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Europe

Dr. Tobias Becker
Associate Professor for History

Department of History and Cultural Studies
Friedrich Meinecke Institute of History

Koserstr. 20, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Contemporary History
  • Cultural history
  • Urban history (especially Berlin)
  • History of popular culture (19th and 20th century)
  • History of Great Britain
  • Nostalgia
  • Public History

Dr. Giulio Busi
Professor of Jewish Studies

Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute of Jewish Studies

Fabeckstraße 23-25, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Beginning of anti-Semitism in the Middle Ages
  • The Pope
  • History of Jewish mysticism
  • Jewish culture in late antiquity and the early modern period
  • Situation of the Jewish population during the German occupation of Italy
  • History of the Jewish religion and ethics from antiquity to the present
  • Italy: Cultural heritage

Dr. Tanja Börzel
Jean Monnet Chair and Director of the Center for European Integration

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Center for European Integration

Ihnestr. 22, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Treaties of Rome
  • EU enlargement
  • European environmental policy
  • Institutional structure under the Treaty of Lisbon
  • EU Presidency
  • “EU foreign affairs”

Dr. Tim Conrad
Professor of Medical Bioinformatics

Zuse Institute Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Bioinformatics
  • Proteomics
  • Omics
  • Data science
  • Biological networks
  • Big data
  • Smart data
  • Liquid biopsy
  • Analysis of biological mass data

Dr. Miriam Flickinger
Professor of Business Administration

School of Business & Economics
Department of Management

Garystr. 21, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Top management teams
  • Executive boards, supervisory boards
  • CEO compensation
  • Management
  • Leadership

Boris Ginzburg

Institute for East European Studies
Politics

Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin

Please note

Interviews are also possible in Russian language

Areas of Expertise

  • post-Soviet region / Russia, Belarus and Ukraine
  • German-Russian relations
  • political impact of sanctions on autocracies
  • Non-systemic opposition in Russia
  • organized crime in the post-Soviet space
  • Israeli foreign policy

Sabine Greiner

Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Center for Italian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin

Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Italy-related educational opportunities and economic relations in Germany
  • Italian education and higher education policy

Theocharis Grigoriadis, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics

School of Business & Economics
Institute for East European Studies
Economics

Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Comparative economic systems
  • Economic history
  • Political economics
  • Development assistance

Dr. Gülistan Gürbey
Professor of Political Science

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science

Ihnestr. 22, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Turkey
  • Cyprus
  • Kurds
  • Iraq
  • Integration
  • Middle East
  • Kurdish conflict
  • Cyprus conflict
  • Relations between Turkey and the EU
  • German-Turkish relations
  • Relations between Turkey and Greece
  • Kurds in northern Iraq
  • Turkish foreign and security policy
  • Turkish domestic politics
  • Migration and integration policy – Germany / EU

Johannes Heß

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Gender and Diversity Division

Boltzmannstr. 20, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Nationalism
  • Gender and nationalism
  • Secessionist movements
  • Transgender Studies with a focus on nationalism and border demarcation

Sebastian Hoppe

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for East European Studies
Department of Political Science

Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • political economy of Russia, especially economic, infrastructure and resource policies
  • politics and economy in the Russian Far East
  • Russian-Chinese relations
  • regime dynamics and social mobilization in Russia and Ukraine

Dr. Agnieszka Hudzik

Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies

Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin

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Areas of Expertise

  • Theories of literature
  • Representations of community in literature and contemporary art
  • German-Polish literary and cultural relations

Dr. Swen Hutter
Professor of Political Sociology

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Sociology
Political Sociology

Garystrasse 55, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Social movements
  • Protest
  • Political parties
  • Right-wing populism
  • Civil society
  • Europe

Dr. Oliver Janz
Professor of History

Department of History and Cultural Studies
Friedrich Meinecke Institute

Koserstr. 20, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • History of World War I
  • History of Italy in the 19th and 20th centuries

Dr. Anna Karla
Professor of Modern History

Department of History and Cultural Studies
Friedrich-Meinecke-Institute
Modern History

Koserstraße 20, 14195 Berlin

Please note

Interviews are also possible in French.

Areas of Expertise

  • Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries
  • Revolutions
  • First World War
  • Weimar Republic
  • France

Tobias Klee

John F. Kennedy Institute
History

Boltzmannstraße 20, Berlin 14195

Areas of Expertise

  • Gender history
  • History of imperialism
  • Spanish colonialism
  • Catalan nationalism

Professor of Sociology Sebastian Kohl

John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Department of Sociology

Lansstr. 7-9, 14195 Berlin

Please note

Interviews are also possible in French.

Areas of Expertise

  • Housing policy
  • Housing market
  • Insurance market
  • Finance

Dr. Cordula Lemke
Professor of English Language and Literature

Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute for English Language and Literature

Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • English literature of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries
  • European colonialism (especially Scotland)
  • Gender studies
  • Vampires in literature and film

Dr. Judith Meinschaefer
Professor of Linguistics

Department of Philosophie and Humanities
Institute of Romance Languages and Literatures
Gallo-Roman Linguistics

Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Linguistics
  • Romance languages (French, Italian, Spanish)
  • Languages in France

Dr. Johannes Niehoff-Panagiotidis
Professor of Balkan Studies

Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of Greek and Latin Languages and Literatures

Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Balkans, especially Greece and Cyprus
  • Religion in the Balkans
  • Religion in the Middle East
  • Jews in the Balkans
  • Relationship between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Dr. Miltos Pechlivanos
Professor of Greek Studies

Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of Greek and Latin Languages and Literatures

Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Modern Greek studies
  • Modern Greek literature and cultural history

Professor of Law Bettina Rentsch

Department of Law
Civil Law
Junior Professor for Civil Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law

Boltzmannstr. 3, 14195 Berlin

Please note

Interviews are possible in English, German and French.

Areas of Expertise

  • Private international law
  • International civil procedure
  • Harmonization of European private law
  • Corporate law
  • Social theory in business/corporate law
  • Anti-Semitism in private law
  • Feminist theory and private law

Professor of Law Bettina Rentsch

Department of Law
Civil Law
Junior Professor for Civil Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law

Boltzmannstr. 3, 14195 Berlin

Please note

Interviews are possible in English, German and French.

Areas of Expertise

  • Private international law
  • International civil procedure
  • Harmonization of European private law
  • Corporate law
  • Social theory in business/corporate law
  • Anti-Semitism in private law
  • Feminist theory and private law

Dr. Julia Reuschenbach

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science
Center for Political Sociology of Germany

Ihnestraße 21, Berlin 14195

Areas of Expertise

  • Election and party research
  • Political communication and political culture
  • German contemporary history after 1945
  • politics of history and culture of memory
  • political science teaching at universities

Dr. Michaela Sambanis
Professor of English Didactics

Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute for English Language and Literature

Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

Language, Emotion and Movement

  • Translational research as a link between brain research and the practice of teaching and learning foreign languages

Drama Pedagogy in Teaching English and in Teacher Training

  • Early acquisition of foreign languages
  • Mixed-age learning settings
  • English instruction tailored to specific individual needs

Dr. Susanne Scharnowski

Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of German and Dutch Languages and Literatures
Cultural Studies Program for International Exchange Students

Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Debates about the concept of “Heimat”
  • German regional literature and films
  • “Heimat” and propaganda
  • “Heimat” and criticism of progress
  • “Heimat” vs. environment
  • “Heimat” as a European phenomenon
  • International student exchange (international students in the German school system)

Dr. Ralf Schlechtweg-Jahn

Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of German and Dutch Languages and Literatures
Medieval German Literature and Linguistics

Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • German literature of the Middle Ages
  • Literary theory, especially narratology
  • Religion in medieval literature
  • Power and violence in medieval literature
  • Medieval reception
  • Computer games

Dr. Johanna Schnabel

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science
Research Unit Political System of the Federal Republic of Germany

Ihnestraße 22, 14195 Berlin

Please note

Interviews are also possible in French

Areas of Expertise

  • Federalism (Germany, Switzerland, Canada, Australia, USA, Belgium)
  • Cooperation between federal and state governments
  • Education policy
  • Fiscal policy
  • Corona pandemic

Dr. Alexander Schunka
Professor of History

Department of History and Cultural Studies
Friedrich Meinecke Institute of History
Early Modern History

Koserstraße 20, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Early modern history
  • History of religion
  • Cultural history
  • German history
  • European history
  • British history
  • Historical research on migration / historical research on mobility
  • History of cultural transfer / exchange processes (e.g., Christianity / Islam)
  • History of resources (water)

Dr. Max Steinhardt
Professor of Economics

John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Department of Economics

Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Economics of the labor market 
  • Political economics 
  • Economics of migration
  • Integration and migration
  • U.S. economic policy 

Dr. Anita Traninger
Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures

Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of Romance Languages and Literatures

Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Rhetoric (history, theory, practice)
  • University History
  • Media History and New Media
  • Gender Studies
  • Global Literature
  • Spanish Literature
  • French Literature

Dr. Jochen Töpfer

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for East European Studies
Division of Sociology

Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Social, political, and economic aspects of the transformation processes in Eastern Europe
  • Emphasis on southeastern Europe / former Yugoslavia / Albania
  • Privatization
  • Informality and neo-feudalism
  • Parties and political elites
  • Sociology of religion: structures, actors, processes
  • Religion and society
  • Religion and politics
  • Religion and conflict

Dr. Sabine von Oppeln

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science

Ihnestraße 22, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • European Union
  • German and French European policy
  • German-French relations
  • Comparative politics in France and Germany