Martina Kolanoski is a senior researcher in the “Energy” Cluster at the Interdisciplinary Research Centre for the Baltic Sea Region (IFZO) at the University of Greifswald. She has been a member of the Research Academy since 2023. Her qualitative, socio-legal research examines processes of legal development in the energy transition with regard to characteristic governance and knowledge problems. Her current areas of focus include managing uncertainty in the development of a hydrogen core network, and acceleration laws with the conflicting demands of participation and environmental protection.

Martina studied political science, modern history and public law in Potsdam and Berlin (HU/FU). Her socio-legal dissertation Juridification of warfare and limits of accountability: An ethnomethodological investigation into the production and assessment of legal targeting at Goethe University Frankfurt/Main (2019) develops a practice perspective on aspects of international criminal law and the distinction between civilians and insurgents in military airstrikes.

After gaining work experiences as a research assistant in the German parliament (2010-2011), she began her teaching and research activities in sociology, first in a binational teaching-research project at the University of Bochum (2011-2013) and then as a researcher at the Chair of Interpretative Social Research at Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main (2013-2022). She was a research fellow at the University of Liverpool (2016-2022) and visiting fellow at the German Institute for Human Rights (2021-2022).