Staff

Yorgos Paschos is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Research Area “Economy and Civil Society”. He is currently contributing to the lead project “Caring – Valuating – Transitioning” within the Research Focus “Creativity and Work”. His research critically examines the dynamic construction of space and community, with a specialized focus on the intersection of care, values, subcultures, and heritage in diverse cultural settings.

Jonas Bleckmann has been working as a research assistant in the “Contemporary History and Archives” research group since April 2026. As part of the joint project “Auto(im)mobile Infrastructures in the Federal Republic of Germany and Western Europe during the Great Acceleration”, he is collaborating with the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History in Potsdam (ZZF), the Berlin Social Science Centre (WZB) and the Centre for Metropolitan Studies at the Technical University of Berlin. As part of his doctoral research, he is leading the sub-project based at the IRS on the history of bridges as components of automotive infrastructure.

Since March 2026, Gesa Marken is a research associate in the Research Area “Economy and Civil Society”. She is involved in the Research Area's Lead Project “Caring – Valuating – Transitioning”.

Since February 2026, Isabel Rosa Marie Herrle has been working as a research associate in the Research Area “Economy and Civil Society” at the IRS in a subproject of the Collaborative Research Center 1265 “Re-Figuration of Spaces”.