Visiting Fellows

Currently at the GIGA

Name	Country of Origin / Institution	Research	Duration of stay	Funding
Minobu Kamo, M.D., Ph.D.	Department of Radiology, St. Luke’s International Hospital, Tokyo, Japan	Occupational Health Health Statistics	February 2019 - August 2020	Tsuchiya Memorial Foundation \| Bayer Foundation
Dr. Azul A. Aguiar Aguilar	Profil - ITESO, Universidad Jesuita de Guadaljara, Mexico	Democratization Judicial Politics	August 2019 - July 2020	CONACyT
Prof. Dr. Federico Rossi	Profil - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina	Social movements and protest Legislative studies Political economy Relational analysis	December 2019 - May 2020	Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers
Marisa von Bülow	Political Science Institute, University of Brasilia, Brazil	Democracy in Latin America Digital Activism Protest Social Movement Organizations Elections and Digital Strategies	April 2019 - May 2020	Fundação de Apoio à Pesquisa do Distrito Federal (FAP-DF) and University of Brasilia
Dr. Jaemin Shim		Understanding Party Politics in Northeast Asia with Multiple Cleavages Gender and Politics in Northeast Asia: Legislative Patterns and Performance of Female Legislators Capturing Welfare Politics with Triangulation: Combining Multiple Datasets and Methods from Neighbouring Disciplines Presidentialism and Welfare Politics Party-Voter Linkage of Unorthodox Social Policy in Korea and Japan World Politics of Social Investment	July 2017 - March 2020	Thyssen Fellowship; GIGA Research Platform Asia (07/2019 - 10/2019)
Dr. Sebastian Biba	Profil - Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Deutschland	Transnational responsibility	January 2020 - March 2020
Prof. Dr. Esther Ishengoma	University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania	Energy choices for transport and cooking Entrepreneurship, formalization and enterprise development Financial linkages, MFIs sustainability and poverty reduction Gender and agribusiness	August 2019 - February 2020

Former Visiting Fellows

Name	Country of Origin / Institution	Research	Duration of stay	Funding
Dr. Katrin Kamin	Profil - CAU Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany	International Trade Political Economy Conflict & Peace Economics Fisheries & Marine Resources Development Economics	April 2019 - October 2019	VolkswagenStiftung
Ana Isabel López García		Political behaviour International migration Peace and conflict	October 2018 - September 2019	Gerda Henkel Foundation (Special Programme Security, Society and the State)
Dr. Melina Kalfelis		Political Anthropology Civil Society Transnationalism Audiovisual Anthropology	February 2019 - August 2019	VolkswagenStiftung
Prof. Dr. Thomas Kalinowski	Ewha Womans University, South Korea	International Political Economy International Organizations Global governance Sustainable governance International development Climate finance Development cooperation Climate adaptation Green Climate Fund	January 2019 - August 2019	Sabbatical
Prof. Dr. Sook Jong Lee	Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul	Complex Dimensions of Asian Countries’ Responses toward China	September 2018 - June 2019	East Asia Institute of South Korea
Dr. Luis Fernando Trejos Rosero	Department of Political Science and International Relations, Universidad del Norte, Colombia	Borders Security and peace building Armed conflict	January 2019 - June 2019	Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
Sharinee Jagtiani	St Cross College, University of Oxford	Regions and Region-building in International Relations Status-seeking and aspiring powers Global International Relations Indian foreign policy China-India Relations	February 2019 - March 2019	GIGA India Fellowship
Dr. Sangeeta Mahapatra	India	Counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency strategies of India, Israel, and the United States of America. Interlinkages of human security (energy, water, food, and environmental security) concerns and policies in India Environmental economics and sustainable development of South Asia Ideology- and identity-based politics of India Indian political communications in the digital space including the methods of persuasion, manipulation, propaganda, and voter engagement	September 2018 - March 2019	GIGA India Fellowship
Matheus Lucas Hebling	University of Campinas, Brazil	Presidentialism Foreign Policy Presidential Agenda Terrorism Decision-Making and Legislative Processes Political Discourse Qualitative Methodology and Comparative Politics	September 2018 - February 2019	Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education - CAPES
Jan Němec	Faculty of International Relations, University of Economics, Prague	Comparative Politics Party Politics Electoral Processes Legislative Studies	August 2018 - January 2019	University of Economics, Prague
Dr. Sazana Jayadeva		Transnational student mobility Migration infrastructures Social media Indian middle classes Social mobility	November 2017 - December 2018	GIGA India Fellowship
Dr. Rocío Verástegui Ledesma	Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP)	Process of construction of the Nation and democracy in Peru	September 2018 - December 2018	Akademischer Austauschdienst German Academic Service (DAAD). Research stays for University Academics and Scientists, 2018
Rocco Zizzamia	Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU), Cape Town, South Africa	Effects of volatility in the South African labour market on individual well-being	October 2018 - December 2018	SALDRU
Dr. Zoltan Pall	Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore	Kuwaiti Islamic Charities, Transnational Networks and the Transformation of Muslim Communities in Southeast Asia	September 2018 - December 2018	GIGA
Dr. Kamala Kaghoma	Catholic University of Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo	Education Intergenerational Mobility Poverty dynamics	September 2018 - December 2018	TWAS-DFG
Dr. Sreeradha Datta	Profil Vivekananda International Foundation, New Delhi, India	The developing connectivity corridors in the Southern Asian region Regional organisations, and issues concerning internal security and cross border linkages Cross border economic corridors Internal and cross border migrations Common waters in the Southern Asian region	November 2018 - November 2018	GIGA India Fellowship
Enrique Carlos Natalino	Federal University of Minas Gerais - UFMG, Brazil	Presidential Diplomacy Ideology and Foreign Policy Foreign Policy Analysis Political Resource Course	November 2017 - October 2018	Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education - CAPES
Jannik Schritt	Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and The Ethnographic Collection, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen	Political Anthropology Anthropology of the State Anthropology of Development Oil Globalization	February 2018 - August 2018	VW Grant "Forschung und Praxis"
Dr. Merouan Mekouar	York University, Canada	Governance in Authoritarian Countries Authoritarian Resilience Social Movements Democratic Transitions Diffusion	May 2018 - August 2018	Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, York University
Sinan Chu	Department of Political Science, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA	Ethnic Politics in Contemporary China Authoritarian Politics, Social Policies in Non-Democracies State-Intellectual Relations US-China/East-Asia Relations Qualitative Research Method	August 2016 - August 2018	Konrad Adenauer Foundation
Sofia Vera	University of Pittsburgh, United States	Democratization Representation Parties and Party Systems Political Behaviour Accountability Corruption Causal Inference Mixed-methods Research	October 2017 - July 2018	German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Dr. May Darwich	Durham University, UK	Foreign Policy Analysis of Middle Eastern States The Interplay Identity and Power in Middle East International Relations Identity politics Alliances and Threat Perception Regime-society relations Authoritarianism in the Middle East	April 2018 - July 2018
Prof. Dr. Lucas Pereira Rezende	Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil	International Security and Defense Defense Cooperation in South America Armed Forces and Democracy in Brazil International Relations Theories Peace Operations	January 2018 - July 2018	Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS)
Aline Chianca Dantas	Universidade de Brasília, Brazil	Foreign Policy International Technical Scientific Cooperation	September 2017 - March 2018	CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (Brazilian Institute of International Education)
Rodrigo Cuevas	University of Chile, Chile	Trade Policy Interest Group Institutional change Comparative politics.	September 2017 - February 2018	Funding: National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT)
Luiz Eduardo Garcia da Silva	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil	Electoral Systems Democratic Theory Electoral Coalitions International Relations Brazilian Diplomacy and Foreign Policy	January 2017 - January 2018	Self financier
Prof. Dr. Ibrahim Mouiche	Department of Political Science, University of Yaoundé II, Cameroon	Political Parties Representation of Ethnic Minorities in Cameroon	October 2017 - December 2017	Georg Forster Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Dr. Raphaëlle Khan	King's College London, UK	India and the Global Order Think Tanks in India	September 2017 - December 2017	GIGA India Fellowship
Grazielle Albuquerque	Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) , Brazil	Judicial Systems in Latin America Institutional change / Political Process Judicial Behavior Public Communication / Political Press Internet/social media	May 2017 - September 2017	CAPES (Brazil)
Rafael Mesquita de Souza Lima	Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE)	Regional Powers Foreign Policy Regionalism Brazilian Foreign Policy United Nations	March 2017 - September 2017	CAPES (Brazil)
Dr. Tamirace Fakhoury	LAU School of Arts and Sciences, Lebanon	Arab immigrant communities in the West Migrants and protest movements Power sharing in divided societies (focus on Lebanon) Models of political governance in the Middle East and North Africa	May 2017 - August 2017	Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Dr. Chanchal Kumar Sharma	Central University of Haryana, Pali, Mahendergarh, India	Political Economy of Federalism Party System Stability and Change Intergovernmental Transfers and Regional Disparities	January 2017 - June 2017	GIGA India Fellowship
Cecilia Roa	Fundación Evaristo García, Cali, Kolumbien	Water supply Environment Development Sustainability	May 2015 - April 2017	Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Prof. Dr. Kai Michael Kenkel	Institute of International Relations, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Security Intervention norms Responsibility to protect	March 2016 - February 2017
Saiful Haque	MOVE Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh	Research on Preventing Youth Radicalisation and Political Extremism in South Asia and Beyond	October 2016 - December 2016	ifa Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen
Dr. Haibin Niu	Shanghai Institute for International Studies, China	Comparative Studies on the Strategy of Germany and China towards Brazil	May 2016 - August 2016	Friedrich Ebert Foundation
Dr. Nkwachukwu Orji	Institute for Development Studies, University of Nigeria	A Cross National Survey of the Reports of International Election Observation Missions in Africa Policies Tackling Electoral Violence in Africa Evolution of Political Institutions in Africa	June 2014 - May 2016
Sandra Zapata	Universidad de Salamanca, Spain	South-South Cooperation and Integration Processes in Latin America	August -September 2016	Universidad de Salamanca
Prof. Dr. Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser	Universidad Diego Portales, Chile	Comparative Politics, Populism, Democracy, Political Parties	July - August 2016	Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Dr. Angelika Rettberg	Universidad de los Andes, Colombia	Political Economy of Armed Conflict and Peacebuilding in Colombia	June - July 2016	Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Vanessa Suelt Cock	Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia	Corporations Complicity in Human Rights Violations, Participation and the Right to Land	June - July 2016	Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Suyeon Lee	Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul	South Korea's Mixed-Member Electoral System and Party Politics	February - July 2016	Korea Foundation Fellowship
Dr. Santiago Basabe-Serrano	Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, FLACSO Ecuador. Department of Political Studies	Judicial Systems in Latin America	September 2014 - July 2016	Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Prof. Dr. Thomas Demmelhuber	Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg	Lecture and Workshop IDCAR-Network and RP 1	February - March 2016
Prof. Dr. Marianne Kneuer	Universität Hildesheim	Lectures and Discussions IDCAR-Network and RP 1	January - February 2016
Soyun Yang	Seoul National University, South Korea	Legal Approach to Human Rights Violations in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea	September 2015 - February 2016	Korea Foundation Fellowship
Prof. Dr. Kai Enno Lehmann	Institute of International Relations, University of São Paulo (IRI-USP)	Regionalism and its role in security management in Latin America	August 2015 - February 2016
Dr. Nicolás Comini	Universidad del Salvador, Argentina	International Relations, Regional Integration, Defense and Security	August 2015 - January 2016
Dr. Sazana Jayadeva	University of Cambrigde, UK	Research on International Student Migration from India	August 2015 - January 2016	DAAD
Nicolás Simone	Institute of Research "Gino Germani", Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina	Political History, Transitions to Democracy, Argentine Congress, Political and Legislatives Careers	October - November 2015	DAAD
Prof. Dr. Diana Tussie	Department of International Relations at FLACSO, Argentina	Latin American Economics and Politics, International Trade, International Institutions	August - September 2015
Christopher Bahia Mendonça	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil	Legislative Behavior, Subnational Politics in Brazil, Institutional Presidency in Latin America	October 2014 - September 2015
Dr. Laurence Whitehead	Latin American Centre, University of Oxford	US relations and European relations with Latin America, current processes of democratisation	June - July 2015
Gabriel Alejandro Martínez	Universidad de Salamanca, España	State Building, Governance, Independent Agencies, Bureaucracy and Public Administration Reform in El Salvador	May - July 2015	DAAD
Prof. Dr. H. Christoph Steinhardt	Centre for China Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong	Social Protest (Management) in China	May - July 2015	Centre for China Studies
Jeonghyun Seong	Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul	Current Issues in Inter-Korean Relations	February - July 2015	Korea Foundation Fellowship
Prof. Dr. Malte Pehl	College of Charleston	India-Africa Relations and China-Africa Relations since 2000	June 2015
Micha Wiebusch	SOAS, London, IOB, Antwerp, UNU-CRIS, Bruges	Regional Integration in Africa, Public International Law, Constitutional Design for Divided Societies, Comparative Constitutional Law and Politics, Peace and Conflict Studies	February - March 2015	Institutions for Sustainable Peace (ISP)
Solhee Han	KDI School of Public Policy and Management, South Korea	Research Internship	October 2014 - March 2015	Korea Foundation Fellowship
Cíntia Vieira Souto	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Strategic International Studies Program	Brazilian Foreing Policy, Bilateral Relations, Military Cooperations in Latin America	January - March 2015	Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior CAPES
Carolina de Oliveira Salgado	Pontificia Universidade Católica, Rio de Janeiro	Brazilian Foreign Policy, International Cooperation, Transnational Norm Processes, Dynamics of the European Union	May 2014 - February 2015
Dr. David Kuehn	Institut für Politische Wissenschaft, Universität Heidelberg	Demokratisierungs- und Autokratieforschung, Zivil-Militärische Beziehungen, Methoden	April - June 2015	IDCAR
Filipe Souza Correa	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais/ Departamento de Ciência Política, Brasil	Legislative Behavior, Subnational Politics in Brazil, Institutional Presidency in Latin America	June 2014 - February 2015
Eun-Joo Lee	KDI School of Public Policy and Management, South Korea	Research Internship	October - December 2014	Korea Foundation Fellowship
Prof. Dr. William Harris	University of Otago, New Zealand	The Civil War in Syria: Perspectives and Prospects	October 2014
Victor M. Mijares	Universidad Central de Venezuela	International Security, Multipolarity, Neoclassical Realism, South American Defense Council	September 2013 - September 2014
Dr. Santiago Basabe-Serrano	Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, FLACSO Ecuador. Department of Political Studies	Formal and Informal Political Institutions. Judicial Politics, Legislatures and Presidentialism, Ecuador	September 2013 - August 2014	Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Prof. Dr. Eduardo Pastrana	Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia	Columbian Foreign Policy	July 2014	AvH, DAAD
Giovanni Agostinis	IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca	Regionalism, Interdependence, South America, UNASUR	November 2013 - July 2014
Dr. Víctor M. González-Sánchez	Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid	Economic Convergence, Economic Growth, Economic Development	September 2013 - July 2014	UNED and Ministry of Education of Spain
Angelika Rettberg, Ph.D	Universidad de los Andes, Bogota	Political Economy of Armed Conflict and Peacebuilding in Colombia	July 2013 - July 2014	Georg Forster Fellowship
Dr. Meena Singh Roy	Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), India	Regional Security in Afghanistan	March - June 2014	German Research Foundation (DFG)
Luis Leandro Schenoni Santos	Universidad Torcuato Di Tella	Neoclassical Realism, International Relations in South America, Regional Reactions Towards the Brazlian Rise	February - June 2014
Insa Flachsbarth	CEIGRAM, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spanien	Impacts of Agricultural Commodity Trade on Poverty through Structural Changes in the Peruvian Economy	August 2013 - May 2014
Allyson Lucinda Benton	División de Estudios Políticos, CIDE, Distrito Federal, Mexico	The Municipal Foundations of Subnational Authoritarian Enclaves	April 2014
Prof. Dr. Benjamin Reilly	Murdoch University Australia, Perth	Power Sharing	January - February 2014	AvH, DAAD
Prof. Dr. Josef Gregory Mahoney	East China Normal University/Fudan University/Central Translation and Compilation Bureau	Ideology in China, Chinese Communist Party	January - February 2014	Kompetenznetz Regieren in China
Paula Bertino	Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani de la Universidad de Buenos Aires	ILAS	October - December 2013	Universidad de Buenos Aires "René Hugo Thalmann"
Dr. Ningli Long	China Center for Comparative Politics and Economics, Beijing	Chinese Civil Society, Local Governance	September - December 2013	BMBF Kompetenznetz "Regieren in China"
Pr. Dr. Ibrahim Mouiche	Department of Political Science, University of Yaoundé II, Cameroon	Political Parties and the Representation of Ethnic Minorities in Cameroon	October 2012 - December 2013	Georg Forster Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Prof. Dr. Kathryn Hochstetler	University of Waterloo, USA	Global Governance / Comparative Politics / Latin America	November 2013
Dr. Adrian H. Hearn	University of Sidney, Australia	Relations between China and Latin America	September - October 2013	DAAD
Prof. Morten Valbjorn	Department of Political Science, Aarhus	CAS/IMES/RP1 Lectures	September - October 2013	GIGA
Prof. Sean Yom	Temple University, Philadelphia	CAS/IMES/RP1 Lectures	September 2013	GIGA
Dr. Marco Aparicio Wilhelmi	Universitat de Girona, Spanien	Derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas en América Latina	August - September 2013
Prof. Dawisson Elvecio Belem Lopes	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brasilien	Contested World Orders-Projekt	July - August 2013	GIGA
Dr. Philip Kitzberger	Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires	Left Turn and Governmental Activism in the Political Public Sphere in Latin America	February - July 2013	Georg Forster Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Dr. Adriana Schor	University of São Paulo (IRI/USP), Brazil	International Trade and Political Cooperation and Conflict	September 2012 - June 2013	Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo - FAPESP
Dr. Lucio Renno	Universidade de Brasília, Brasilia	Electoral Institutions, Political Information and Voting: A Comparative Study of Electoral Systems	March - May 2013	AvH Research Fellowship
Dr. Björn Dressel	Australian National University (ANU), Canberra	Cooperation "Politik und Judikative"	April 2013	GIGA
Prof. Dr. Tadahisa Izeki	Chuo University, Tokio	Research on Social Movements in Germany and Japan	April 2012 - March 2013	Self-financed
Dr. Mu Gengyuan	China Institute of International Studies, Beijing	Project: "Interregionalism: A New Path to Global Governance or a Replacement for it?"	October - December 2012	GIZ
Adriana Ramírez	Universidad de Salamanca (USAL), Spain	PhD sharing with Salamanca	September - December 2012
Dr. Eva Wegner	University of Cape Town, South Africa	Demand for Redistribution, Political Parties in Developing Countries, Islamist Parties, Accountability in Dominant Party Systems	August - December 2012	University of Cape Town
Prof. Dr. Sook Jong Lee	Sungkyunkwan University and East Asia Institute, Seoul	Research Project "South Korea's Middle Power Diplomacy"	September - October 2012	Self-financed
Nicole Jenne	European University Institute, Florence, Italy	International Crises and Territory in South America and Southeast Asia	June - September 2012	European University Institute
Dörthe Engelke	University of Oxford, Great Britain	Research Project "Stability and Change of Authoritarian Regimes"	May - July 2012	University of Oxford
Prof. Hongyun Zhou	China Center for Comparative Politics & Economics, Beijing	BMBF-Kompetenznetwerkes "Regieren in China"	May - July 2012	BMBF
Nina von Uexküll	Uppsala University, Sweden	Research on a Codebook on Conflicts with Non-State Actors	May - June 2012	Self-financed/ISP
Dr. Paul Chambers	Payap University, Chiang Mai, Thailand	Research on Factionalism in (South-)East Asian Political Parties	April - June 2012	GIGA
Prof. Ariel Ahram	University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, USA	Lecture "War-/State-Making in Iraq" at the IMES-Kolloquium	June 2012	GIGA
Juan Manuel Trak	Universidad de Salamanca (USAL)	Political Representation in Latin America	March - May 2012
Rubén Dominguez	Universidad de Salamanca (USAL)	Research	March - May 2012	Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología Mexico
Ferdinand Eibl	University of Oxford, England	Social Spending in Authoritarian Regimes	January - March 2012	University of Oxford
Pablo Nacht	FLACSO, Buenos Aires, Argentina	Doctoral Thesis, Lectures	December 2011 - January 2012	DAAD
Claire Wright	Universidad de Salamanca, Espana	Doctoral Thesis, Lectures, Teaching	September - December 2011	Spanish Ministry of Science
Piao Yingji	Chinese Academy of Social Science (CASS), China	Foreign Direct Investments and Development in Africa	September - December 2011	GIZ
Prof. Hari Bansh Jha	Centre for Economic and Technical Studies, Katmandu, Nepal	Nepal's Economic Strategy	September - December 2011	Friedrich Ebert Foundation
Juanita Villaveces	Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Columbia	Doctoral Thesis, Lectures	September - November 2011	DAAD
Dr. Mustafa al-Labbad	Al-Sharq Center for Regional and Strategic Studies, Kairo, Ägypten	Arab Spring	August 2011	Al-Sharq Center for Regional and Strategic Studies
Prof. Dr. Hugo Dobson	School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield, Great Britain	The Role of Asian Regional Powers in G8 and G20	June - July 2011
Albert de Vaal	Radboud University Nijmegen	International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment	April 2011	Radbound University Nijmegen/GIGA
Dr. Esther Ishengoma	University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania	Research and Publications	Mai 2010 - April 2011
Dr. Alcides Costa Vaz	Universidade de Brasília, Brasilia	Supervision Doctoral Students, Masterclass, Lectures, Project Planning	February - March 2011	HIGS
Dr. Lucio Renno	Universidade de Brasília, Brasilia	Research, Publication	January - March 2011	AvH Research Fellowship
Prof. Dr. Martin Paldam	School of Economics and Management, Aarhus University, Denmark	Research	January 2011