Mario Clemens is a doctoral candidate at the Chair of Political Theory at the University of Erfurt. He researches political judgment.

Nagapushpa Devendra is a Doctoral Researcher at the Chair of International Relations and Conflict Studies. She is currently working on Iran-China partnership. Her area of concentration are regional conflicts, Strategic Affairs and Domestic Politics in West Asia (Middle East). 

Ali Dogan is a doctoral candidate at the Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science at the Freie Universität Berlin. He researches the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) and the Iraqi foreign intelligence service.

Anna Lena Goll is a doctoral candidate in the BMBF-funded competence network “Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict”.

Michael Güpner is a doctoral candidate at the Chair of Civic Education at the University of Erfurt. He researches the functionality of borders.

Manuel Kautz is a doctoral candidate at the Chair of Political Theory at the University of Erfurt. He researches newer and older theories of political representation.

Philipp Köncke is a doctoral candidate in the Heisenberg Research Group “Sociology of Globalization” at the University of Erfurt and researches Chinese capitalism.

Severin Loske is a doctoral candidate at the Chair of Political Theory at the University of Erfurt. He researches political theories in the context of ecological conflicts.

Steffen Mingenbach is a doctoral candidate at the Chair of Civic Education at the University of Erfurt. Among other things, he researches young people’s understanding of democracy.

Eva-Sophie Mörschel is a doctoral candidate at the Chair of Political Theory at the University of Erfurt. She researches the meaning(s) of privacy and the historical conditions of its conceptual development.

Johannes Schmoldt is a doctoral candidate at the Chair of Civic Education at the University of Erfurt. He researches the relationship between democracy and political judgment, political theory and the history of ideas, political rhetoric, and the history of German political science.

Hanna Schnieders is a doctoral candidate in the competence network “Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace & Conflict” and researches global justice.

Katja Reuter is a doctoral candidate at the Chair for Democracy Promotion and Digital Policy (Prof. Thorsten Thiel) at the Faculty of State Sciences at the University of Erfurt. She researches conceptions of the public sphere in radical democratic theories and the effects of digitalization.

Titus van de Kerke is a PhD student at the Professorship for International Politics and Conflict Studies at the University of Erfurt. His research focuses on the social and societal effects of contemporary intelligence practices.

Jasmin Wachau is a doctoral candidate and research associate at the Junior Professorship of International Administrative Law and Public International Law. Her research areas include internet regulation, human rights, and comparative law. She also represents the fellows of the college.

Cynthia Wang is a PhD candidate at the University of Erfurt’s Professorship for International Politics and Conflict Studies and SAGE Group UMR 7363 at the University of Strasbourg. She studies the role of intelligence disclosures in knowledge production hierarchies.

Paul Witzenhausen is a doctoral candidate at the Chair of International Relations.

Dr. Franz Barrios is a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Political Theory at the University of Erfurt. Among other things, he researches the relationship between democracy and the rule of law in light of New Latin American Constitutionalism.

Dr. des. Madeleine Böhm is a postdoctoral researcher and coordinator of the doctoral program “De-Globalization and Global Decoupling” funded by the Hans Böckler Foundation (link: https://www.uni-erfurt.de/brandtschool/forschung/forschungsprojekte/promotionskolleg-de-globalisierung-und-globale-entkopplung-deglobe). In her current project, she examines the reconstructive analysis of world order conceptions held by platform companies.

Dr. Noura Chalati is a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of International Politics and Conflict Studies at the University of Erfurt. Her research focuses on International Political Sociology and New Intelligence Studies.

Dr. Zeynep Gülşah Çapan is a Lecturer at the chair group of International Relations at the University of Erfurt. Her research focuses on history and historiography, sociology of knowledge and postcolonial and decolonial thought.

Dr. Karoline Färber (she/her) is a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of International Politics and Conflict Studies. She conducts research in the BMBF-funded project “KNOWPRO: Knowledge Production in German Peace and Security Policy.”

Dr. Marius Hildebrand is a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Political Theory at the University of Erfurt. He currently researches, in particular, the relationship between constitution and crisis against the background of the European economic, financial, and monetary crisis.

Dr. Jan Ickler is a research associate and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Erfurt and coordinates the Erfurt Research Unit for Geoeconomics. His work focuses primarily on the political economy of extractivism and actor constellations in raw-material-exporting countries.

Dr. Hagen Schölzel is a research associate at the Chair of Political Theory at the University of Erfurt. Among other things, he researches the concept of the state of exception, the digitalization of society, and the formation of publics.

Dr. Siddharth Tripathi is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Erfurt as part of the BMBF funded network on Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict. His current research focuses on the politics of knowledge production in International Relations and Peace and Conflict Studies.

Dr. Hannah Vermaßen is a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Political Theory at the University of Erfurt. Among other things, she researches the systems-theoretical concept of resonance.

Prof. Dr. Andreas Anter is Professor of Civic Education, with a focus on the German political system, at the University of Erfurt.

Prof. Dr. André Brodocz is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Erfurt.

PD Dr. Ulrich Franke is Academic Councillor (Akademischer Rat) at the Faculty of State Sciences at the University of Erfurt.

Prof. Dr. Andreas C. Goldthau is Director of the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy and holds the Franz Haniel Chair for Public Policy at the Faculty of State Sciences. His research focuses on energy security and the international political economy of decarbonization.

Prof. Dr. Sophia Hoffmann is Professor for International Politics and Conflict Research at the Faculty of Economics, Law, and Social Sciences at the University of Erfurt. She is an international relations scholar with a focus on international security, intelligence agencies, migration and humanitarian aid. Having carried out extensive field research in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, she has deep expertise on the international relations of West Asia, and on state-society relations in the region. She is one of the Co-Speakers of the C2PO.

Prof. Dr. Oliver Kessler is Professor of International Relations at the University of Erfurt and Speaker of the C2PO.

Prof. Dr. Michael Riegner is Junior Professor of International Administrative Law and Public International Law at the University of Erfurt. He researches the law of international institutions, development administrative law, and human rights protection, as well as comparative constitutional law and law and development in the Global South.

Thorsten Thiel is Professor of Democracy Promotion and Digital Policy at the University of Erfurt. He researches the digital structural transformation of the public sphere and its democratic implications.

Prof. Dr. Stefan Schmalz has been Professor of Labor and Economic Sociology at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena since 01.03.2025.

Prof. Dr. Martin Mullsow holds the Chair of Early Modern Intellectual Culture in Europe at the University of Erfurt and is Director of the Gotha Research Centre.

Dr. Amelie Harbisch is a postdoc at the Chair of International Politics and Conflict Studies at the University of Erfurt. She conducts research in the BMBF-funded project “KNOWPRO: Knowledge Production in German Peace and Security Policy.” Since 01.04.2025, Amelie Harbisch has also been a coordinator of the C2PO.

Dr. Timor Landherr is a postdoctoral researcher in the ‘Postdoc 2025+’ funding format. His research combines a historical-materialist approach to International Political Sociology with the themes of the political economy of international border and migration policy, ‘depopulation,’ and racism and antiracism in world politics. Since March 2025, he has been one of the coordinators of the C2PO.

Dr. Mariana Caldas is a researcher and coordinator at the Center for Political Practices and Orders (C2PO) as part of the PostDoc Funding 2025+ Programme. They are currently developing the project “Aesthetic Orders: crisis, judgment, and the visual grammar of conceptual change in world politics.” Their research centres aesthetic narratives of violence and conflict in late modernity, with particular interest in art, lived experience, continental philosophy, critical security studies, and critical theory.

Dr. Andreas Aagaard Nøhr is a Lecturer in the Department of International Relations and International Organization at the University of Groningen.

Dr. Anahita Arian is a Postdoc Fellow at the C2PO at the University of Erfurt and the Max Weber Centre.

Dr. Lorina Buhr is a research associate at the Chair of Political Theory at the University of Erfurt. She researches the history of political thought, the digitalization of society, and the challenges that anthropogenic global environmental change poses for political theory-building.

Dagmar Comtesse is a research associate at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Münster (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster).

Viktoria Fischer is a research associate at the Erfurt University of Applied Sciences (FH Erfurt).

Stefanie Hammer is a policy officer for family policy (TMASGFF).

Dr. Matthieu Hughes is a Research Associate at the Centre for Global Political Economy, University of Sussex, United Kingdom.

Bastian Mokosch was a doctoral candidate until 2023 and is a former Christoph Martin Wieland scholarship holder at the Chair of Political Theory at the University of Erfurt.

Filipe Dos Reis is Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations and International Organization at the University of Groningen.

Janine Schmoldt wrote her doctoral dissertation at the Chair of International Relations at the University of Erfurt and successfully defended it in December 2024. She researches theories of international relations, the politics of international law, theories of war, cyberwar, and hackers.

Timo Walter is a Junior Professor at the Institut d’études politiques (Sciences Po) at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Dr. Benjamin Wilhelm is a policy officer for overall bank management (Gesamtbanksteuerung) at the Genossenschaftsverband – Verband der Regionen e.V.

Lea Schneidemesser was a research associate in the subproject “Clash or Convergence of Capitalisms: Property Conflicts over Chinese Direct Investment in Germany and the European Union” of the Collaborative Research Centre “Structural Change of Property” and a doctoral candidate in the Heisenberg Research Group “Sociology of Globalization” at the University of Erfurt.