Team
Management
Dr.in 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
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
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@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. John Bunzl
Affiliated Researcher
Areas of Expertise: Middle East, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Islamophobia
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
