Mathieu Bazaud is a French engineer who started his PhD at Kühne Logistics University in September 2025. Supervised by Prof. Gordon Wilmsmeier and Prof. Hanno Friedrich, he examines, through a geopolitical lens, how the development of low-carbon hydrogen and the decarbonization of the hard-to-abate sectors reshape energy geography and reorganize ports and shipping networks. His research is part of POTENT (Ports as Energy Transition Hubs), an EU-funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network that explores the role of ports in the energy transition. With training in energy engineering and project management, he has spent over ten years at the intersection of business, consulting, and policy, across industrial and environmental sectors. He is passionate about understanding how the world works and about research that connects academia with real-world problems.
