Prof. Wolfgang Muno is working as the Chair of Comparative Politics at the University of Rostock. After studying and habilitating at the University of Mainz in Political Science he has been working and researching in the fields of comparative politics and democratization, populism in historical and comparative perspectives, and regionalism in Latin America.
Prof. Hwi Park is working as the associate professor of the Division of International Studies at Ewha Woman’s University in Seoul, South Korea. He has been working there as a professor at the Department of International Studies since 2005. He graduated with a Ph.D. in International Politics at the Northwestern University in the United States in 1999. Professor Park is working and researching in the fields of international security, relations of Korea and the US as well as East Asian International Relations and Inter-Korean Relations.
Prof. Oliver Plessow is a university professor for Didactics of history at the University of Rostock. He studied teaching in the subjects of German and history as well as German language and political science and contemporary history in Münster and graduated with his Ph.D. in medieval history in 2003. He is working and researching on the pedagogical approach on mass crime, war violence and experiences of dictatorships and its representations in media, historical culture, commemorative culture and transnational Holocaust education.
Prof. Markus Rehberg is a professor for civil law, German and international economic law, legal theory, and legal economics at the University of Rostock. He studied law in Heidelberg and Cambridge and further studied political economics in Berlin and Hagen. After graduating with his Ph.D. in Berlin he began working in Munich, reaching his habilitation and teaching license at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He is working and researching contract law, international economic law, legal economics, and legal theory.
Prof. Daniel Stockemer is working as a full professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Ottawa and has been working at said university since 2010. He studied Political Science at the University of Connecticut and the University of Mannheim. He received his Ph.D. in 2010 in Connecticut and started working at the University of Ottawa in the department of Comparative Politics. He is working and researching in the fields of comparative politics, political behavior, populism and political representation and participation, right-wing extremism in Europe, and quantitative and qualitative research methods.
Prof. Heike Trappe is the chair-holder of the department of Sociology with the main focus on family demographics at the University of Rostock. She has been working as a professor since 2007 and worked at different universities in Germany and the United States such as the Havard University in Cambridge, USA during a research year in 2003. Professor Trappe studied Sociology at the Public University in Berlin and received her habilitation there in 2006. She is currently working and researching on social inequality and gender, research on the labor market, family and life course, gender-specific division of labor in partnership and family as well as assisted reproduction.