Security (Terrorism, Public Safety, Natural Resources)
Dr. Helmut Philipp Aust
Professor of Law
Department of Law
Public Law
Van't-Hoff.-Str. 8, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- International law
- Human rights
- German and foreign constitutional law
Dr. David Bosold
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Graduate School of North American Studies
Lansstraße 5-9, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Canada
- Canada (energy policy)
- Canada (foreign and security policy)
- Canada (economic policy)
- Canada (Arctic policy)
Jannis Grimm
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science
INTERACT Center for Interdisciplinary Peace and Conflict Research
Altensteinstrasse 48, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Protest and social movements
- Civil society
- Radicalization and political violence
- Human rights violations and state violence
- Repression, surveillance, and authoritarianism
- North Africa
- Near/Middle East
- Democratization and social transformation
- Arab Spring
- Islamism
- Muslim Brotherhood
- Research ethics
- Safe field research
- Research conditions in authoritarian contexts
Dr. Hanns-Christian Gunga
Professor of Physiology
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Institute of Physiology
Center of Space Medicine
Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin
Phone (Office)
Phone (Assistant)
Areas of Expertise
- Special Forces and their performance
- Monitoring of Special Forces
- Respiratory protectors
- NBC suits
- Body fluids and gravity
- Salt in water content of the body
- Circulatory system
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. Markus Kienscherf
Professor of Sociology
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Department of Sociology
Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin
Phone (Office)
Homepage
Areas of Expertise
- Police in the United States
- Protests
- Social control
- Surveillance
- Counterinsurgency
- Political violence
Dr. Christine Knaevelsrud
Professor of Clinical Psychology
Department of Education and Psychology
Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy
Clinical-Psychological Intervention
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
Phone (Office)
Homepage
Areas of Expertise
- Psychological effects of war, torture, and civilian trauma
- Online therapy
Dr. Mirco Liefke
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for Media and Communication Studies
Department of Communication Policy and Media Economics
Garystraße 55, Berlin 14195
Areas of Expertise
- Public service broadcasting
- Transformation processes of digitalization
- Structural change of the public sphere
- New forms of the public sphere
- Journalism
- News journalism
- Television news
- crisis and conflict reporting
- cultural transformation
- Media change
- Innovative forms of journalism
- Interpretative methods of social research
- Ethnography
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
Phone (Office)
Phone (Home)
Homepage
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
Jürgen Schaflechner
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Landoltweg 9-11, 14195 Berlin
Please note
Interviews can be given in German, English, Urdu/Hindi
Areas of Expertise
- Pakistan
- Populism / religious populism
- Politics of resentment
- Religious minorities in Pakistan
- Blasphemy / blasphemy laws
- Forced conversions to Islam
- Popular culture in Pakistan
- Antisemitism in Pakistan
- Islam
- Hinduism
- Ethnology of religion
- Ritual journeys
Dr. Regine Schönenberg
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for Latin American Studies
Rüdesheimer Straße 54-56, 14197 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Organized crime
- Natural resource management
- Land management
- Intercultural learning
- Biography research
- Scenario research
Dr. Urs Matthias Zachmann
Professor of History and Culture of Modern Japan
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute of Japanese Studies
Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Culture and history of modern Japan
- Intellectual history of East Asia
- International relations of East Asia
- Relations between Japan and China
- Law in East Asia
- Human rights in East Asia
Dr. Michael Zürn
Professor of Political Science
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
c/o Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)
Reichpietschufer 50, 10785 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Global governance
- G8/G20 Summit
- EU treaties
- International organizations
- International legalization and international rule of law
- Rising powers / BRIC and ISA
- War and new forms of violence
- Peace
- Humanitarian intervention
- Transnational social movements
- NGOs
- Protest / resistance
- Ruling authority in an international system