Staff

Anika Posselius has held the position for Co-Creation and Networking in the Research Support and Communication office since January 2025. She is responsible for international formats such as the IRS International Spring Academy, the support and advancement of IRS networks in politics and civil society and the development of new transfer formats. nika studied Cultural Studies (BA) and European Studies (MA) at the European University Viadrina, the AMU Poznań and the Universytet Wrocławski in Wrocław.

Clementina Irimina joined the research area “Contemporary History and Archive” in a project about the history of the Bauakademie (Building Academy) of the GDR as a research associate in November 2024. She studied history at the University of Bucharest and at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Svetlana Burmistr has been working on the project "How the Past Counts. The History of the Federal Statistical Office (GeStat)" of the Research Area "Contemporary History and Archive" since 1 November 2024. She studied linguistics, modern German literature and political science at Freie Universität Berlin. In 2014, she completed her doctorate in modern history at the Centre for Research on Antisemitism at Technische Universität Berlin.

Anastasia Betsa joined the Research Area “Contemporary History and Archive” at the IRS as a research associate in the new lead project with the working title “Boden. Rethinking a Historically Fraught Category” in November 2024. Previously she graduated with a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Architecture from the RWTH Aachen and completed the M.A. Historical Urban Studies at Technische Universität Berlin.