Team
Management
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Saskia Stachowitsch
Scientific Director
+43 (0)1 581 11 06 DW 23
saskia.stachowitsch@oiip.ac.at
Areas of Expertise: EU-Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy, Conflict and political violence,...Security Concepts
Mag. Christian Arthaber
Managing Director
Dr. Cengiz Günay
Vice-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
Dr. Faruk Ajeti
Research Fellow
+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.
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
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
Fellows
Columba Achilleos-Sarll, PhD
Affiliated Researcher
c.achilleos-sarll@warwick.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. Yasmin Chilmeran
Ernst Mach Fellow
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
Ernst Mach Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Politics of international interventions in conflict affected-contexts and post-conflict transition, focusing on the Middle East and North Africa region
Lawreen Gyan-Addo, MA
IMSSIS Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Law and policy on the European asylum and immigration system, border control, and intersection between critical security studies and technology
Smera Jayadeva, BA
IMSSIS Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Multi-disciplinary and postcolonial approach to geopolitics in the digital era
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
Fazal Wahab, BA
IMSSIS Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Conflict and Violence, Violent Extremism and Radicalization that Lead to Terrorism (VERLT) and counterterrorism policies
Affiliated Researchers
Dr. John Bunzl
Affiliated Researcher
Areas of Expertise: Middle East, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Islamophobia
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. Dr. Heinz Gärtner
Affiliated Researcher
http://homepage.univie.ac.at/heinz.gaertner
heinz.gaertnerunivie.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
