Lead Research Fellow | Co-Leader of the GIGA Institute for Latin American Studies (ad interim) Editor GIGA Focus Latin America
Since 06/2018: Honorary professorship at the Philipps-University Marburg
06/2018 - 01/2020: Acting Director of the GIGA Institute of Latin American Studies
09/2006 - 10/2008: Senior Researcher DSF-Project "Societal and political Fractures after War: Youth Violence in Cambodia and Guatemala", INEF, University Duisburg-Essen.
Since 1993: Senior Researcher of the GIGA Institute of Latin American Studies, research interests: peace and conflict, security policies, youth Regional focus Central America, Andean Region.
Since 1992: Independent Consultant (among others for the Foreign Ministry, Minis-try of Development Cooperation, GTZ, Bertelsmann Transformation Index).
1991: PhD in Political Science, University of Hamburg.
1990 - 1992: Researcher at the Research Center on Wars, Armament and Development, University of Hamburg.
1987 - 1990: Researcher at the Institute of Political Science University of Hamburg (Prof. Dr. K.J. Gantzel), Coordination of the Research Group on Cau-ses of War.
1987: Researcher at the Institute for Iberoamerican Studies, Hamburg (July - September)
Education: Studies in Political Science, Spanish, Contemporary History in Madrid, Erlangen, Sevilla and Hamburg
Postwar Societies
Violence and Social change
Youth
Central America
Colombia