The University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) is one of the largest public research universities in Northeast Germany, and it is part of the University Alliance Metropolis Ruhr. The Institute of Political Science at the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) is the largest political science teaching and research institution in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW). The Department of International Relations and Development Policy’s unique research profile focuses on processes of global (dis)ordering and its normative foundations, inter alia in the realm of nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, as well as outer space. Since April 2022, the Department of International Relations and Development Policy co-hosts a promising project on trust-building in nuclear verification as part of the Center for Integrated Interdisciplinary Nuclear Verification Research (VeSPoTec), funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), and conducted in collaboration with the RWTH Aachen, and the Forschungszentrum Jülich.
Contact information
University of Duisburg-Essen | Institute of Political Science | Department of International Relations and Development Policy
Forthausweg 2, 47057 Duisburg, Germany
Tel.: +49 (0) 203 379-0
Website: https://www.uni-due.de/politik/ (Institute of Political Science) | https://www.lehrstuhl-ibep.de/ (Department)
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ifp_ude
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-duisburg-essen/
Point of contact
Dr Carmen Wunderlich, carmen.wunderlich@uni-due.de
The team
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Dr Carmen Wunderlich Tel. +49 (0) 203 379-2043 Twitter: @CarmenWunderlic |
Carmen Wunderlich is Akademische Rätin auf Zeit (eq. to non-tenured Assistant Professor) in the Department of International Relations and Development Policy at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, and Associated Researcher at the Peace Research Center Prague. Her research focuses on global norm dynamics and practices of norm contestation with a specific focus on issues related to the control of weapons of mass destruction, nuclear disarmament, and norm contestation by self-organized working children. She is Principal Investigator of a subproject on trust-building and verification in the consortium “VeSPoTec: Centre for Integrated Interdisciplinary Nuclear Research”, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. |
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Dr. Leonardo Bandarra Twitter: @leocbandarra |
Leonardo Bandarra is a postdoctoral researcher with the project Associated with the Department of International Relations and Development of the University of Duisburg-Essen. Senior Research Associate at the Middle East Treaty Organization (METO). He has published extensively on non-proliferation, institutions, nuclear latency and foreign policy with a regional focus on Latin America, Western Europe, and the Middle East |
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Lena, Herholz |
Research Assistant with the project “VeSPoTec: Centre for Integrated Interdisciplinary Nuclear Research”, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research |
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Sönnichsen, Arne Research Associate Tel. +49 (0) 203 379-2052 Twitter: @ArneSonnichsen |
Arne Sönnichsen is research associate and PhD candidate at the Department of International Relations and Development Policy and Coordinator of the SichTRaum (Sicherheit-Technology-Weltraum) network, a research network dedicated to boost interdisciplinary research on outer space and spaceflight (https://www.sichtraum-netzwerk.de/). In his PhD thesis he assess the impact of emerging technologies on processes of ordering, applied to case studies of ASAT weapons, the advent of New Space, and Space Traffic Management.
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