Solveig Degen is a doctoral candidate in the research project Socialization in Theory and Practice, which is based at the Centre for Social Critique in Berlin. The project is funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation and led by Dr. Rabea Berfelde and Dr. Jacob Blumenfeld. Solveig leads the subproject on socialization in the energy sector, which is also the topic of her dissertation. As part of her doctoral studies, she is conducting a systematic analysis of the problems of market-based energy provision and investigating the possibilities and challenges of socializing energy systems in the EU context. In her research, she combines approaches from political economy and sociology with perspectives from political theory and critical social philosophy. Previously, she worked at the Institute for Spatial and Social-Ecological Transformations (ISSET) at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, where she also completed her Master’s degree in Social-Ecological Economics and Policy.