Laima Eicke is a Research Associate at the Research Institute for Sustainability at the Helmholtz Centre Potsdam. Her research focuses on the geopolitics of the energy transition, value chains of renewable energy technologies and green industrial policies with a focus on the role of green hydrogen in industrial value chains. Furthermore, she published on energy transition scenarios and the role of renewable energy finance and technology for energy transitions processes in countries of the Global South. 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.