Myriel Julie Mathez
Myriel is a Doctoral Researcher at PRIF in the research group 'Peacekeeping and Conflict Management through the United Nations' in the International Institutions Research Department. Her work aims at integrating academic and practical insights, with her research interests centering around disasters in conflict settings, UN interventions, and (UN) humanitarian, peace, and development work.
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CV
| since September 2025
Doctoral Researcher at PRIF
| 01/2025–09/2025
Carlo-Schmid-Fellow and Consultant at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in the Disaster Risk Reduction and Recovery for Resilience Team, Geneva, Switzerland
| 2021–2024
Master of Arts in International Organisations and Crisis Management at the Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, Germany
| 2022–2023
Semester abroad at Haifa University, Israel and internship at EcoPeace Middle East, Ramallah, Palestine
| 2021–2024
Project Coordinator at Bildungswerk Sachsen der Deutschen Gesellschaft e.V., Leipzig, Germany
| 2019–2021
Bachelor of Arts in Human Rights, University of Malmö, Sweden
| 2020
Semester abroad at the University of Bern, Switzerland
| 2019
Cultural Fellowship in Baku, Azerbaijan
| 2016–2018
Legal Studies at Leipzig University, Germany
Further Activities
| since 2025
Spokesperson for the Junge AFK (“Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung” – Working Group for Peace and Conflict Research)
| since 2024
Voluntary Researcher at the Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research (HIIK) on the Hamas et al.