Verena Kreilinger is a Research Assistant at the Division of Sociology and Human Geography. Her research focuses on the conditions, contradictions, and material constraints of the energy transition.
Her work examines the relationship between energy systems and socio-economic transformation, with a particular emphasis on EROI (Energy Return on Energy Invested), productivity, and energy flows, as well as their implications for the reorganization of production processes. She investigates the material and CO₂ intensity of the energy transition, the drivers of energy prices, and the investment conditions of capital in the energy sector.
In her recent research, she analyses the energy intensity and efficiency penalties of Negative Emissions Technologies and Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), the limitations and systemic challenges of hydrogen-based energy systems, and the role and limits of energy efficiency measures in the context of the required reduction of overall energy consumption.
Verena holds a Master’s degree in Energy and Sustainability Management and a Master’s degree in digital media studies. She previously worked as a research associate in the FWF project “Social Networking Sites in the Surveillance Society” and was part of the COST Action “Living in Surveillance Societies”, Working Group 3 “The Business of Surveillance”.
