Dr. Marianne Pascale Bartels

Marianne Pascale Bartels is a senior research associate at RIFS. Marianne joined the 'Role and Potential of Unconventional Gas' group in 2013 and her work encompassed all aspects of the shale gas debate but specifically stakeholder dialogue and public engagement across Europe as well as greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions associated with a possible shale gas development in Europe. She then was part of the Arctic Governance research group from 2015-2024 and her research focused largely on oil and gas resources across Arctic regions and questions of resource estimation, scientific knowledge production, use and communication. She has recently joined the Planetary Geopolitics research group and her work also now focuses on the role of geologists in changing energy landscapes within the wider frame of 21st Century environmental and climate challenges. Prior to joining the IASS (now RIFS), she worked in the oil and gas industry for five years on projects including conventional oil and gas, shale gas and coal bed methane exploration as well as geothermal drilling projects worldwide. Her experiences of the human implications of hydrocarbon exploration around the world led her to her research at the RIFS. Marianne lives in Potsdam with her husband and three children and is a keen marathon runner.