Tilman Brück
Professor Tilman Brück is the Founder and Director of ISDC. He is also Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Team Leader – Development Economics at IGZ near Berlin, Research Affiliate of the Institute for Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon, and Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn. More details.
Anastasia Aladysheva
Dr Anastasia Aladysheva is a Research Affiliate at ISDC and a Senior Researcher with the SIPRI Life in Kyrgyzstan project, focussing on impact evaluations of development and peacebuilding programmes in Kyrgyzstan. Her primary research interests include development economics, impact evaluation methods, social and behavioural economics, and political economy. More details.
Ghassan Baliki
Dr Ghassan Baliki from Lebanon is a Senior Researcher at ISDC and a research associate at IGZ. Ghassan has a doctoral degree from Humboldt University of Berlin. He is currently co-managing in collaboration with the London School of Economics (LSE) a project to collect conflict event data in Syria. More details.
Carlos Bozzoli
Dr Carlos Guillermo Bózzoli a Research Affiliate at ISDC and Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (UTDT) in Buenos Aires and Research Affiliate at ISDC. He holds a B.A. degree summa cum laude (best GPA of the class) from UTDT. He has a PhD degree from the University of Princeton (U.S.A). More details.
Sara El-Madani
Sara El-Madani is a Research Affiliate at ISDC and a PhD researcher and lecturer at the department of International and Institutional Economics at the European University Flensburg, in Germany. Her research focuses on the socioeconomic consequences of the Israeli occupation in Palestine. More details.
Damir Esenaliev
Dr Damir Esenaliev is a Research Affiliate at ISDC and a Senior Researcher at the Life in Kyrgyzstan project at SIPRI. He has worked at SIPRI since April 2013. Previously he worked at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). Dr Esenaliev holds a PhD degree from Humboldt University of Berlin. More details.
Neil Ferguson
Dr Neil Ferguson is a Senior Researcher at ISDC and a Senior Research Associate at BIGS in Potsdam. He obtained his PhD in Economics in July 2013, from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, focusing on theoretical and empirical analysis about the role of multiple aggressors in civil conflicts. His current interests lie in a broad cross-section of theoretical and empirical conflict and development topics. More details.
Mariia Iamshchikova
Mariia Iamshchikova is a Research Affiliate at ISDC, she works with the ‘Life in Kyrgyzstan’ Study team.
Patricia Justino
Professor Patricia Justino is a Research Affiliate at ISDC and a development economist specialising in applied microeconomics. Her current research work focuses on the impact of violence and conflict on household welfare and local institutional structures, the microfoundations of violent conflict and the implications of violence for economic development. Other research interests include the measurement of multidimensional inequality and poverty and their effects on social development and economic growth. More details.
Sindu Kebede
Dr Sindu Kebede is a Research Affiliate at ISDC and a post-doctoral researcher at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, and a Research Affiliate at ISDC. Currently, she is working in the HORTINLEA project on issues of poverty and food security in Kenya. She completed her doctoral studies at Humboldt University of Berlin. More details.
Charles Martin-Shields
Dr Charles Martin-Shields is a Research Affiliate at ISDC. He is currently a researcher at the German Institute for Development Policy/Deutsches Institut fuer Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) in Bonn, Germany where he does research on development policy and migration. His research areas include international development, peace and conflict processes, and the politics of digital technology. More details.
Sami Miaari
Dr Sami Miaari is a Research Affiliate at ISDC. He is Lecturer at the Department of Labor Studies in Tel-Aviv University, Israel, and a Research Affiliate at ISDC. His research focuses on the labour economics, economic causes and consequences of conflict, including on the economic costs of political instability and the relationship between economic shocks and conflict. More details.
Dr. Maren M. Michaelsen is a Research Affiliate at ISDC. Her primary research interest lies in the micro-dynamics of conflict, especially the consequences of life-threats on psychological well-being, educational outcomes and economic behaviour. More details.
Bakhrom Mirkasimov
Bakhrom Mirkasimov is a Research Affiliate at ISDC and a lecturer at Westminster International University in Tashkent (WIUT). He is a PhD student in Economics at Humboldt University. In his PhD thesis, he empirically analyzes the relationship between migration, remittances and the human capital of those left behind and the transfer behavior in migrant sending communities. More details.
Eleonora Nillesen
Dr Eleonora Nillesen is a Research Affiliate at ISDC and Research Fellow at UNU-MERIT. Her research interests include the impact of conflict on socio-economic outcomes in Sub-Sahara Africa. Eleonora obtained a PhD in development economics from Wageningen University, the Netherlands, in June 2010. Before joining UNU-MERIT, Eleonora held research positions at Wageningen University, ETH Zürich and DIW Berlin. More details.
Jérôme Ouedraogo
Jérôme Ouedraogo is a Research Affiliate at ISDC and an Economist-Statistician at Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security in Burkina Faso. He is currently a Visiting Researcher at UNECA, where he supports data collection, analysis and outreach for the Impact Evaluation of a WFP project on Malnutrition Interventions in Niger. More information.
Myroslava Purska
Myroslava Purska is a Project Manager at ISDC. She has extensive experience in developing and implementing a management, communication and dissemination framework for a number of EU-funded research projects. She received Master degrees in humanities from Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, and Lviv National University, Ukraine. More details.
Eva Raiber
Eva Raiber is a Visiting Researcher at ISDC. She is pursuing her Ph.D. at the Toulouse School of Economics and is a Doctoral Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study Toulouse. She has previously been a Visiting Ph.D. Student at the European School of Management and Technology Berlin. More details.
Philipp Schröder
Dr Philipp Schröder is a Research Affiliate at ISDC and a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Freiburg. His current research project focuses on the ethnography of trade and translocal livelihoods in Eurasia, in particular Kyrgyzstan, Russia and China. More details.
Janina Isabel Steinert is a Research Affiliate at ISDC and a PhD researcher at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention at the University of Oxford (UK). Her research focuses on experimental evidence from South Africa examinig the impact of a financial literacy and parenting programme on financial behaviour and financial wellbeing. More details.
Wolfgang Stojetz
Dr Wolfgang Stojetz is a Senior Researcher at ISDC and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Economics at Humboldt-University of Berlin. Previously, he was a Predoctoral Research Fellow at Yale University and a Research Affiliate at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). Wolfgang’s primary research interests are the economic, social and institutional interactions of development and violent mass conflict. More details.
Philip Verwimp
Professor Philip Verwimp is a Research Affiliate at ISDC. He currently holds the Marie and Alain Philippson Chair in Sustainable Human Development at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles, where he is also a Fellow of ECARES. He obtained his PhD in economics in 2003 from Leuven. More details.
Partners
The ISDC works in close collaboration with a range of international experts on security and development who contribute to different projects at various times.
One such group of experts are the Affiliates of the Households in Conflict Network (HiCN). Their details can be found here.
