Dr. Katharina Oemmelen
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin | Postdoktorandin
Forschungsschwerpunkte
- Globale Energiewende
- Ländliche Elektrifizierung im Globalen Süden
- Politische Ökonomie
- Postkoloniale, feministische und partizipative Forschungsansätze
Dr. Katharina Oemmelen
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Meckenheimer Allee 166
53115 Bonn
Lebenslauf
Postdoktorand & Lecturer
PhD Candidate
Guest Researcher
Senior Managerin im International Business Development
Blue Book Trainee
Praktikantin
MPhil in Development Studies
BA Geography
Publikationen und Vorträge
2026
Oemmelen, K. (2026). From Energy to Empowerment? Gender and the uneven pathways of change in solar mini-grid projects in rural Madagascar [Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), University College London (UCL)]. https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10229549/
Oemmelen, K., Page, B., Rasoarimalala, T., & Parikh, P. (2026). Rethinking the gender-energy nexus beyond the productive–reproductive binary: A mixed-methods study from rural Madagascar. Energy Research & Social Science, 133, 104609. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2026.104609
Yaguma, P., Oemmelen, K., Tuhairwe, F., Pailman, W., & Bakengana, P. (2026). The Pay-As-You-Go solar power sector evolution should not leave Africa’s most vulnerable behind. Communications Sustainability, 1(1), 74. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44458-026-00078-y
2025
Oemmelen, K., Page, B., & Parikh, P. (2025). Shared Power, Shared Benefits? Reviewing private sector collaborations with community actors in Sub-Saharan Africa’s mini grid sector. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 222, 115948. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2025.115948
Pailman, W., Caprotti, F., Yaguma, P., Hastie, H., Oemmelen, K., Opio, I. M., & Sheridan, D. (2025). Within reach? Sustainable energy infrastructure financing for “hardest to reach” communities. Frontiers in Sustainable Energy Policy, 4, 1527162. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsuep.2025.1527162
Oemmelen, K. (2025). On-the-ground fieldwork elevates community voices in energy access research. Nature Energy. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-025-01708-w
Paper presentation ‘The Cost of Silence: A case study of community engagement in Madagascar’s mini-grid sector’
Paper presentation ‘Challenging the productive–reproductive binary in energy and gender research: Evidence from Madagascar’