
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 (0)30. 288 86 59 – 24
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Researchers

Nicholas Courtman
Researcher
Tel.: +49 30. 288 86 59 – 37
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Dr. Nils Friedrichs
Researcher
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

Dr. Mohini Lokhande
Researcher and Deputy Head of Research Unit
Tel.: +49 30. 288 86 59 – 26
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Fields of expertise:
cultural diversity in the educational system, international students, interventions improving educational equality

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:
environmental migration, media and migration, migrant organisations, Sociopolitical concepts of cultural diversity

Maximilian Müller
Researcher
Tel.: +49 30. 288 86 59 – 14
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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

Dr. Timo Tonassi
Researcher
Tel.: +49 30. 288 86 59 – 30
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Fields of expertise:
media and migration, political integration, refugees and asylum

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

Dr. Margret Karsch
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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Office of the Managing Director

Katrin Dölle
Office and Event Manager
Tel.: +49 30. 288 86 59 – 10
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Iryna Homan
Accounting and HR management
Telefon: +49 30. 288 86 59 – 28
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Other team members

Mai-Linh Ho Dac
Student Assistant, Study DAAD-Programmes
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Anita Orkiszewska
Student Assistant, administration and event management
Tel.: +49 30. 288 86 59 – 55
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