Supervisors

GIGA core staff | Other Supervisors

The GIGA is a non-university research institute. It cannot award the doctoral degree but cooperates closely with different universities. Our doctoral students enrol at the university that their first supervisor is affiliated with. Each university has its own doctoral degree regulations, which determine the admission requirements, course of study, and graduation procedure.

GIGA core staff

Contact Area of Expertise

Prof. Dr. Matthias Basedau

Director of the GIGA Institute of African Affairs
Editor GIGA Focus Africa
matthias.basedau@giga-hamburg.de
  • Resources conflicts
  • Religion and violent conflict
  • Civil-military relations
  • Political institutions

Prof. Dr. Sandra Destradi

Lead Research Fellow
Head of RP 4
sandra.destradi@giga-hamburg.de
  • India’s foreign and security policy
  • International Relations in South Asia

Prof. Dr. Erich Gundlach

Professorship
erich.gundlach@giga-hamburg.de
  • International productivity differences
  • global transitions

Prof. Dr. Bert Hoffmann

Head GIGA Berlin Office
Senior Research Fellow
bert.hoffmann@giga-hamburg.de
  • Head of the GIGA Berlin Office
  • Transnational migration and diaspora policies
  • EU-Latin America Relations
  • Cuba's Transformation: Crisis, Continuity and Change in Socialist Cuba

Prof. Dr. Heike Holbig

Senior Research Fellow
Editor GIGA Focus Asia
heike.holbig@giga-hamburg.de
  • The politics of the People‘s Republic of China
  • Comparative research into authoritarianism
  • Asia-related area studies

Prof. Dr. Patrick Köllner

Vice President
Director of the GIGA Institute of Asian Studies
patrick.koellner@giga-hamburg.de
  • Formal and informal institutions
  • Political parties and organizations

Prof. Dr. Sabine Kurtenbach

Senior Research Fellow
General Editor GIGA Focus
Editor GIGA Focus Global
sabine.kurtenbach@giga-hamburg.de
  • Postwar Societies
  • Violence and Social change
  • Youth

Apl. Prof. Dr. Jann Lay

Head of RP 3
jann.lay@giga-hamburg.de
  • Economy
  • development

Prof. Dr. Tobias Lenz

Senior Research Fellow
Head of Leibniz Junior Research Group
tobias.lenz@giga-hamburg.de
  • International and regional governmental organizations in comparative perspective
  • EU in global regionalism
  • Diffusion theories

Prof. Dr. Amrita Narlikar, D.Phil. (Oxon), Ph.D. (Cantab)

President
amrita.narlikar@giga-hamburg.de
  • International Trade
  • International Negotiation
  • World Trade Organization
  • Geoeconomics
  • Rising Powers
  • BRICS, especially India

Other supervisors

Name and Contact Area of Expertise

Prof.  Dr. Thorsten Bonacker

thorsten.bonacker@uni-marburg.de

Theories and Methods of Peace and Conflict Studies, Sociology of International Relations

Prof. Dr. Anita Engels

Anita.Engels@uni-hamburg.de

Globalization, environment and society

Prof. Dr. Anja Jetschke

sekretariat.jetschke@sowi.uni-goettingen.de

Comparative Regionalism, Transitional Justice

Prof. Dr. Cord Jakobeit

cord.jakobeit@uni-hamburg.de

International relations, regional powers

Prof. Dr. Andreas Lange

Andreas.Lange@wiso.uni-hamburg.de

Public Economics, Environmental Economics, Experimental and Behavioral Economics

Prof. Dr. Andreas Mehler

andreas.mehler@giga-hamburg.de

Power-sharing after peace agreements, Violent conflicts and conflict prevention, State and statehood, democratization processes, German and French Africa policy

Prof. Dr. Dirk Nabers

nabers@ips.uni-kiel.de

Peace and conflict studies

Prof. Dr. Julia Pauli

julia.pauli@uni-hamburg.de

Culture and Demography, Gender, Kinship, Transnationalism

Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Schnapp

kai-uwe.schnapp@uni-hamburg.de

Quantitative Analysis, economics and politics of institutions

Prof. Antje Wiener, PhD AcSS

glob-gov.WiSo@uni-hamburg.de

Global Governance, Global Constitutionalism

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