Dr. Maren Wagner (née Hoepfner)

Since 07/2025: Head of Doctoral Programme and Talent Management

06/2020 - 06/2025: Academic Director Doctoral Programme

10/2016 - 07/2017 and 07/2018 - 09/2019: Acting Academic Director of the GIGA Doctoral Programme; 03/2018 - 06/2025: Academic Development Manager

10/2016 - 08/2025: Equal Opportunity Commissioner of the GIGA

01/2016 - 03/2018: Coordinator of the GIGA Doctoral Programme

05/2015 - 03/2018: Associate Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute of Asian Studies

01/2012 - 03/2012: Guest researcher at the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Regional Programme Political Dialogue Asia/Singapur, Singapore

2010 - 2015: Doctoral Student at the Hamburg International Graduate School for the Study of Regional Powers, GIGA

Education: Studies of Communication Science (Journalism, Politics, International Systems of Culture) at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart (Dipl. rer. com.); PhD (Dr. phil.) at the University of Hamburg

Regional institutions and integration

The concept of emergence in IR theory

Critical realism

Philosophy of Science