Staff

Since 2024, the historian Laurent N'guessan Kohouri 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 N’guessan Kohouri Laurent 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.

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.

Since April 2024, Barbara Orth has been a postdoctoral research associate in the research area 'Economy and Civil Society' at the IRS and contibutes to the lead project. During her PhD work at Free University (FU) Berlin, Barbara explored digital platforms as migration infrastructures, particularly in the realm of reproductive services.

Lisa Vollmer joined the research group "Urban Politics" of the research focus "Politics and Planning" as a PostDoc-researcher in February 2024. After studying art history and cultural studies, she worked as a researcher at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. In 2021/2022 she held a substitute professorship in Urban Planning at the Bauhaus University Weimar. Her research focuses on housing, social movements, governance and participation.