Paula Klöcker is a PhD researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena since June 2025. She is part of the Junior Research Team "Decarbonization at the Expense of Others? Property Relations in the Hydrogen Economy in South America" focusing on the transnational property relations of green hydrogen politics, the global narratives and promises that surround the global green hydrogen hype, and the social-ecological conflicts that can arise in the process. In this context, Paula is analysing in particular the bilateral energy partnership between Germany and Chile.
Previously, she worked at the Institute for Social-Ecological Research (ISOE) in Frankfurt am Main and investigated the socio-ecological risks of green hydrogen production in Namibia. She studied sociology (B.A.) and regional sciences and spatial planning (M.Sc.) in Mainz, Karlsruhe and in Concepción in Chile. She wrote her master's thesis on the role of civil participation during the implementation of wind energy projects in the Bíobío region in Chile.
Her research interests cover a range of topics, including extractivism, social-ecological conflicts, infrastructures, social inequality, green hydrogen politics and socio-technical imagineries, which she approaches with concepts from political ecology, social ecology, science and technology studies and human geography.
