Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - TRANSMIT

The TRANSMIT-MENA team at Humboldt-University

 

Dr.rer.med. Laura Hertner [BIM-HU]

Laura Hertner, Dr.rer.med. Psychology, works as a research associate on the impact of (refugee) migration-related factors on mental health and researches health services regarding their barriers for people with migration history. In TRANSMIT, she has been strengthening the Mental Health and psychological distress research focus in the MENA team since January 2023. Laura believes that mental health cannot be captured entirely at the level of the individual, but requires a holistic view of the socio-ecological context. Laura is doing her PhD at Charité Universitätsmedizin Campus Mitte in the research group transcultural psychiatry on susbtance use in the context of refugee migration.

 

Dr. Nader Talebi [BIM-HU]

Dr. Nader Talebi is a Berlin-based researcher at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He studied software engineering and sociology and finished his PhD at Lancaster University on state power and revolution in Iran. As a researcher at the Berlin Institute for Integration and Migration Research (BIM) and before at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES) at the University of Mannheim, he is interested in studying states, social movements, nationalism and migration in the Middle East as well as politics of knowledge production on the region. In particular, he explores regimes of mobility and their relations with narratives of migration and citizenship in the ME. Apart from being part of the TRANSMIT team, he co-founded and currently co-leading MERGE, a collaborative research network bringing together scholars interested in migration and the Middle East.

 

M.Sc. Lidwina Gundacker [IAB]

Lidwina Gundacker is a migration and integration researcher with a background in sociology, politics and economics, based at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg, Germany. In the TRANSMIT project, she is involved in all aspects of the survey data collections in Lebanon and Turkey. In her research, she targets the integration processes of refugees, the selectivity of migration processes as well as methodological aspects of data collection and data quality.