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Nicolas Malz has been working as a research assistant at the Institute of Energy and Environmental Management at the European University of Flensburg since April 2022. Prior to joining the team at EUF, Nicolas worked as a research assistant at the Berlin Institute of Technology's Workgroup for Infrastructure Policy (WIP) from 2020 to 2021. 

Before graduating in 2021, he was a student of public policy and business administration & economics at the University of Passau. He is currently pursuing a second undergraduate degree in computer science at the LMU Munich.

As a research assistant, Nicolas supports on a wide range of research topics related to the governance of extractive industries, specific countries’ climate and energy policy, and their transnational implications. The geographic focus of his research lies on the People's Republic of China, Colombia, and Sub-Saharan Africa.

• Yanguas Parra, P./ Malz, N./ Oei, P.-Y./ Furnaro, A./ Hauenstein, C./ Quiceno, G./ Corral Montoya, F./ Mitterecker, T./ Hanto, J. (2023): Perspective: How a short-term relapse to coal could put exporting countries and just transition processes at risk. Energy Research & Social Science, Vol. 97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.102989
• Malz, N./ Corral Montoya, F./ Yanguas Parra, P./ Oei, P.-Y. (2023): China’s climate and energy policy paradox revisited – domestic and international implications of a carbon lock-in ‘with Chinese characteristics’. Energy Sources, Part B: Economics, Planning and Policy, Vol. 18. https://doi.org/10.1080/15567249.2023.2166164
• Corral Montoya, F., Telias, M. and Malz, Nicolas (2022). Unveiling the political economy of fossil fuel extractivism in Colombia: Tracing the processes of phase-in, entrenchment, and lock-in. Energy Research & Social Science, 88, pp. 102377. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2021.102377
• Vargas Guevara, O. S., Corral Montoya, F. A., …, Malz, Nicolas (2022). Impulsos desde abajo para las transiciones energéticas justas: género, territorio y soberanía. Fundación Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FESCOL) & Universidad del Magdalena. Available at: https://doi.org/10.21676/9789587464689
• Corral Montoya, F., Santamaria, R., …, Malz, Nicolas (2021).  Hechos y Realidades de la Minería de Carbón a Gran Escala en Cesar y Guajira (Colombia). Joint Report by TU Berlin & Universidad del Magdalena. Available at: https://doi.org/10.21676/9789587464634