Antonia Kranz completed her two-subject Bachelor’s degree in Politics & Society and History at the University of Bonn. She wrote her Bachelor’s thesis on European energy policy with a special focus on geopolitical diversification strategies. Subsequently, she deepened her academic education in the Master’s program in Political Science at the same university. As part of her Master’s thesis, she analyzed scientific collaboration between Germany and Sweden using qualitative and quantitative social science methods.

Alongside her studies, she gained practical experience, including at the Regional Representation of the European Commission in Bonn, at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), at the Center for Advanced Strategic and Integration Studies (CASSIS) Bonn and at KfW Development Bank.

Since May 2025, Antonia Kranz has been working at IREES as a research assistant in the business unit “Social Science Research on the Energy Transition”.