University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE)

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

 

Dr Carmen Wunderlich

carmen.wunderlich@uni-due.de

Tel. +49 (0) 203 379-2043

Twitter: @CarmenWunderlic

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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.
  • Multilateral Arms Control
  • Nuclear Disarmament/TPNW
  • Nuclear Non-Proliferation/NPT
  • Global Nuclear Order
  • Norms and Nuclear Weapons
  • Gender and Nuclear Weapons
  • Trust and Nuclear Verification
  • Norms Research in IR

Dr. Leonardo Bandarra

leonardo.bandarra@uni-due.de

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
  • Nuclear Non-Proliferation,
  • Social-Constructivist and Critical International Relations Theory,
  • Nuclear Verification and Trust,
  • Cold War History under a Global South Perspective,
  • Latin American Politics, with a focus on Brazil and Argentina,
  • Western European politics, with a focus on Germany

Lena, Herholz 

lena.herholz@stud.uni-due.de

Research Assistant with the project “VeSPoTec: Centre for Integrated Interdisciplinary Nuclear Research”, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
  • Trust and Nuclear Verification

Sönnichsen, Arne

Research Associate

Tel. +49 (0) 203 379-2052

arne.soennichsen@uni-due.de

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.

 

  • Space Policy
  • Militarization and Securitization of Outer Space
  • ASAT weapons
  • Commercialization of Outer Space and New Space
  • Science and Technology Studies