MSc. Gabriella Guinlle

Gabriella Guinlle is a postdoctoral researcher at the Erasmus Commodity & Trade Centre (ECTC), Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her work focuses on understanding how pricing hubs form and examining the conditions under which the Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp (ARA) port-industrial complex could become a global pricing centre for hydrogen and its derivatives. 

Previously, in her PhD at the Amsterdam Business School, she examined how Europe's energy transition is being organised and how the process is contested and constructed by different actors, with the creation of hydrogen markets as the central case. She studies what corporate actors do when a technology is still open to interpretation, how they envision futures that fit the assets they already own, how they frame what counts as clean or transition-relevant in EU policy consultations, and how directionality set from the EU meets the material conditions of hard-to-abate sectors like steel. A separate strand examines citizen-led energy initiatives in Amsterdam, where access to participation still depends on property, capital, and social position, and the futures that are built are imagined by actors whose voices are formally incorporated into decision-making, while others remain outside the process. 

The postdoctoral project extends this work to the pricing dimension of market formation, examining institutional architecture, intermediary organisations, and pricing infrastructure through which an emerging energy commodity becomes tradable, with a focus on hydrogen and its derivatives (ammonia, methanol, LOHC). 

Main Research Interests

• Hydrogen market formation and pricing infrastructure 
• Market creation in emerging energy commodities 
• Corporate framing and policy contestation in energy transitions 
• Decarbonisation of hard-to-abate sectors (steel, ammonia)