Staff

Eva Gajek is a historian specializing in the social, economic, and cultural history of the 19th and 20th centuries. Her research connects questions of social inequality with spatial analysis, elite studies, and the history of wealth. Starting in the research area "Contemporary History and Archive" in May 2025, she will co-lead the research project “Where the Rich Live: Mapping Villa Neighborhoods and Cultures of Wealth in Germany’s Long Twentieth Century” (RichMap) at the IRS. The project is part of the Leibniz Cooperative Excellence Programme and explores the spatial dimensions of wealth and social inequality in modern Germany.

Marike Flömer since April 2025 is a research associate in the Emmy Noether Junior Research Group "The socio-spatial Memory of European Borders: Dispositives of Remembering and Forgetting “ within the research area "Economy and Civil Society" where she focuses her studies on the German-Danish border.

Antonia Nähring has been working as a research associate in the "Economy and Civil Society" research area at the IRS since April 2025, where she is involved in the lead project "Post-Office". She previously studied Geography at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Urban Design at HafenCity University Hamburg.

Since March 2025, Valentin Mühlich has been a research associate in the "Creativity and Work" Research Group in the" Economics and Civil Society" Research Area. Valentin Mühlich studied urban design at Technische Universität Berlin.