Staff

Areas of research: Power-sharing after peacebuilding, violent conflicts, crisis prevention, German and French politics in Africa

Regional focus: Central Africa, West Africa

E-mail: andreas.mehler [at] abi.uni-freiburg.de

Twitter: https://twitter.com/mehler_a

Position at ABI: Director

Areas of research: Regionalism, Development Policy

Regional focus: Southern Africa, SADC

E-mail: martin.adelmann [at] abi.uni-freiburg.de

Twitter: https://twitter.com/adelmann_m

Position at ABI: Executive Manager

Areas of research: Borderland Identities, Ambiguity in Migration and Refugee Governance, Gender and Intersectionality, Precarity, Transnationalism, Digital Diaspora, Social Costs of Migration, Climate Change & Displacement

Regional focus: South and Southeast Asia, Gulf States

E-mail: anas.ansar [at] abi.uni-freiburg.de

Position at ABI: Senior Researcher

Areas of research: Post- and decolonial theories, environmental conflicts, sociological theories, transregional power relations

Regional focus: Latin America (Argentina), Europe

E-mail: miriam.bartelmann [at] abi.uni-freiburg.de

Position at ABI: Doctoral Researcher

Areas of research: Ethnic and Religious Conflicts, Conflict Regulation, Transition and Democratization, Pentecostal Churches and Religious Movements, Political Role of Churches

Regional focus: Subsaharan Africa, esp. Chad, South Africa, Burundi

E-mail: helga.dickow [at] abi.uni-freiburg.de

Position at ABI: Senior Researcher, Coordination Cluster Conflict and Fragility

Areas of research: logistics, social movements, transregional authoritarian practices, transregional energy infrastructure policies, renewable energy

Regional focus: MENA region, Iraq, Jordan, the UAE, Lebanon, Syria

E-mail: elia.el.khazen [at] abi.uni-freiburg.de

Position at ABI: Doctoral Researcher

Areas of research: Conflict studies, local governance, urban violence and peace, security and borderlands, illegal markets, criminal governance

Regional focus: Latin America, emphasis on Colombia and El Salvador

E-mail: viviana.garcia.pinzon [at] abi.uni-freiburg.de

Twitter: https://twitter.com/vivigarciap

Position at ABI: Senior Researcher

Areas of research: Security studies, local governance, “fragile states”, development, Comparative Area Studies

Regional focus: Central African Republic, Lebanon, Haiti, Somaliland, South Sudan

E-mail: tim.glawion [at] abi.uni-freiburg.de

Twitter: https://twitter.com/timglawion

Position at ABI: Senior Researcher

Areas of research: urban violence, politics of infrastructure, authoritarian practices, political economy and decolonial approaches

Regional focus: Latin America (particularly Colombia, Mexico, Costa Rica)

E-mail: alke.jenss [at] abi.uni-freiburg.de

Position at ABI: Senior Researcher, Coordination Cluster Contested Governance

Areas of research: gender, human rights, and health in conflict, peacebuilding, and urban migration; governance and the ‘war on drugs’

Regional focus: Southeast Asia

E-mail: teresa.jopson [at] abi.uni-freiburg.de

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ani_risa

Position at ABI: Senior Researcher

Areas of research: Political Economy, Geopolitics, Industrialisation

Regional focus: Horn of Africa (esp. Ethiopia and Djibouti), Comoros and Seychelles

E-mail: benedikt.kamski [at] abi.uni-freiburg.de

Twitter: https://twitter.com/bekamski

Position at ABI: Senior Researcher

E-mail: bibliothek [at] abi.uni-freiburg.de

Position at ABI: Librarian

Areas of research: Restitution of cultural heritage, Public History, Memory politics

Regional focus: Africa, Europe

E-mail: richard.legay [at] abi.uni-freiburg.de

Position at ABI: Senior Researcher

Areas of research: Germany and the Middle East, Pan-Movements in the Middle East, Political Islam, Islam and Nationalism, Historical Aspects of the Cyprus Conflict

Regional focus: Middle East, Cyprus

E-mail: tilman.luedke [at] abi.uni-freiburg.de

Position at ABI: Senior Researcher

Areas of research: Global supply chains, energy politics, renewable energies, migration, transregional authoritarian practices

Regional focus: North Africa (specifically Morocco), Middle East, Europe

E-mail: charlotte.mueller [at] abi.uni-freiburg.de

Position at ABI: Doctoral Researcher

Areas of research: Development Policy, Disability Studies, Traditional Medicine

Regional focus: South Asia, India

E-mail: asianstudies [at] abi.uni-freiburg.de

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Position at ABI: Editorial Manager of the International Quarterly for Asian Studies

Areas of research: Global inequalities and South-South relations, natural resource conflicts and socio-ecological transitions, critical IR-theory

Regional focus: Latin America from a transregional perspective (China-Latin America-Europe)

E-mail: fabricio.rodriguez [at] abi.uni-freiburg.de

Twitter: https://twitter.com/fr_frodriguez

Position at ABI: Senior Researcher

Areas of research: external interventions and 'democracy promotion', transregional authoritarian practices, economic liberalisation, military collaboration, renewable energies

Regional focus: Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

E-mail: benjamin.schuetze [at] abi.uni-freiburg.de

Twitter: https://twitter.com/benschuetze86

Position at ABI: Senior Researcher & Emmy Noether Research Group Leader

E-mail: melanie.spoeri [at] abi.uni-freiburg.de

Position at ABI: Accounting, Administration

E-mail: sekretariat.abi [at] abi.uni-freiburg.de

Position at ABI: Science Communication, Assistant of the Director and Executive Management

Areas of research: renewable energy projects, transregional infrastructure policies, climate governance, democratisation processes, political participation

Regional focus: North Africa (especially Tunisia), Middle East

E-mail: philipp.wagner [at] abi.uni-freiburg.de

Position at ABI: Doctoral Researcher

Areas of research: Migration governance, refugee protection, migrant and refugee agency, peace processes, civil society

Regional focus: Africa

E-mail: franzisca.zanker [at] abi.uni-freiburg.de

Twitter: https://twitter.com/FranziscaZ

Position at ABI: Senior Researcher, Coordination Cluster Patterns of (Forced) Migration