HIIK Staff

Board of Directors

	Name	short CV	E-Mail
	Stephan Giersdorf	Stephan Giersdorf studied Political Science, Public Law, and Political Science South Asia in Heidelberg, Germany, and at the National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore. Currently, he is lecturer at the Institute of Political Science, Head of the Working Group "Asia and Oceania" of the HIIK and since 2011 Member of the Board. In his doctoral dissertation he compares the function of civil society in Malaysia and Singapore since independence.	giersdorf@hiik.de
	Dominik Hattrup	Dominik Hattrup studied Political Science, Economics, Philosophy, and Psychology in Mannheim, Heidelberg, Madrid and Hamburg. Dominik joined the HIIK in 2008, becoming Head of the Working Group "Conflicts in Europe" in 2010. Since 2011 Dominik is part of the HIIK Board.	hattrup@hiik.de
	Natalie Hoffmann	Natalie Hoffmann is working for the HIIK since 2009, since 2010 as part of the Board of Directors and Head of the Working Group "Sub-Saharan Africa". She is studying at the University of Heidelberg since 2005, since 2007 Political Science and Religious Studies.	natalie. hoffmann@hiik.de
	Patrick Rueppel	Patrick Rüppel studied Geography, Political Science, and Sociology in Heidelberg. Currently he works as the Progam Manager of the EU-Project "EU-Asia Dialogue" for the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Singapore. Since 2009, he is member of the Working Group "Asia and Oceania" and since 2011 Member of the Board.	rueppel@hiik.de
	Christoph Trinn	Christoph Trinn, born in 1979, studied History and Philosophy in London and Political Science, Religious Studies, Public Law, and English Linguistics in Heidelberg. He is lecturer at the Institute for Political Science of the University of Heidelberg, member of the CONIS Group, Head of the HIIK Working Group "Asia and Oceania" and since 2011 Member of the Board. Currently he works on his doctoral dissertation analyzing system-theoretical and socio-physical perspectives on intra-state conflicts.	trinn@hiik.de

Patron

Prof. Dr. Frank R. Pfetsch

Emeritiertus Professor for International Relations at the University of Heidelberg

frank.pfetsch@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de

Leading Staff

Name	Position	E-Mail
Fiona Byrne, Simon Ellerbrock, Thea Gutschke and Marcus Weber	Heads of the Working Group "Conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa"	byrne@hiik.de, ellerbrock@hiik.de, gutschke@hiik.de, weber@hiik.de
Felix Bings, Lars Dittrich and Lukas Welz	Heads of the Working Group "Conflicts in Europe"	bings@hiik.de, dittrich@hiik.de, welz@hiik.de
Peter Hachemer, Heiko Flink and Laura Schelenz	Heads of the Working Group "Conflicts in the Americas"	hachemer@hiik.de, Flink@hiik.de, schelenz@hiik.de
Jason Franz, Henning Katzmann, Henrik Rubner and Imran Syed	Heads of the Working Group "Conflicts in Asia and Oceania"	franz@hiik.de, katzmann@hiik.de, rubner@hiik.de, syed@hiik.de
Yasemin Altintop, Tanja Eschenauer, Florian Rühl and Simon Ullrich	Heads of the Working Group "Conflicts in the Middle East and Maghreb"	altintop@hiik.de, eschenauer@hiik.de, ruehl@hiik.de, ullrich@hiik.de
Natalie Hoffmann, Bastian Herre, Peter Hachemer, Laura Schelenz, Christoph Trinn and Thomas Wencker	Chief editors "Conflict Barometer 2011"	redaktionsleitung@hiik.de

Staff 2011

Sub-Saharan Africa

Stephan Adolphy (sad), Sarah Berberich (sab), Nina Bernarding (nbe), Claire Born (clb), Fiona Byrne (fb), Simon Ellerbrock (sel), Tim Glawion (tg), Thea Gutschke (thg), Josephine Günther (jog), Simone Habel (sha), Julia Held (jhe), Sophie Hermann-Jung (shj), Natalie Hoffmann (nch), Bettina Hornbach (bh), Annette Kappler (kaa), Henning Katzmann (hka), Christopher Keller (cke), Milena Luidl (mlu), Heidrun Lotta Mayer (hlm), Alena Mehlau (am), Sonja Meyer (som), Birgit Kirsten Müllner (bkm), Lea Manjana Pecht (lmp), Joost Punstein (jpu), Franziska Rau (fr), Paul Schaudt (psc), Ginger Schmitz (gsz), Rüdiger Schwarz (rs), Sebastian Sieber (ses), Dominik Thierfelder (dt), Marcus Weber (mwe), Franziska Wehinger (fw)

The Americas

Jenny Vera Franziska Abel (jva), Sebastian Beckmann (seb), Peter Hachemer (peh), Francisco Borrero Londono (fbl), Ira Dorband (ird), Leonie Ederli Fickinger (lef), Heiko Flink (hef), Johanna Kleffmann (jok), Andre Koelln (ank), Michael Männel (mgm), Lucía Galeano Nunez (lug), Melanie Quintero (meq), Kirsten Caroline Rauch (kcr), Laura Schelenz (las), Nicole Schmidt (nms), Aleksandra Sreckovic (als), Jannik Stemler (js), Stefan Tominski (stt)

Asia and Oceania

Konstantin Axt (axt), Johannes Le Blanc (jlb), Kristin Bleyder (kbl), Shamila Borchers (sbo), Jan Deuter (jd), Vanessa Elges (ve), Jason Franz (jfr), Arthur Garifullin (aga), Stephan Giersdorf (sg), Liza von Grafenstein (lgr), Janina Hirth (jah), Verena Kausche (vk), Hannah Laubenthal (hal), Philip Lorenz (plo), Sonja Meyer (som), Simon Philipps (sip), Julia Reimers (jr), Jan Rejeski (jre), Nikolaus Rentrop (nr), Linus Rob (lr), Elisabeth Rowley (er), Henrik Rubner (hru), Moritz Rudolf (mr), Patrick Rüppel (prü), David Schenke (dsc), Caja Schleich (cs), Lars Stöwesand (ls), Imran Syed (isy), Christoph Trinn (ct), Thomas Wencker (thw), Matthias Wiegand (mw), Maximilian Würfel (mfu), Alexey Yusupov (ayu)

Europe

Kerim Aissa (ka), Jana Allenberg (jb), Felix Bings (fmb), Jan Deuter (jd), Adrian Dincher (ad), Lars Dittrich (ld), Johanna Engelhardt (joe), Dominik Hattrup (dh), Stefan Hein (sth), Florian Hildebrandt (fph), Katharina Horn (kh), Moritz Kaul (mk), Marion Kipiani (mak), Alen Knuth (akn), Jana Maria Kuehnl (jak), Elena-Loredana Ocenic (elo), Manuela Peitz (map), Nathalie Pogoda (np), Felicitas Schenck (fes), Tobias Schopper (ts), Lukas Welz (lw), Katharina Wuropulos (kwu)

Middle East and Maghreb

Yasemin Altintop (yal), Sara García Artegoitia (sag), Daniel Church (dac), Sina El-Bosely (skb), Sheherazade Elyazidi (sel), Tanja Eschenauer (et), Christian Flittner (cf), Chiara Guccione (cg), Bastian Herre (ba), Florian Hönigschmid (fhö), Ruben Limon Kindel (rl), Magdalena Kirchner (mki), Fabian Klein (fk), Miriam Kurz (mku), Valentin Lang (val), Hendrick Lehmann (hl), Michael Nissler (mni), Eva Oliveira (eol), Selina Peter (sep), Florian Rühl (flor), Maren Sass (mass), Vera Seidel (vs), Anna Sunik (asu), Simon Ullrich (sul), Inna Veleva (iv)