Abeer Y Al-Eryani

Abeer is an energy transition postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Environment, Community, and Equity at American University. Her doctoral research examined the relationship between war dynamics and energy systems in Yemen, focusing on how conflict reshapes electricity access and generation at both governmental and private levels.

Her expertise lies at the intersection of energy transitions, energy justice, and the political economy of conflict. She investigates how wars, crises, and institutional disruptions transform energy systems, creating both barriers and openings for renewable and decentralized energy. Her work pays particular attention to questions of justice, examining who gains and who loses from energy system changes, how inequalities are reproduced or challenged, and what this means for the design of conflict-sensitive and equitable transitions.

Abeer is currently in the final stages of her PhD program at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex. She holds a master’s degree in development studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and a bachelor’s degree in finance from Amman Alahlyah University.