Dr. Małgorzata Popiołek-Roßkamp
Małgorzata Popiołek-Roßkamp joined the IRS in January 2020 and is a member of the Research Area "Contemporary History and Archive". She works currently on a project on military areas after the withdrawal of the allies in Berlin and Brandenburg as part of the history of transformation.
She studied art history at the Warsaw University and at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (2005–2010) and heritage conservation at the Technische Universität Berlin (2010–2012). In December 2017 she defended her PhD thesis entitled “Warsaw. A Reconstruction that Began Before the War” as a joint agreement between the Technische Universität Berlin and University of Wrocław. Her PhD was published 2021 at the Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh. 2018–2020 she worked at the Centre for Historical Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Berlin on a project on architecture ofGeneralgouvernement during the World War II. She is coeditor of GSU-Blog Stadtgeschichte(n) https://stadthist.hypotheses.org/
She received scholarships from Cusanuswerk, Research Academy Leipzig, DAAD and Museum of Polish History. Her PhD was awarded with the second prize of the German Society of Urban History and Urban Research (GSU) and a Research Prize of the Polish Ambassador in Germany.
Since 2022 she is Equal Opportunities Officer of IRS.