Zakia Soomauroo is a PhD Candidate at TU Berlin and the Rainer Lemoine Institute, where Zakia has been awarded a PhD scholarship by the Reiner Lemoine Foundation. The title of her dissertation is “Decarbonization of Small Island Developing States through the Transport Sector”. Her research is broadly concerned with the dimensions of socio-technical transitions, the mobility of people, and climate change, with a focus on urban environments and small islands. In particular, she looks at how infrastructure investments and policies can be most effectively implemented.