Aya Kachi is an Associate Professor of International Political Economy and Energy Policy at the University of Basel. She currently serves as an Associate Editor for Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Nature). Dr. Kachi has over 10 years of experience analyzing policy processes in the energy and climate domains. To better assist policymaking on these highly politicized issues, part of her work is dedicated to understanding how individuals form policy preferences, focusing on the role of various policy-induced costs perceived by the public. Another part of her work investigates the macro-level policy landscape, analyzing why countries experience different policymaking processes and generate different policies in energy and climate domains. Here, the role of the state-market relationship is the primary focus. Her work is based on quantitative analyses with large-N data, including observational, survey, and text data.