Forschungsprojekte | GIGA Institut für Afrika-Studien

Contested Leadership in International Relations – Power Politics in South America, Eastern Europe, Asia and sub-Saharan Africa

VolkswagenStiftung, Schumpeter Fellowship | 2010 - 2019

Do Diasporas Contribute to the Persistence of Authoritarian Rule? Responses of Eritrean citizens abroad to transnational governance

German Research Foundation (DFG) | 2018 - 2020

Experimental Research on Local Governance in Burkina Faso (REGLAB)

World Bank, Government of Burkina Faso | 2014 - 2021

Impact Evaluation of Out-grower Schemes in Ghana

Common Fund for Commodities | 2016 - 2021

International Diffusion and Cooperation of Authoritarian Regimes - IDCAR-Network

Leibniz Competition | 2014 - 2019

Landscape-Level Assessment of the Ecological and Socio-Economic Functions of Rainforest Transformation Systems in Sumatra (Indonesia)

German Research Foundation (DFG), part of CRC 990 (project B10) | 2016 - 2019

Large-Scale Land Acquisitions: Data, Patterns, Impacts, and Policies

Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), European Commission | 2013 - 2018

Mitigating Trade-offs between Economic and Ecological Functions and Services through Certification

German Research Foundation (DFG), part of CRC 990 (project C04) | 2016 - 2019

Performance and Dynamics of Micro and Small Firms in Developing Countries

| 2015 - 2018

Poverty, Social Mobility, and the Middle Class: The Case of South Africa

GIGA Research Platform South Africa, Evangelisches Studienwerk e.V. (Villigst) | 2016 - 2018

Religion and Conflict: On the Ambivalence of Religious Factors in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East

Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) , German Israeli Foundation | 2008 - 2018

The (In)stability of Presidential Term Limits in Africa and Latin America: Assessing the Impact of Tenure-Rule Reforms on the Political Regime

German Research Foundation (DFG) | 2017 - 2020

The Influence of Religion on Sustainable Development

Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) | 2015 - 2018

The Termination of International Sanctions: Causes, Processes and Domestic Consequences

German Research Foundation (DFG) | 2018 - 2021

West African Traders as Translators Between Chinese and African Urban Modernities

German Research Foundation (DFG) | 2013 - 2019