Anastasia Pavlenko is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy. Her research focuses on the evolution of the European Union’s renewable energy and climate policies. Specifically, she investigates how renewable energy targets have been set and implemented, how subsidies and regulatory measures have evolved, under what conditions policy goals were achieved or missed and how the 2022 energy security crisis in Europe affected green energy transitions.
Anastasia is affiliated with the POLET (Perspectives on Technological Change and Energy Transitions) network and has contributed to several international research projects including MISTRA Electrification (Lund University), ENGAGE Horizon 2020, and STEADFAST CIVICA. She presented her work at the General Conferences of the European Consortium for Political Research, and at workshops on green backlash at Sciences Po and on petrostates and decarbonisation at CEU. Her research has also been presented at the What Works Climate Solutions Conference (Berlin, 2024), the International Sustainability Transitions (IST) Conference (Lisbon, 2025), the Scenarios Forum (Leeds, 2025), and the Powering Europe’s Future Conference (Warsaw, 2025). Anastasia is an active participant of the Open Society Hub for the Politics of the Anthropocene and contributes to Department's teaching on energy and climate. Beyond CEU, she served as a consultant for an EU-funded project in Lithuania.