Directorate

Franz Waldenberger Director, Economics and Business Joachim Röhr Administrative Director Barbara Holthus Deputy Director, Sociology

Senior Research Fellows

Steffen Heinrich Head of Social Science Section, Political Science Torsten Weber Head of Humanities Section, Modern East Asian History, Japanese Studies

Susanne Brucksch Social Science, Innovation Studies, Science & Technology Studies Isaac Gagné Managing Editor of Contemporary Japan, Cultural Anthropology Sonja Ganseforth Social Science, Human Geography Barbara Geilhorn Japanese Cultural Studies, Theater and Performance Studies Markus Heckel Economics Hanno Jentzsch Social Science Nora Kottmann Social Science Daniel Kremers Japanese Studies, Political Science

PhD Students

Shu-Hui Lin Law, Art History Florian Purkarthofer Social Sciences, Urban Spaces, Spatial Planning, Critique and Utopia Ineke Zimmermann Japanese Studies

Administration

Keiko Asano Secretary Marga Dinkel Secretary Sven Eichelberg Digital Media & Public Relations Claus Harmer System Administrator Yoko Horikoshi Assistant Librarian Elisabeth Jakubassa Administrative Assistant Nami Nishioka Secretary