| Name | Short CV | |
| Maximilian Brien | 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. | brien@hiik.de |
| Eduard Ebert | 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. | ebert@hiik.de |
| Giacomo Köhler | 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. | koehler@hiik.de |
| Leon Lewin | 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. | lewin@hiik.de |
| Maimilian Orth | 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. | orth@hiik.de |
| Katharina Valjak | 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. | valjak@hiik.de |
Email to the Board of Directors: vorstand@hiik.de
| Name | Position | |
| Nathalie Brügger, Thomas Cranshaw, Hanna Grininger, Tatiana Valyaeva, Damyana Veleva | Heads of the Working Group “Conflicts in Europe” | europa@hiik.de |
| Kathrin Baumann, Enrico Behne, Marit Braunschweig, Marilena Geugjes, Richard Krauel, Mika Müller-Popkes, Lisa Waldheim | Heads of the Working Group “Conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa” | afrika@hiik.de |
| Raphael Bodewig, Maximilian Brien, Ana Jimena Gonzalez, Franziska Gottwald | Heads of the Working Group “Conflicts in the Americas” | amerika@hiik.de |
| Ilsa Hameed, Maximilian Henning, Leon Jamann, Julian Klose, Giacomo Köhler, Stephanie Verlaan | Heads of the Working Group “Conflicts in Asia and Oceania” | asien@hiik.de |
| Yasmin Al-Douri, Mostafa Bostani, Iman Hamdy, Anina Harter, Jannik Mertens, Martin Webeler | Heads of the Working Group “Conflicts in West Asia, North Africa and Afghanistan” | vmo@hiik.de |
| Yasmin Al-Douri, Philipp Engstler, Ronja Gottschling, Katja Größchen, Jonas Enrique Gutschke, Anina Harter, Michael Hebeisen, Franziska Linke, Mayely Müller, Markus Christoph Müller, Maximilian Orth, Vincent Stüber, Emil Unrath, Tatiana Valyaeva, Damyana Veleva, Lisa Waldheim, Martin Webeler, Timo Werth | Editorial board of the “Conflict Barometer 2020” | redaktionsleitung@hiik.de |
| Maximilian Brien, Giacomo Köhler | Editors-in-Chief | brien@hiik.de, koehler@hiik.de |
| Katharina Valjak | Methodological Adviser | valjak@hiik.de |
| Lars Kumbier | Technical Support | lars@kumbier.it |
| Timo Werth | Confidant | werth@hiik.de |
| Names | Departments | |
| Yasmin Al-Douri, Iman Hamdy, Mika Müller-Popkes, Franziska Gottwald, Raphael Bodewig, Tatiana Valyaeva, Julian Klose | Communication
Chairperson: Maximilian Orth |
kommunikation@hiik.de |
| Yasmin Al-Douri, Iman Hamdy, Ilsa Hameed, Richard Krauel, Damyana Veleva |
Editorial
Chairperson: Maximilian Brien |
redaktion@hiik.de |
| Christopher Becker, Tamara Gupper, Ruben Ilyas | IT
Chairperson: Eduard Ebert |
technik@hiik.de |
|
Leon Jamann, Lisa Waldheim, Jannik Mertens, Mostafa Bostani, Hannah Brandt, Nathalie Brügger
|
Methodology
Chairperson: Katharina Valjak |
methodik@hiik.de |
| Anina Harter, Marit Braunschweig | Finances & Law
Chairperson: Leon Lewin |
finanzen@hiik.de |
| Maximilian Henning, Kathrin Baumann, Hanna Grininger, Stephanie Verlaan, Ana Gonzalez | Data management
Chairperson: Giacomo Köhler |
datenmanagement@hiik.de |
Europe
Heads of Working Group:
Nathalie Brügger (nbr), Thomas Cranshaw (tcr), Hanna Grininger (hgr), Tatiana Valyaeva (tav), Damyana Veleva (dve)
Benjamin Balzer (bba), Julia Barandun (jub), Jan Hendrik Blaß (jhb), Simone Drews (sdr), Eduard Ebert (eeb), Paul Emtsev (pem), Nina Engelbracht (nie), Jason Franz (jfr), Jonas Krohn (jmk), Philip Lott (plo), Tijana Lujic (tlu), Markus Christoph Müller (mcm), Georgia Pantzai (gap), Clara Peckelhoff (clp), Sebastian Peter (spe), Christos Sotiriou (chs), Melina Topic (met), Caroline Trocka (ctr), Mina Trpkovic (mtr), Mario Zschinzsch (mzs)
Sub-Saharan Africa
Heads of Working Group:
Kathrin Baumann (kab), Enrico Behne (ebe), Marit Braunschweig (mab), Marilena Geugjes (mag), Richard Krauel (rkr), Mika Müller-Popkes (mmp), Lisa Waldheim (liw)
Cornelia Barth (cba), Louisa Beisel (lob), Roxanne van der Bliek (rvb), Svenja Brunkhorst (svb), Fiona Byrne (fb), Katharina Danisch (kda), Yannick Deepen (day), Claudia Denis (cde), Paul Diesselberg (pad), Anna Feiereisen (anf), Sabrina Gabel (sag), Clara Gehrling (cge), Marcel Geißler (mge), Magnus Gottl (mgo), Tamara Gupper (tgu), Noah Heinemann (noh), Vincent Hoppmann (vho), Levin Husen (lhu), Henrike Ilka (hil), Hellen Kachler (hek), Fynn Kaltenpoth (fyk), David Kerler (dke), Francesca Lenzi (frl), Leon Lewin (lel), Franziska Linke (fli), Tom Mamer (mat), Yvonne Merkel (yme), Mayely Müller (mmu), Jessica den Nelzen (jde), Luuk van Os (lvo), Kristina Pape (krp), Nikolaus Reeg (nre), Lukas Reimann (lre), Eileen Roth (ero), Tobias Schmitt (tms), Alisa Seufert (ase), Ethan Harrington Smith (eha), Miya Takada (mta), Thordis Weber (twe), Johanna Wecht (jwe), Jana Winter (jwi)
Americas
Heads of Working Group: Raphael Bodewig (rbo), Maximilian Brien (mbr), Ana Jimena Gonzalez (ago), Franziska Gottwald (fgo)
Charlotte Aebischer (cae), Prerna Ajwani (paj), Greta Blass (gbl), Citlalli Brauchle (cib), Leander von Detten (lvd), Sara Engelberg Joumaa (sen), Roemer Goes (gro), Astrid Hardeel (aha), Maximilian Herrmann (mah), Brenda Holz (bho), Jona Huber (jhu), Paul Kern (pke), Theresa Kofler (tk), Michael Männel (mgm), Santiago Moncada (smo), Linda Müller (lim), Tania Muscio, (tmu), Ainhoa Palomo Vegas (apv), Rebecca Rapp (rra), Samed Sahin (ssa), Milena Schellenberger (msc), Laura Schmittinger (lsc), Hans Stanka (hst), Rafael David Uribe Neira (run), Miriam Vogt (mvo), Sarah Westedt (swe), Mario Wolf (mwo), Anastasiia Zhuravlova (azh)
Asia & Oceania
Heads of Working Group: Ilsa Hameed (iha), Maximilian Henning (hen), Leon Jamann (lja), Julian Klose (jkl), Giacomo Köhler (gko), Stephanie Verlaan (stv)
Yasmine Amal (aya), Hagen Berning (hbe), Esther Brito (ebr), Konstantin Burudshiew (kbu), John Henry Bussey (jbu), Anton Dielschneider (adi), Sarah Engelsberger (sae), Philipp Engstler (pen), Lillie Hafner (lih), Luke Hally (lha), Jacob Heinck (jhk), Carla Heurtin (che), Mara Kiesle (mki), Kira Kreft (kmk), Emma Kunz (eku), Irene Lee (ile), Linda Liang (llg), Robin Lockyer-von Dorrien (rld), Annika Maretzki (ama), Maximilian Orth (mor), Jaeeun Paik (jpa), Susanne Pittelkow (spi), Laura Reis (lrs), Nicola Röhm (nrö), Ingrid Rooda (iro), Nina Kathrin Rösler (nro), Nita Schaub (nsc), Thomas Schmid (ths), Felix Scholl (fsc), Julia Schreiber (jsc), Hugo Sommer (hso), Katharina Valjak (kv), Sofie Vetter (sov), Joscha Wendland (jwl), Eleanor Wong (ewo), Fan Yin (fyn), Sidra Youssef (syo)
West Asia, North Africa and Afghanistan
Heads of Working Group: Yasmin Al-Douri (yad), Mostafa Bostani (mob), Iman Hamdy (imh), Anina Harter (aht), Jannik Mertens (jmr), Martin Webeler (mwe)
Siad Akkam (ska), Nico Arnold (nar), Veronika Babiciute (vba), Anna Becker (anb), Cara Bien (cbi), Eva Bitsch (ebi), Shila Block (sbl), Sonja Brede (sbr), Nicolas Butylin (nbu), Franziska Döring (frd), Lukas Eger (leg), Timo Eichhammer (twh), Volker Eing (voe), Helena Fabricius (hla), Michèle Fein (mif), Petra Freudenberger (pfr), Moritz Friedrich (mfr), Dastan Jasim (daj), Hamed Kazemzadeh (hkz), Natascha Koch (nko), Linda Krzikalla (krz), Johanna Landes (jol), Daniel Leichte (dal), Hannah Lilje (hal), Ali Maleki (alm), Leonard Metzler (lme), Sarah Pauly (sap), Marie-Lisa Schneider (mls), Daryna Sterina (dst), Benita Ukert (buk)
| Prof. Dr. Frank R. Pfetsch | Professor Emeritus for International Relations at the University of Heidelberg | frank.pfetsch@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de |
Review
| Dr. Nadine Ansorg | University of Kent, Kent | |
| Dr. André Bank | GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg | |
| Dr. Arvid Bell | Harvard University, Cambridge | |
| Prof. Dr. Joachim Betz | GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg | |
| Dr. Fabian Burkhardt | SWP German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin | |
| Dr. Paulo Gustavo Pellegrino Correa | Group of Advanced Studies on Conflicts in Guyana and the Caribbean, Federal University of Amapá, Macapá | |
| Juan Diego Duque Salazar | Uppsala University, Uppsala | |
| Dr. Angelica Duran-Martinez | University of Massachusetts, Lowell | |
| Dr. Lionel Fatton | Webster University, Geneva | |
| Kristin Fedeler | Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh | |
| Riccarda Flemmer | GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg | |
| Dr. Savaş Genç | University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg | |
| Kibreab Habtemichael | Mannheim Private Institute for Geopolitics, Mannheim | |
| Sami Hadaya | London School of Economics, London | |
| Dr. Jens Heibach | GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg | |
| Dr. Maria Josua | GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg | |
| Marc Julienne | Foundation for Strategic Research, Paris | |
| Benedikt Kamski | Arnold Bergstraesser Institute, University of Freiburg, Freiburg | |
| Dr. Adeeb Khalid | Carleton College, Northfield | |
| Dr. Magdalena Kirchner | Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Kabul, Afghanistan | |
| Dr. Carlo Koos | Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen | |
| Dr. Philipp Lottholz | Centre for Conflict Studies, Philipps-University of Marburg, Marburg | |
| Dr. Walter Lotze | United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) | |
| Lukasz Mackiewicz | GIZ German Corporation for Internatioal Coorperation, Berlin | |
| Dr. Aurora Madaula Giménez | University of Barcelona, Barcelona | |
| Dr. Lotta Mayer | University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal | |
| Nuha Mohamed | Central Bureau of Statistics, Khartoum, Sudan | |
| Dr. Elizabeth Monier | University of Cambridge, Cambridge | |
| Mallory Mroz-Kleedorfer | International Criminal Court | |
| Dr. Amit Mukherjee | National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore | |
| Prof. Dr. Ganesan Narayanan | Hiroshima Peace Institute, Hiroshima | |
| Dr. Carlos Flores Pérez | CIESAS, México, D.F. | |
| Dr. Josie-Marie Perkuhn | Christan-Albrecht-University of Kiel | |
| Dr. Indira Rampersad | University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago | |
| Dr. Dieter Reinisch | Institute for Advanced Study, Central European University, Budapest | |
| Dr. Dr. Roland Seib | Independent Scholar, Darmstadt | |
| Dr. David Shirk | University of San Diego, San Diego | |
| Dr. Clemens Spiess | Robert Bosch Foundation, Stuttgart | |
| Prof. Dr. Christoph Stefes | University of Colorado, Denver | |
| Dr. Yan St-Pierre | Modern Security Consulting Group, Berlin | |
| Dr. Julia Strasheim | Bundeskanzler Helmut Schmidt Stiftung, Hamburg | |
| Dr. Anna Sunik | GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg | |
| Dr. Pinar Tank | PRIO Peace Research Institute Oslo, Oslo | |
| Dr. Peter Thiery | Heidelberg University, Heidelberg | |
| Dr. Kressen Thyen | University of Bremen, Bremen | |
| Dr. Christoph Trinn | University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg | |
| Dr. Sead Turčalo | University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo | |
| Dr. Caroline Varin | Regent’s University London, London | |
| Dr. Judith Verweijen | University of Sheffield, Sheffield | |
| Christoph Vogel | University Zurich, Zurich | |
| Dr. Christian Wagner | SWP German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin | |
| Dr. Jonas Wolff | HSFK Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, Frankfurt | |
| Alexey Yusupov | Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Berlin | |
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