Team

CCST

Head of Board

Prof. Dr. Oliver Serfling is Professor of Economic Policy and Development Economics at Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences. He is the academic director of the Master's program Sustainable Development Management. He has led various international consortia with a focus on capacity building in the higher education sector and researches, teaches and publishes on current development policy topics and methodological issues in survey research.

Board members

Bild Prof. Dr. Diana Marquardt	Prof. Dr. Diana Marquardt is a human geographer specializing in sustainability, nature and ecotourism and tourism in developing countries. Her research activities include the analysis and management of ecological, social and economic transformation in tourism.
Bild Prof. Dr. Jakob Lempp	Social transformation research has been one of Prof. Dr. Jakob Lempp's main areas of research for many years. In numerous publications and research projects, he has examined the development of the political and social systems of Central Asian states since their independence in 1991. A second focus of his research work is the analysis of the transformation of the German and European party system.
Bild Prof. Dr. Ingrid Jungwirth

Scientific Associates

Dr. Valerie Dahl	Valerie Dahl is a sociologist of work and organization at the intersection of gender studies. Her research focuses on the transformation of the world of work and gender relations in academia. She is an active member of the Elias Network and publishes on process and figuration sociology. At the HSRW she teaches in the Gender and Diversity, B.A. program.
Bild Dr. Jan-Niklas Rolf	Dr. Jan Niklas Rolf is a lecturer in the study program of International Relations and a researcher at the Competence Center Societal Transformations. His research interests revolve around nationalism, cosmopolitanism and other current issues of (international) politics. He is co-editor of the journal Political Science Applied and co-author of the books Kultur in den internationalen Beziehungen (Springer VS, 2018) and Parteianhängerschaft in Deutschland (Springer VS, 2023).
Bild Sebastian Amrhein	Sebastian Amrhein has several years of experience in the tourism industry on different continents. He is a PhD student at the Radboud University in Nijmegen (RU) in the field of human geography. From this perspective, he analyses the socio-spatial impacts of tourism with the aim of transforming it into a more just and sustainable practice. He is a member of the Arbeitskreis Tourimusforschung (AKTF) and the Association for Tourism and Leisure Education and Research (ATLAS). At the HSRW he teaches on the Sustainable Tourism B.A. and Gender and Diversity, B.A. programmes.
Bild Marius Glassner	Marius Glassner studied social sciences at the Ruhr University in Bochum, where he completed both his Bachelor's and Master's degrees (with a focus on globalization, transnationalization and governance). His areas of interest are the sociology of migration and the sociology of knowledge. He is a research assistant in the TRAM project and was already involved in the pilot project Labor Migration between Borders.
Bild Taisiya Lebedeva	Taisiya Lebedeva holds a master’s degree in Sustainable Development Management and a bachelor’s degree in Economics. She is working as a junior researcher on the topic of “Capacity Building global” within the CCST and the project “TransRegInt – Transformation of the Lower Rhine Region: Innovation, sustainability, participation”. Her research interests are within the field of development economics: aid effectivness, impact evaluation, sustainable transformational change, that with a focus on quantitative methods.
Bild Hanna Berzau	Hanna Berzau holds a Bachelor's degree in Sustainable Tourism and a Master's degree in Sustainable Development. She works as a research assistant for the competence center as part of the TransRegINT project with a focus on social transformations - transformation knowledge in the region. In her previous positions, she worked in the CURE research group at the Ruhr University Bochum on the topic of neighborhood mobility and subsequently in the city government of Kamp-Lintfort in the field of climate adaptation.
Bild Luisa Emelie Baumgart	Luisa Emelie Baumgart holds a master’s degree in Sociology from University College Dublin and a bachelor’s degree in Gender and Diversity studies from Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences. Currently working as a research associate for the topic of societal transformations at the competence center as part of the project TransRegINT, she is also working on her PhD. She has previously worked as a diversity advisor and researched on the interconnections of gender and religion.