HIIK - Key Persons
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- Chairman
- Methodological Adviser
Anna Feiereisen works at the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) as desk officer for Somalia. She studied Political Science and French at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg until 2017. At the HIIK, Anna started as a researcher for conflicts in Kenya in 2016 and took over the regional coordination for the Horn of Africa in 2017. In April 2019 she became head of the methodology department.
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- Scientific Research Associate, German Armed Forces
Benjamin Alvensleben (bal), Binta Bah (bib), Rebecca Beigel (rbe), Reimar Belschner (rrb), Cecily Bernstorff (ceb), Marit Braunschweig (mab), Svenja Brunkhorst (svb), Benjamin Bräuer (bbr), Lisa Bunnenberg (lib), Fiona Byrne (fb), Victoria Caillet (vic), Constantinvon Crailsheim (coc), Katharina Danisch (kda), Lisa Erlmann (lem), Anne Michelle Fischer (afi), Marcel Geißler (mge), Tanja Gillmann (tag), Lisa Gürth (lgu), Annina Hittmeyer (anh), Lion Hubrich (lih), Levin Husen (lhu), Hannes Kaden (hka), Eva Maria Lang (eml), Jasper Linke (jli), Marjam Mayer (mme), Birgit Kirsten Müllner (bkm), Lennard Naumann (len), Luukvan Os (lvo), Kristina Pape (krp), Ingrid Rooda (iro), Zoë Schaffelder (zsc), Theresa Schmid (tsm), Jakob Schultz (jas), David Schultz (das), Rebecca Abu Sharkh (ras), Sarah Sieber (sas), Desiree Solte (des), Julia Spanier (jsp), Helena Sproll (hsp), Verena Strauber (ves), Hanna Swartzendruber (hss), Miya Takada (mta), Juliana Trappmann (jtr), Lisa Waldheim (liw), Jonas Weber (jwe), Jana Winter (jwi)
Christopher Becker studies East Asian Studies and Islamic Studies at the University of Heidelberg since 2011. From 2012 to 2013, he studied Chinese Language at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Since 2012, he is a researcher in the working group "Conflicts in Asia and Oceania". In 2014, Christopher Becker became a Member of the Board of Directors and the chairperson of the IT department.
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- the Policy Practice / Asia Foundation
- the Policy Practice, Brighton
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- National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore
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- London School of Economics, London
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- Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, Frankfurt a. M., Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
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- University of Barcelona, Department of Contemporary History
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- Scientific Research Associate, German Armed Forces
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- University of Heidelberg, Institute of Political Science
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- Congo Research Group, New York
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- Institute for Advanced Study, Central European University, Budapest
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- HSFK Peace Research Institute Frankfurt
- HSFK Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, Frankfurt
- Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, Frankfurt
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- University of Heidelberg, Institute of Political Science
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- Global Initiative Network / London School of Economics / University of Cape Town
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- Group of Advanced Studies on Conflicts in Guyana and the Caribbean, Federal University of Amapá, Macap
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- PRIO Peace Research Institute Oslo, Oslo
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- University of Heidelberg, Institute of Political Science
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- National Institute for Strategic Studies Ukraine, Donetsk
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- United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( MONUSCO )
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- Modern Security Consulting Group
- Modern Security Consulting Group, Berlin
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- Peace Research Institute Oslo Cyprus Center
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- Chairman
- Member of the Institute
Eduard Ebert became a member of the Institute in 2019 and started as a researcher for conflicts in Belarus and Russia. Since May 2020 he has been a member of the board of directors and is chairman of the IT department.
Emil Unrath is student of the Political Sciences and Economics in Heidelberg since 2015. His studies focus on International Relations. He joined HIIK as a researcher in 2016 the working group "Balkan", which he is heading since 2017. The same year he became chairperson of the finance and law department.
Giacomo Köhler has been studying Political Science and History at Heidelberg University since 2016. He became a member in 2017, initially working as an editor for conflicts in China. In 2019 he became one of the heads of the regional working group Asia & Oceania, responsible for conflicts in the China region. Since May 2020 he has joined the Board of Directors and heads the Data Management Department.
Jason Franz is a student of Political Science and East Asian Studies at the University of Heidelberg. From 2012 to 2013, he studied Public Management and International Relations at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Since 2012 he is Head of the Working Group "Conflicts in Asia & Oceania" and member of the methodology department. In 2014, he became the chairperson of the department and a Member of the Board of Directors.
Jasper Linke is a student of Political Science and Contemporary History at the University of Heidelberg since 2012. From 2014 to 2015 he made a study visit to Geneva University, Switzerland, focusing on Transnational History. Analyzing Sub-Saharan conflicts at the HIIK since the year 2012, he became part of the editorial board in 2013 and part of the department of methodology in 2014. Being a Head of the working group "Sub-Sahara Africa" since 2014 he assumed the position as Editor in Chief of the Conflict Barometer in April 2015.
Johannes Nickl is studying law at the University of Heidelberg since 2011. In 2013/2014, he spent a semester at KU Leuven, Belgium. He joined the HIIK in 2012 as a researcher in the working group "Sub-Saharan Africa" and became a member of the Board of Directors in 2014, where was first head of communications and is now chairperson of the finance and law department since 2015.
Katharina Müller is studying Sociology in her Bachelor's at the University of Heidelberg. She joined the HIIK 2021 as "HR Consultant" and has worked out the tasks of the new board position for human resources together with the board, as well as supporting the Departments for Communication and Finance and Law. Since April 2022, she has been a member of the board and chairs the Department for Human Resources.
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- Chairman
- Methodological Adviser
Katharina Valjak completed her B.A. in Political Science and her dual master's degree in Peace and Global Governance as well as International Relations. Currently, she works as an advisor for Eurasian affairs at the State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia. She has been with the HIIK since 2013 as a researcher for conflicts in Myanmar. Between 2017 and 2020, she was in charge of conflicts in Southeast Asia (Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia) as one of the Asia & Oceania regional heads. In May 2020, she became head of the methodology department.
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- University of Edinburgh, School of Social and Political Science
Leon Lewin studies Political Science and Anthropology in Heidelberg since 2017. After spending a gap year in South Africa, he is deeply interested in the research of political processes in Africa. Leon joined the HIIK in 2018 where he observes ongoing conflicts in Togo, Sierra Leone and Burkina Faso. In 2020 he became board member and head of the finance and law department.
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- International Peace Information Service, Antwerpen
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- Independent Political Consultant, Berlin
Magdalena Bauer (mbar), Cora Berner (cbe), Tilman Busch (tbu), Jan Deuter (jd), Antonia Foldes (afo), Pia Hansen (pih), Tamta Kalandarishvili (tka), Anne Koch (ako), Jonas Kratz (jkr), Jan Menzer (jme), Markus Christoph Müller (mcm), Viktoria Palm (vpa), Valentyna Polunina (vap), Judith Raisch (jra), Linda Raule (lra), Markus Sattler (msa), Christoph Schlemmer (csc), Laura Suhr (lsu), Emanuel Thaler (eth), Jakob Thaler (jth), Ines Tipura (iti), Damyana Veleva (dve), Linda Mareike Voigt (lmv), Benedikt Wimbauer (bew), Fabian Winker (fwi)
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- Chairman
- Editor - in - Chiefin
- Research Fellow at the Institute of Political Science
Marilena Geugjes is currently a PhD student and research fellow at the Institute of Political Science at Heidelberg University. From 2010 til 2016, she studied political science, economics, as well as English and German studies in Heidelberg and Brussels. She's been working for the HIIK's Sub-Saharan Africa working group since 2014. In April 2017, she became head of the editorial department.
Marit Braunschweig is a student of Political Science and Anthropology at Heidelberg University since 2017. International relations, as a sub-discipline of political sciences, is her main field of interest. Marit started as researcher for the Sub-Saharan Africa region in 2017 and became a head of the working group one year later. In early 2019 she became a member of the Board of Directors and chairperson of the finance and law department.
Marko Hermsen is a PhD student at the University of Heidelberg since 2015 in the area of Computational Catalysis. From 2010 to 2015, he studied Chemistry at RWTH Aachen University and spent a research stay abroad during his master studies 2014/15 at MIT in Cambridge, MA, USA. He joined the HIIK in 2016 working in the regional group "Asia & Oceania" and the IT department. Since April 2017 he is a Member of the Board of Directors and chairperson of the IT department.
Maximilian Brien studied economics in his bachelor's degree at the University of Heidelberg. He joined HIIK in 2018 as a researcher for conflicts in Mexico in the regional Working Group ‘Conflicts in the Americas', of which he became a head in 2019. In 2020 he became a member of the board and is the head of the editing department and Co-Editor in Chief of the Conflict Barometer 2020.
Maximilian Orth studied political science and psychology in his bachelor's degree at the University of Heidelberg. Currently he's working for a consulting firm in Berlin. He has been with HIIK since 2017 as an editor for conflicts in Kazakhstan. In 2018, he became regional head for conflicts in Central Asia and India. Since May 2020 he has been a member of the board of directors and head of the Communications Committee.
Mayely Müller is a master student of Peace and Conflict Studies at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg. She completed her Bachelor in Anthropology and Public Law at Heidelberg University. In November 2015, she joined the HIIK as a researcher for the working group "Asia and Oceania" which she was heading from 2017 to 2019. Since April 2018, she became a member of the board of directors and chairperson of the communication department.
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- Chairman
- Member of the Board of Directors
Michael Hebeisen has been a member of the Board of Directors since April 2019 and is head of the editorial department.
Oliver Adrian, Sarah Berberich, Renate Berger, Adrian Boos, Fiona Byrne, David Epp, Tim Glawion, Josephine Günther, Norman Günther, András Hettyey, Natalie Hoffmann, Bettina Hornbach, Annette Kappler, Steffen Kassner, Julia Kronberg, Milena Luidl, Lotta Mayer, Alena Mehlau, Sonja Meyer, Lea Manjana Pecht, Franziska Rau, Rüdiger Schwarz, Bastian Specht, Dominik Thierfelder, Joram von der Osten-Sacken, Franziska Wehinger
Paul Dießelberg studies law and philosophy in Munich, where he focuses on international law and international conflict resolution, and previously studied international relations in Washington, D.C. In 2019, he became part of the HIIK West Africa and Sahel Regional Group, researching since then especially on conflicts in Mali, and took over the regional group leadership in early 2021. Since 2023, he has been a member of the board and leads the committee for content and editorial work as Co-Editor-in-Chief.
Pauline Anton (pan), Felix Bings (fmb), Jan Deuter (jd), Aurélie Domisse (ado), Jonas Driedger (jdr), Antonia Foldes (afo), Pia Hansen (pih), Tamta Kalandarishvili (tka), Marion Kipiani (mak), Jonas Kratz (jkr), Mauriciode Moraes
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- Centro De Investigación Y Docencia Económicas, Mexico City
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- Professor Emeritus for International Relations at the University of Heidelberg
Rafael Uribe-Neira was elected as head of the Data Management Department and Co-Editor-in-Chief in Spring 2023. He joined the HIIK monitoring conflict in Mexico and the U.S in 2020. In 2022, he assumed the position of Regional Group Leader for Brazil, Venezuela and the Caribbean. Rafael studied German as foreign language (B.A.) at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and M.A. Peace and Conflict Studies at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg. Currently, he is enrolled at the M.A. Peace and Security Studies at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg. His professional interests lie in the field of Security Sector Reform (SSR), maritime security and post-conflict peace building.
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- Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
- Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, Washington
Ronja Gottschling completed her B.A. in Political Science and her M.A. in South Asian Studies. She joined the HIIK in 2016 as a researcher for conflicts in India. Since 2017, she is one of the heads of the regional working group Asia & Oceania, in charge of conflicts in Pakistan and India. In June 2019, she became a member of the Board of Directors, responsible for data management.
Ruben Ilyas is a student of Chemistry since 2013 and additionally studies economics since 2017 at the University of Heidelberg. He joined the HIIK in 2017, working in the regional group MENA and the IT department.
Since April 2019 he is a member of the Board of Directors and chairperson of the IT department.
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- London School of Economics, London
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- Head of the Communications Department
Sara Engelberg is a student of Political Science and Psychology at the University of Heidelberg since 2012 and spent an academic year abroad at Heidelberg University, OH, USA. Since 2014, she is a member of the communications and editorial department and became head of the working group "The Americas" and the chairperson of the communications department in 2015.
Sarah Westedt completed her Bachelor's degree in History and English Studies and her Master's degree in Global History at Heidelberg University. She is currently doing a Master's in international relations at King's College London. She joined the HIIK in 2020 and has been responsible for the conflicts in Haiti from 2020-2022. Since April 2022, she has been a member of the board and Head of the IT Department and starting this year a regional group leader in the region of the Americas
Sebastian Sieber studied Political Science, Sociology, and Conflict Studies at the Universities of Heidelberg and Augsburg since 2009. He joined the HIIK in 2011 as a researcher in the working group "Sub-Saharan Africa", which he is heading since 2016. The same year he became chairperson of the finance and law department.
Simeon Heimburg is a student of International Studies/Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Frankfurt and joined HIIK in 2021. After one year as a researcher on conflicts on the Maldives and Papua New Guinea, he became regional head in the WANA region for the countries of Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, and Palestine. Since 2023, he has been a member of the Board of Directors and chairs the Finance and Legal Committee.
Stella Wancke received her bachelor's degree in American Studies from Heidelberg University, Germany in 2010 and studied abroad at Heidelberg University, OH, USA. She started her master's degree in Political Science in 2014. She has been a member of the working group "Conflicts in the Americas" since 2012 and started co-heading it in 2013. In 2014, she became a Member of the Boards of Directors and the editor in chief of the Conflict Barometer.
Sven Eckstein is a student of Economics at the University of Heidelberg and working for the HIIK since 2012. Currently he is attending Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona and is a researcher of the working group "Conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa". He became a Member of the Board of Directors in 2014 and is the chairperson of the finance and law department.
Timo Werth is studying Political Science and History at the University of Heidelberg since 2013. From 2015 to 2016 he studied Political Sciences and International Relations at Sciences Po Paris. In 2014, he started working at the HIIK as a researcher for conflicts in Africa as well as the Middle East and Maghreb. Since 2015, he is Head of the Working Group "Middle East and Maghreb", and in April 2016 he became chairperson of the editorial department.
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- Chairman
- Methodological Adviser
Since 2013, Vincent Stüber has been studying Political Science, History and Psychology at the University of Heidelberg. From 2015 to 2016, he spent an academic year at the Pontifical Xavierian University in Bogotá, Colombia. In 2014, he started working at the HIIK as a researcher for conflicts in the Middle East Northern Africa (MENA) region. Since 2016, he has been head of the MENA working group. In April 2017, he became chairperson of the methodology department.