Expert Council
Expert Advice on Migration and Integration
Berlin Office
The staff members of the Berlin office
Managing Director
Section Heads
Dr Holger Kolb
Head of Annual Report Unit & Deputy Managing Director of the SVR
Tel +49 30. 288 86 59 – 16
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Fields of expertise:
migration management and comparative policy analysis
Dr Jan Schneider
Head of Research Unit
Tel +49 30. 288 86 59 – 22
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Fields of expertise:
refugee and migration policy in Germany and the EU
Barbara Stark
Head of Administration
Tel +49 30. 288 86 59 – 24
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Researchers
Dr Nicholas Courtman
Researcher
Tel +49 30. 288 86 59 – 37
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Fields of expertise:
Citizenship Law, History of Migration, Policy and Politics of Naturalisation
Dr Nils Friedrichs
Researcher and currently Deputy Head of Research Unit
Tel +49 30. 288 86 59 – 15
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Fields of expertise:
prejudice research, quantitative research methods and statistics, religious diversity in Europe, social cohesion
Dr Mohini Lokhande
Researcher and Deputy Head of Research Unit
on parental leave
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Fields of expertise:
cultural diversity in the educational system, international students, interventions improving educational equality
Franziska Loschert
Researcher
Tel +49 30. 288 86 59 – 34
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Fields of expertise:
business interests, EU agencies in the field of foreign and security policy, labour migration policies in Germany and the EU, politicisation of immigration in the public
Simon Morris-Lange
Researcher
Tel +49 30. 288 86 59 – 23
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Fields of expertise:
educational inequality, skilled migration
Dr Marie Mualem Sultan
Researcher
Tel +49 30. 288 86 59 – 19
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Fields of expertise:
concepts of multiculturalism and political theories, discourse analysis, environmental migration, media and migration, migrant organisations
Maximilian Müller
Researcher
Tel +49 30. 288 86 59 – 14
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Fields of expertise:
Health and Migration, health inequality, Population composition and demographic development, Quantitative Analyses
Karoline Popp
Researcher
Tel +49 30. 288 86 59 – 32
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Fields of expertise:
crises, environmental migration, flight and mixed migration, migration governance
Franziska Schork
Researcher
Tel +49 30. 288 86 59 – 34
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Fields of expertise:
different types of employment, inequalities in the labour market, methods of empirical social research and mixed methods
Alex Wittlif
Researcher
Tel +49 30. 288 86 59 – 31
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Fields of expertise:
health inequality, quantitative analysis, survey research on integration
Charlotte Wohlfarth
Researcher and Deputy Head of Annual Report Unit
Tel +49 30. 288 86 59 – 17
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Fields of expertise:
integration policy, international students
Communication
Meike Giordono-Scholz
Communications Manager
Tel +49 30. 288 86 59 – 18
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Melissa Koch
Communications Manager
Tel +49 30. 288 86 59 – 25
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Sabine Schwebel
Communications Manager
Tel +49 30. 288 86 59 – 29
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Administration
Iryna Homan
Accounting and HR Management
Tel +49 30. 288 86 59 – 28
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Mirko Preugschat
Office and Event Manager
Tel +49 30. 288 86 59 – 10
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Other team members
Yousra Baack
Student Assistant, Scientific Staff
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Valentin Launhardt
Student Assistant, administration and event management
Tel +49 30. 288 86 59 – 55
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Anita Orkiszewska
Student Assistant, administration and event management
Tel +49 30. 288 86 59 – 55
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