Staff

Since 2024, the historian Laurent Kohouri N'guessan has been a PhD student with a stipend funded by the DFG in the research project "Constructing Transport Architecture in West Africa. A multi-scalar history of materialities, territories and actors." The project is being carried out in cooperation between the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS), the University Félix Houphouët-Boigny and the University of Ghent.

Depuis 2024, l'historien Laurent Kohouri N'guessan est doctorant et boursier de la DFG (Fondation de recherche allemande) au projet de recherche "Constructing Transport Architecture in West Africa", une histoire multiscalaire de matérialités, des territoires et des acteurs. Ce projet est implémenté en coopération entre l’Institut Leibniz de recherche sur la société et l’espace (IRS), l’Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny et l’Université de Gand.

Paul Treffenfeldt is a research assistant in the Research Area "Contemporary History and Archives" since March 2024. His main areas of interest are economic and knowledge history issues in recent contemporary history. He is currently preparing a dissertation on the history of statistics in Germany.

Maren Francke joined the MFDI4Memory project "Geodaten als Sozialdaten? Ein experimentelles Projekt zum Einsatz von Drohnen und Deep Mapping in der Zeitgeschichte" as a research associate in April 2024. She studied history and German philology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Károli Gáspár University Budapest.

Veronika Warzycha has been a research associate in the Research Area “Economy and Civil Society” since April 2024. As part of the DFG-funded Emmy-Noether-Group, she is researching border memory on the Polish-German border.