Klara Funke

Associate Fellow

Klara Funke is a doc­toral candidate in politi­cal science at the Technical Uni­versity of Darmstadt. At PRIF, she is an Associate Fellow at the Research Department Transnational Politics and a member of the Ecology, Climate, and Conflict Research Group. Her research focuses, among other things, on mili­tarization and conflict dy­namics in the context of resource extrac­tion, climate protec­tion measures, and (post)­colonial power relations.

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CV

| since 2026
Associate Fellow in the Research Depart­ment Trans­national Politics at PRIF

| 2024–2025
Free research assistance, Conflict and Environ­ment Obser­vatory (CEOBS)

| 2024
Research consul­tancy, Africa Policy Research Insti­tute (APRI)

| 2023–2025
Master of Science, Global Change Manage­ment, Eberswalde Uni­versity for Sustainable Develop­ment, Germany

| 2021–2023
Forschungs­assistent & wissen­schaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Human Rights Watch (HRW), Abteilung Europa und Zentral­asien, Berlin

| 2021
Free research assistance, PAX NGO & Inti­macies of Remote Warfare pro­gramme of Utrecht Uni­versity, Utrecht

| 2020–2021
Master of Arts, Con­flict Studies and Human Rights, Uni­versity of Utrecht, Netherlands

| 2020
Research and advo­cacy internship, Amnesty Inter­national, Europe & Central Asia and Middle East & North Africa divisions, Berlin

| 2019
Research intern­ship, Human Rights Watch, Europe & Central Asia division, Berlin

| 2016–2020
Bachelor of Arts, Area Studies of Af­rica and Asia, Humboldt Uni­versity Berlin, Germany