Hanna Pfeifer, Associated Fellow at PRIF and former Head of the Terrorism Research Group, was elected to the Executive Committee of Die Junge Akademie in June. Together with the other members of the Executive Board, she wants to campaign for academic freedom and knowledge transfer.
Die Junge Akademie is the first academy for young academics and artists. It explores the potential and limits of interdisciplinary work and aims to start conversations between science, art and society, and to generate momentum in discussions on science policy. The Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina are the supporting academies.
Hanna Pfeifer is the Head of the Research Area Societal Peace and Internal Security at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg. Until 2024, she headed the Terrorism Research Group at PRIF and is now Associated Fellow at PRIF's Research Department Intrastate Conflict. Her research interests include, inter alia, state and non-state violence and actors in the MENA region.
Further information can be found on the Die Junge Akademie website.