Supervisors

Internal Supervisors | External 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 Supervisors

Contact Area of Expertise

Prof. Dr. Matthias Basedau

Lead Research Fellow
matthias.basedau@giga-hamburg.de
  • Resources conflicts
  • Religion and violent conflict
  • Civil-military relations
  • Political institutions

Prof. Dr. Henner Fürtig

Director of the GIGA Institute of Middle East Studies
Editor GIGA Focus Middle East
henner.fuertig@giga-hamburg.de
  • Domestic and foreign policy
  • social and political Transformation
  • democratisation
  • programs and structures of political Islam

Prof. Dr. Erich Gundlach

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

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hein

Senior Research Fellow
wolfgang.hein@giga-hamburg.de
  • Agriculture and development
  • technology and industrial Promotion
  • development theories
  • environmental problems, health

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. Anja Jetschke

Associate
sekretariat.jetschke@sowi.uni-goettingen.de
  • International Relations
  • Comparative Regionalism
  • Transitional Justice

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

Apl. Prof. Dr. Jann Lay

Acting Director of the GIGA Institute of African Affairs
Head of RP 3
jann.lay@giga-hamburg.de
  • Economy
  • development

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Tobias Lenz

Senior Research Fellow
Speaker Research Team
tobias.lenz@giga-hamburg.de
  • International and regional governmental organizations in comparative perspective
  • EU in global regionalism
  • Diffusion theories

Prof. Dr. Andreas Mehler

Lead Research Fellow
Associate
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. Amrita Narlikar, D.Phil. (Oxon), Ph.D. (Cantab)

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

Prof. Dr. Detlef Nolte

Director of the GIGA Institute of Latin American Studies
Editor GIGA Focus Latin America
detlef.nolte@giga-hamburg.de
  • Forms of government
  • developmental cooperation
  • EU-USA-LA relations

Current External Supervisors

Name and Contact Area of Expertise

Prof. Antje Wiener, PhD AcSS

wiener@wiso.uni-hamburg.de

Global Governance, Global Constitutionalism

Prof.  Dr. Thorsten Bonacker

thorsten.bonacker@uni-marburg.de

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

Prof. Dr. Michael Brzoska

brzoska@ifsh.de

Arms control, arms trade, internal conflicts, security sector reforms

Prof. Dr. Anita Engels

engels@wiso.uni-hamburg.de

Globalization, environment and society

Prof. Dr. Cord Jakobeit

jakobeit@wiso.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. Dirk Nabers

nabers@frieden.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

schnapp@wiso.uni-hamburg.de

Quantitative Analysis, economics and politics of institutions