Aleksandra joined the Department of Geography as a Lecturer in Geopolitics in September 2026. Aleksandra's research examines the geopolitical and spatial transformations associated with contemporary capitalism, with a particular focus on energy infrastructure and infrastructure-led development.

She has previously served as Lecturer in International Political Economy at the Department of European and International Studies at KCL and as Postdoctoral Researcher at the ERC-funded Platform Labor project at the University of Amsterdam. She completed her PhD at the Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Research

• Energy infrastructure and geopolitics
• State spatiality and restructuring
• Neoliberalism
• Authoritarian politics and practices
• Platform capitalism and digital infrastructures

Her current research centres on energy infrastructure in the Balkans, examining how the energy transition and infrastructure investment reshape state power and geopolitical competition in the global political economy. Aleksandra is a recipient of a UKRI Global Polarities Network Plus Fellowship (2026/27), supporting her research investigating the upgrading of the regional electricity grid, and the implications this has had on the renewable energy transition and geopolitical change in the Balkans and beyond.

Her wider research examines the changing contours of contemporary global capitalism, with particular attention to continuities and changes within neoliberal accumulation, authoritarian politics and practices, and crisis-driven state restructuring. Across these cases, she has been interested in how scale mediates wider processes of political-economic and geopolitical change, and what processes of territorial and urban restructuring reveal about the changing organisation of the global political economy.

Aleksandra has published in the journals Antipode, Geoforum, Review of International Political Economy, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, Globalizations, and her book is forthcoming with Routledge.

Teaching 

Undergraduate

• 4SSG1008 Geography Tutorials: Critical Thinking & Techniques
• 4SSG1015 Geography Foundations 2: Challenges of the Modern World
• 5SSG2063 BA Geography Research Approaches
• 5SS62067 Geopolitics: People, Power and Change
• 6SSG3093 Geopolitics: Decolonial and Radical Approaches

Postgradaute

• 7SSGN212 Critical Geopolitics

 

Further details 

See Aleksandra's research profile