Team
Management
Dr. Cengiz Günay
Director
+43 (0)1 581 11 06 /16
cengiz.gunay@oiip.ac.at
Areas of Expertise: Democracy and the rise of new forms of authoritarian governance, Neoliberal interventions and their effects, European Neighbourhood Policy, foreign policy-making processes, Islamism
Office Management
Academic Researchers
Clemens Binder, MA
Research Fellow
+43 1 581 11 06 DW 38
clemens.binder@oiip.ac.at
Areas of Expertise: European border and migration policy, critical security studies and politics of technology and security
Dr. Vedran Dzihic
Senior Research Fellow
+43 (0)1 581 11 06 DW 34
vedran.dzihic@oiip.ac.at
Areas of Expertise: EU-Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy, International Institutions,...Political Reform and Transformation Processes, Social Movements and Non-State Actors, State building/Peace Building/Resilience, Comparative Research on the Causes of Wars and Conflicts, Comparative Regional Research
Sophia Fehrenbach, MA
Research Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Polarization, radicalization and political extremism, ISIS returnees, jihadism, conspiracy ideologies and potential prevention efforts, Transformative justice processes
Erik Hacker, LL.M.
Research Fellow
+43 1 581 11 06 - 32
erik.hacker@oiip.ac.at
Areas of Expertise: Terrorism, Radicalisation, Right-wing extremism, Jihadism
Dr. Christian Haddad
Senior Research Fellow
Dr.in Daniela Pisoiu
Senior Research Fellow
+43 1 581 11 06 - 37
daniela.pisoiu@oiip.ac.at
Areas of Expertise: Terrorism, Radicalisation, Extremism, European and International Security, Social Movements Comparative Research on the Causes of Wars and Conflicts
Jakub Zahora, PhD
Ernst Mach Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Critical Security Studies, political ethnography, the politics of visuality and space, humanitarianism, the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Fellows
Dr. Ludmila Bogdan
Ernst Mach Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Labor migration and economic deprivation link, Human trafficking and victimhood, Anti-trafficking information campaigns' effects on public perception, Human traffickers and prison research in Eastern Europe
Allison Castillo Small, BA
IMSSIS Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Connections between gender masculinities, crime and farright extremism, human approaches to CT
Annamaria Kiss, MA
Visiting Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Transnational social movements and armed mobilisation, foreign volunteering in armed conflicts, North and South Caucasus, Russian counterterrorism policy
Dr. Shaimaa Magued
Ernst Mach Fellow
Areas of Expertise: International Relations of the Middle East, Turkish Foreign policy, Turkish-Arab Relations, and Transnational Advocacy, identity politics and their impact on intra-regional dynamics and the nature of interstate relations
Hallie Shlifer, BA
IMSSIS Fellow
Areas of Expertise: East Asian regional security, U.S.-Japan strategic relations, and a critical approach to the impact of technology — particularly surveillance and drones— on gender and security
Sanna Strand, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Military recruitment and retention in Europe; Militarism and military legitimation; Nation branding and national identity; gender relations and gender mainstreaming policies within armed forces
Affiliated Researchers
Columba Achilleos-Sarll, PhD
Affiliated Researcher
c.achilleos-sarll.1@bham.ac.uk
Areas of Expertise: United Nation’s Security Council’s ‘Women, Peace and Security’ (WPS) agenda, feminist and postcolonial theories of International Relations, feminist foreign policy, gender and security, the gendered nature of Brexit, UK foreign policy, and visual politics
Dr. Faruk Ajeti
Affiliated Researcher
+43 1 581 11 06
faruk.ajeti@oiip.ac.at
Areas of Expertise: Foreign Policy, Austrian Foreign Policy, Common Foreign and Security Policy of the EU, European Integration and Europeanisation. His regional focus is on South Eastern Europe and transatlantic relations.
Dr. Yasmin Chilmeran
Affiliated Researcher
Areas of Expertise: Women's participation in peacebuilding, civil society, and the implementation and contestation of international gender frameworks in post-conflict settings, including the Women, Peace and Security agenda
Irene Costantini, PhD
Affiliated Researcher
Areas of Expertise: Politics of international interventions in conflict affected-contexts and post-conflict transition, focusing on the Middle East and North Africa region
Dr. Thomas Eder
Affiliated Researcher
Areas of Expertise: Chinese foreign and security policy, the Belt and Road Initiative, China and international law, European China policy
Univ.-Prof. i.R. Dr. Heinz Gärtner
Affiliated Researcher
http://homepage.univie.ac.at/heinz.gaertner
heinz.gaertner@univie.ac.at
Areas of Expertise: Disarmament, Nuclear non-proliferation, Arms control, The Global Role of the USA,...Emerging Powers, EU-Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy, Austrian Foreign, Security Policy Analysis
Dr. Julia Sachseder
Affiliated Researcher
Areas of Expertise: Political economy and (post)coloniality of (border) security, migration, violence and gender as well as private, non-state and corporate actors in peace and conflict
Dr. Loïc Simonet
Affiliated Researcher
Areas of Expertise: Oil and Gas Pipelines in International Law and International Relations, Disarmament and Arms Control, Border Walls around the world
Dr.in Saskia Stachowitsch
Affiliated Researcher
saskia.stachowitsch@oiip.ac.at
Areas of Expertise: EU-Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy, Conflict and political violence,...Security Concepts
