Kalina Damianova

I am a final-year PhD candidate at King's Russia Institute, King's College London. In my PhD dissertation, I look at the evolution of Russia's gas strategy. My PhD research project is funded by the UK Research & Innovation's Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) through the London Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership (LISS DTP).

Prior to this, I was a Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) Energy Security Research Fellow at the European Centre for Climate, Energy and Resource Security (EUCERS), at the Department of War Studies of King's College London (KCL), where I conducted a one-year in-depth strategy study on Iran's oil and gas sector and worked on the (Re-) emerging energy superpowers project that included a series of Energy Talks, organised by EUCERS, KAS and the Institute of Strategic Dialogue (ISD).

I hold an MA (Dist.) from the Department of War Studies, King's College London. And since 2017, I have been been working as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the School of Politics & Economics at KCL, teaching several courses - most notably: "International Politics of Energy" - a module for second-year undergraduates - and "Geopolitics of Energy" - a module for third-year undergraduates.