Staff

Michael Schwind ist seit März 2025 wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im Forschungsschwerpunkt „Politik und Planung“ und Postdoktorand im Teilprojekt „Contestation over Property Regimes and Housing: (Un)doing Commodified Urban Land Ownership in India and Germany“ des DFG-Sonderforschungsbereichs „Strukturwandel des Eigentums“.

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.

Inés Gartlinger joined the IRS in January 2025 as a research associate in the new lead project of the Research Area “Politics and Planning” in the Research Group “Urban Sustainability Transformations.” As part of this project, she is working on her dissertation on the governance of the urban heat transition in the German EU Mission Cities.

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.