Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Prof. Marcel Robischon is a forest scientist, plant biologist and head of the Division of Agricultural Ecology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His scientific focus includes agricultural ecology and in particular developmental biology and ecology of woody plants. He further studies world natural and agricultural heritage in agricultural learning and teaching.

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Faculty of Life Sciences
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Prof. Dr. Stephan Breidbach holds a PhD in Foreign Language Pedagogy and is a trained secondary teacher of English, Social Studies/History, and Drama. He heads the English Language Education unit and currently serves as Director of the Professional School of Education at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His research focuses on CLIL, teacher/learner identities, foreign language teaching policies, and sociocultural contexts of language education. He is involved in several international research projects. He works with the Circle U. TENet group aiming for sustainable educational innovation in initial teacher education across Circle U. based on international mobility formats and research-driven professional learning.

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Faculty of Languages and Literatures
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Anne Enderwitz is Professor of English Literature at HU Berlin. Her research interests range from early modern theatre to contemporary fiction and from literature and economics to climate narratives. As academic chair for Circle U. she explores the role of narrative in general and speculative fiction in particular in negotiating the climate crisis.

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Faculty of Language, Literature and Humanities
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Heike Wiese holds the chair of German in Multilingual Contexts at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, after a professorship at University of Potsdam and visiting posts at Yale University and Brandeis University. Wiese is a member of the Academia Europaea and of the German Council for Migration, as well as a speaker of the Centre “Language in Urban Diversity”. She is an expert on the dynamics of multilingual settings, with foci on grammatical developments and on monolingual ideologies, linguistic discrimination and empowerment. In outreach activities, Wiese cooperates with multilingual communities, kindergartens and schools, educational policy makers and museums.

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Faculty of Language, Literature and Humanities
heike.wiese@hu-berlin.de

Gökce Yurdakul is Georg Simmel Professor of Diversity and Social Conflict at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Director of the Berlin Institute of Migration and Integration Research (BIM). Her areas of interest are gender, immigration, citizenship. Her research has been funded by national and international grants. She was a visiting scholar at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at the Harvard University in 2019. She wrote and edited five books as well as numerous articles and book chapters. Yurdakul is currently co-editing the Oxford Handbook on Intersectional Approach to Migration, Gender, and Sexuality scheduled to be published in 2025.

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Director, Berlin Institute for Migration and Integration Research
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Hannes Grandits is professor of Southeast European history at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin where he teaches the history of Southeast and Central Europe, with a special interest also in European com-parative and global perspectives.

Among other things, he is the author of the recently published mono-graph The End of Ottoman Rule in Bosnia (Routledge 2021), the co-editor, with K. Clewing, of Staat-lichkeit und Politik in Sudosteuropa nach 1800 (De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2024), and one of the co-authors of Phantomgrenzen im ostlichen Europa (Wallstein 2015). He is also – with Heike Wieters – in charge of the international study program “Joint Master European History.”

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hannes.grandits@hu-berlin.de
Faculty of Philosophy
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Claudia-Y. Matthes is a Senior Lecturer at HU Berlin’s Department of Social Sciences and Director of its international MA Programmes. She has been a Circle U Chair for Democracy already since 2021 and is currently also leading the Jean Monnet Chair "ShapingEU". Her specialisation includes European integration, comparative democracy studies, institutional and actor-centred approaches to political science and German domestic politics. Since 2016, she has been acting as the department’s Erasmus Coordinator and teaches regularly at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara/Turkey and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Heike Wieters has been Junior Professor of Historical European Studies at the Institute of History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since October 2019. Together with Hannes Grandits, she coordinates the Master of European History and won the Humboldt Award for Good Teaching in 2023 (also together with H. Grandits). The internationalization of teaching and research is a particular concern of hers.

Her research focuses on the contemporary history of European integration, global welfare (state) history – especially pension provision in Europe – and on the history of transnational relations and interactions between state and private actors in business and society.

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Department of History
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

I am a full professor of Applied Geography and Spatial Planning at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and hold (Diploma) degrees in Sociology and Urban Planning. Empirical investigation into urban and regional development processes, with a particular focus on the (conflicting) interests and strategies of societal actors, is at the heart of my academic interest. Currently, I deal with the following topics: i) Localism and local conflict,  ii) Suburbanization and urban sprawl as contested issues of politics and planning, iii) Housing. Besides, I also like reflecting on what I am doing and whom it should be helpful for. Hence, the study of iv) opportunities and pitfalls of applied research is a fourth interest of mine.

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Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Pascal Grosse is a historian and practising neurologist with a sub-specialisation in neurological sleep medicine. He studied medicine, history, psychology, and history of medicine at Freie Universität Berlin and has been working at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin since graduation. The focus in his historical work lies on the theory and practises of biopolitics including especially European and German colonialism, but also many other topics with bio-political implications. He has also become involved in innovations in medical education, as such he currently serves as an Academic Chair in the Circle U - European University Alliance to push forward topics related to Global Health in a broad European context.

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Faculty of Medicine
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
pascal.grosse@charite.de

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