Environment and Geography. Her research focuses on ‘The Political Economy of Energy Transitions : the Role of Fusion on the Climate change Debate.’ Her work aims to impact beyond the scholarly community, and influence governments and international organisations. She completed an LLM in International Energy Law and Policy at the University of Dundee, Scotland. Prior to this, she was awarded a BA in Political Science with Archaeology, and worked at the Parliament of Ghana from 2018 to 2019
Research
Overview
Fusion Energy is likely to play a key role in supporting long-term solutions to the world’s energy needs to prevent the worst effects of climate change. My research aims to address some of the political power, leadership or cooperation issues in the deployment of fusion energy, its societal benefits and costs and implications for international and national climate change mitigation.
