Since April 2024, Benjamin leads the three-year project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) at LMU Munich. Before that he has been post-doctoral researcher at the Chair of Global Governance and Public Policy at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute for Political Science. His research focuses on international regime complexity, the contestation of international organisations and institutional change in the context of power transitions. In his research, he applies a broad spectrum of methods, ranging from qualitative case studies and network analyses to experimental methods and quantitative regression analyses. 

Email: benjamin.dassler@gsi.lmu.de

Personal Website: https://www.en.gsi.uni-muenchen.de/people/academic/benjamin-dassler/index.html 

After a year of teaching political science methods at the Chair of Empirical Political Research and Policy Analysis, Pia is now a research assistant in the POLCON project at the Global Politics Research Unit of the LMU. She has completed internships at the United Nations Headquarters in New York and at the Syria/Iraq Office of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, where she focused on conflict and peacebuilding. In addition, her research focuses on cybersecurity and international relations, particularly in the context of EU-China relations. Pia participated in a month-long summer university in China to deepen her expertise in this area and is looking forward to her upcoming year-long language study program in Nanjing.

Email: p.blomberg@campus.lmu.de

Nadia is a graduate student in Political Science and has been working in the POLCON research project since April 2024. Previously, she worked as a student research assistant at the Chair for Global Governance at the LMU Munich, where she was involved in a variety of research projects. Within the POLCON project her work is particularly focused on global internet governance and the role of geopolitical swing states. She is also interested in regime complexity and rebel governance in war. Nadia is currently spending a semester abroad at the University of Copenhagen and will complete her master's thesis in spring 2025.