2018/19 Mercator-IPC Research Fellowship Program Welcome Event
The new era of the Mercator-IPC Research Fellowship Program within the scope of the IPM-Sabancı University-Stiftung Mercator Initiative, which is in its seventh year, started on October 8, 2018, with the introduction of the program researchers. At the presentation night, the opening speeches were made by Sabancı University Faculty Member and Director Fuat Keyman and Stiftung Mercator Advisory Board Chairman Rüdiger Frohn. After the opening speeches, videos were shown in which senior researchers Atila Eralp and Özcan Mutlu, who will take part in the 2018/19 period of the program, and researchers Annegret Warth, Cem İskender Aydın, Ender Peker, Jannes Tessmann, Joanna Krzeminska, Maissam Nimer and Yohanan Benhaim, summarized their projects.
Fuat Keyman
Fuat Keyman is the Director of the Istanbul Policy Center; Vice President for Institutional Affairs and Social Impact, and Professor of International Relations at Sabancı University. Keyman is a leading political scientist in Turkey and an expert on globalization, democratization, international relations, Turkey – EU relations, Turkish foreign policy, and civil society development.
Atila Eralp
Atila Eralp is a member of the International Advisory Council of Istanbul Policy Center-Sabancı University-Stiftung Mercator Initative. He was a Mercator-IPC Senior Fellow at IPC from 2019 to 2023.
atila.eralp@sabanciuniv.edu
Özcan Mutlu
Özcan Mutlu is a German politician who was a member of the German parliament (Deutscher Bundestag) for the Green Party from 2013 to 2017. During his Bundestag mandate, he was spokesperson for educational policies, served on the Committee on Education, Research and Technology, as well as spokesperson for sport policies and was his parliamentary group’s rapporteur on citizen participation.
oezcan.mutlu@googlemail.com
Annegret Warth
Annegret Warth is an educational scientist focusing on international comparative youth and youth welfare research. Currently, she is in the final stage of her PhD in educational studies at Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg. In her doctoral thesis she is exploring heterogeneous manifestations of youth in Turkey by combining generational, transitional, and youth culture perspectives.
warth@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Cem İskender Aydın
Cem İskender Aydın is an ecological economist working on energy and climate policy, environmental justice and mapping environmental conflicts, and environmental governance.
cemiaydin@gmail.com
Ender Peker
Ender Peker, iklim duyarlı kentsel tasarım alanında uzmanlaşmış bir şehir plancısıdır. Ender, özellikle, yerel halkın sosyo-ekolojik değerlerini dikkate alarak, kentsel yaşamı düzenleyecek yapılı çevrelerin teknik kurallar, yönetmelikler ve kodlarla birlikte tasarlanması üzerinde çalışmaktadır.
pekerender@gmail.com
Jannes Tessmann
Jannes Tessmann is a political scientist working on the governance of global industries. His research explores how states and private sector organizations regulate globally dispersed production networks and how these public and private forms of governance interact with each other. His regional focus is on West Africa, India, and Turkey.
jannes.tessmann@stiftung-mercator.de
Joanna Krzemińska
Joanna Krzemińska studied Dramatic Arts and Social and Cultural Anthropology (BA) and Intercultural Education (MA) at the Free University of Berlin. In view of her degree combination, she developed a particular focus on interdisciplinary research approaches within the intersection of diversity, inclusion, and (inter)cultural education.
j.krzeminska85@gmail.com
Maissam Nimer
Maissam Nimer is a sociologist working in the fields of sociology of migration, education, and gender with a regional focus on the Middle East and Turkey.
msnimer@gmail.com
Yohanan Benhaim
Yohanan Benhaim is a PhD candidate in political science at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University specializing in foreign policy. In his PhD dissertation, he explores the evolution of Turkish foreign policy toward the Kurdish regions in Iraq and Syria (1990–2017).
yohanan.benhaim@live.fr