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Lucas Kluge is a Doctoral researcher in the group "Impacts of climate change on human population dynamics" at the Potsdam institute for climate impact research. His PhD project is titled "Heterogeneity and scale interactions in human migration and displacement" and supervised by Prof. Levermann and Dr. Jacob Schewe

Prior to his position at PIK he worked on complex networks, quantum networks and the numerical simulation of quantum dot lasers. Besides his studies at the Technical University Berlin, he was a visiting scholar at Duke University and University of Crete.

I started my professional career at the age of 22 as a German teacher in Macedonia. After 20 years in teaching and training people, deep in my heart, I am firmly convinced that only passionate learners can make the world a better place.

I speak the most Slavic languages from the Balkan peninsula, German and English as second language and learn Italian. I have a different love relationship to each language I speak and I don't master anyone faultless, not even my mother tongue; o) Healthy mistake management is of great importance in the life long learning. Beside that, the world outside is merciless with multilingual people.

Further in Biography I studied Intercultural Communication, EU Policy and International Organizational Studies. Today I work as Cultural Sensitivity Trainer. But only in the role mother of two multilingual children, I got the idea to found the association, so I can actively support the intercultural coexistence in my new city Darmstadt. Above all, it was important for me to help multilingual children to master and enjoy daily routine with many languages.

Anna Knoll, leads ECDPM’s (www.ecdpm.org) portfolio on migration as Head of the Migration Programme. Anna’s interests and expertise lie in the field of migration in international cooperation between Africa and Europe.

With an academic background in Philosophy and Economics (BA, University of Bayreuth) and in International Political Economy (MSc, London School of Economics) her current research focuses on the interaction between migration, displacement and development processes, the external and development dimension of the EU’s migration and asylum policies, migration in European development policies as well as African narratives, policies and processes on migration.

Anna has carried out policy relevant research for ECDPM including field research in a number of African countries. She has experience in research design and implementation. Next to her role at ECDPM, she is currently pursuing a part-time PhD at the Maastricht School of Governance.

Prior to joining ECDPM, Anna has worked as German Fellow at the UN World Food Programme and as Stagiaire at the European Commission.

Originally from the south of Germany, I got to study political science in Mannheim, Barcelona, and Konstanz (2007-2012), and then to do a PhD in political science in Lund, Sweden (2012-2017). After two subsequent stints as a postdoctoral researcher in Bremen and Lausanne, I moved to Stavanger, Norway in early 2021 to start my current position as an associate professor (førsteamanuensis) of political science.