The members of the board
Full members
Prof. Dr. Christiane Brosius (Spokesperson)
brosius@hcts.uni-heidelberg.de
Christiane Brosius has been Professor of Visual and Media Anthropology at the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies since 2009. She is head of the international research project “Heritage as Placemaking. The Politics of Solidarity and Erasure in South Asia.” She is a founding member and spokesperson of the “Shaping Asia” network initiative and the online platform Tasveer Ghar (“House of Images”) since 2006, project manager of the EU-funded HERA project “Creating the ‘New’ Asian Woman: Entanglements of Urban Space, Cultural Encounters and Gendered Identities in Shanghai and Delhi,“ project manager of the partnership network ”Urban Transformation and Placemaking: Fostering Learning from South Asia and Germany.” Since 2018, project manager of the binational Nepal Heritage Documentation Project (NHDP), a digital open-access database on endangered cultural heritage in the Kathmandu Valley Brosius is a board member of HeiUP and HCDH (Digital Heritage). Member of the FI TCH board since 2020, spokesperson since 2021. Research areas: Cultural heritage, natural disasters, and urban transformations in South Asia; aging and youth culture in South Asia; art production as a social resource; transcultural and transregional challenges in regional research.
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Annette Haußmann
annette.haussmann@ts.uni-heidelberg.de
Annette Haußmann is a junior professor (tenure track) for practical theology with a focus on pastoral care theory, director of the Center for Pastoral Care of the Protestant Church in Baden, responsible for training vicars in the field of pastoral care, and a psychological psychotherapist specializing in cognitive behavioral therapy. Since 2020, she has been a member of the FI TCH Board, where she is involved in the thematic focus “Cultural Heritage in the Context of Social Transformations and Turbulence: Negotiation Processes and Coping Strategies.” Research areas: empirical research on religion and spirituality; interdisciplinary dialogue between theology and psychology; individual and societal religious transformation processes; health and religion; spiritual care; caring communities; intercultural and intergenerational religious development processes; digitalization and pastoral care/spiritual care; mental health promotion; suicide prevention.
Prof. Dr. Ekkehart Reimer
Ekkehart Reimer has been Chair of Public Law, European and International Tax Law and Director of the Institute for Financial and Tax Law since 2006. Participation in the European Research Training Group “System Transformation and Economic Integration in a Converging Europe” (2007-2009), the interdisciplinary doctoral program “Reforms of Tax and Social Systems” (2007-2010), the International Max Planck Research School for Successful Dispute Resolution (IMPRS-SDR), and the interdisciplinary doctoral program “Digital Law.” Reimer has been a member of the FI TCH Board since 2020. Research areas: constitutional law, administrative law (in particular municipal law, financial and tax law) and their external relations; comparative law (also from a historical perspective); European integration law; transformation processes and media change in law (in particular the digitization of law), legal norms as intangible cultural heritage.
Prof. Dr. Stefan Trautmann
stefan.trautmann@awi.uni-heidelberg.de
Stefan Trautmann has been Professor of Behavioral Finance at Heidelberg University since 2014. He is associate editor of several international journals (including the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization since 2022 and the Journal of Economic Psychology since 2015), member of the Scientific Board of the Society for Experimental Finance, member of the selection committees for NWO-Rubicon (Netherlands, 2016) and ATTRACT (Luxembourg, 2018), and member of the Leibniz Society's Senate Committee on Competition (since 2024). Member of the Expert Commission for Risk Research and Risk Perception of the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) since 2014. Trusted lecturer of the German National Academic Foundation since 2018, member of the Academic Senate of Heidelberg University from 2019 to 2023, director of the Alfred Weber Institute since 2023. He has been a member of the FI TCH Board since 2020. Research areas: Decision-making under risk and uncertainty; economic aspects of ethical behavior; social norms; economics and religion.
Prof. Dr. Thomas Schmitt
thomas.schmitt@hcch.uni-heidelberg.de
Thomas Schmitt has been Professor of Cultural Heritage and Cultural Property Protection since 2020 and supervises the MA program of the same name at the Heidelberg Center for Cultural Heritage (HCCH). His disciplinary background is in human geography. Since 2020, he has been a permanent guest on the board of the flagship initiative Transforming Cultural Heritage; since 2023, he has been a member of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Committee of the German UNESCO Commission and the Archaeological Commission of Trier. Research areas: UNESCO heritage conventions and their implementation from social and cultural science perspectives, from local case studies to global developments; the EU's European Capital of Culture program (DFG project 2017-2023); institutionalization of provenance research in Germany; activist initiatives on issues of memory and remembrance; co-radicalization and Islam in Germany (ongoing BMBF project).
Prof. Dr. Dirk Werle (stellvertretender Sprecher)
dirk.werle@gs.uni-heidelberg.de
Dirk Werle has been Professor of Modern German Literature at Heidelberg University since 2015. He is spokesperson for the doctoral program “What is Tradition?” (2016-2019), member of the board of the Grimmelshausen Society since 2016, coordinator of the HEIKAexplore research bridge “Text Worlds and Knowledge Research” (2017-2018), co-initiator of the research network “Early Modern Southwest” since 2017, editor of the journal ‘Euphorion’ since 2022, editor of the series “Das Abendland. Neue Folge” series published by Vittorio Klostermann since 2018. Since 2021, he has been deputy spokesperson for FI TCH. Research areas: European literary history in the context of intellectual history since the 16th century; theory and methodology of literary studies; patterns of description in literary and cultural history (tradition, fame, translation, time); history of the humanities and cultural studies; literature as (im)material cultural heritage; genre history in the early modern period (poetry, fictional narrative, epic verse).
Representative members
Prof. Dr. Diamantis Panagiotopoulos
diamantis.panagiotopoulos@zaw.uni-heidelberg.de
Diamantis Panagiotopoulos is a professor of classical archaeology. He was managing director of the Institute for Classical Archaeology and Byzantine Archaeology (2016–2020) and a member of the board of the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” (2012–2018). He participated in SFB 933 “Material Text Cultures” (2011-2015), was director of the Heidelberg Corpus of Minoan and Mycenaean Seals, and head of the interdisciplinary project “The Minoan Koumasa. Reconstruction of an Archaeological Landscape” (since 2012), head of the DFG project “Minoan Seal Glyptics between Corpus-like Recording and 3D Forensics. A Multidisciplinary Documentation of 900 Unpublished Seals from the Archaeological Museum of Heraklion“ (2016-2019), Head of the BMBF Project ”ErKon3D. Indexing and Contextualization of Aegean Seals and Seal Impressions through 3D Forensics” (2018-2021). Research areas: landscape archaeology; archaeological theory formation; visual anthropology; transculturality; strategies for the preservation and development of cultural heritage.
Prof. Dr. Irina Podtergera
irina.podtergera@slav.uni-heidelberg.de
Irina Podtergera has been Professor of Slavic Linguistics at Heidelberg University since 2018. She is collaborating on the Church Slavonic-Greek edition project of the Patristic Commission of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, “East Slavic Liturgical Menologies of the 11th–13th Centuries.” Research assistant in the project “SlaVaComp – COMPuter-assisted investigation of VAriability in Church Slavonic” (2012-2013), research assistant in the academic service at the Slavic Seminar of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (as part of the Margarete von Wrangell habilitation program for women) (2013-2016), visiting professor for Slavic classical philology and Balkan studies at the University of Vienna (winter semester 2016/17), collaborator on the project “Covacs: Corpus-assisted analysis of morphosyntactic variability in varieties of Church Slavonic” (2017). Research areas: language history, digital humanities, editorial philology, language contact, written linguistics, history of concepts, historical multilingualism, construction grammar, digital lexicography.
Prof. Dr. Markus Pohlmann
markus.pohlmann@mwi.uni-heidelberg.de
Markus Pohlmann has been Professor of Sociology with a focus on organizational sociology at the Max Weber Institute at Heidelberg University (MWI) since 2003. He heads the Heidelberg Research Group for Organization Studies (HeiGOS) and the Heidelberg Research Centre for Law, Society, and Institutions (HCLSI). He conducts research projects on organizational crime and prevention, as well as in the field of management and medical research. At the same time, he is leading the interdisciplinary project Transforming Cultural Heritage in 3D as part of the Flagship. Among other things, he is the transfer officer in the RC of FoF4 and deputy director of the MWI. He is also a member of the scientific advisory board of the German Institute for Compliance (DICO). Research areas: Organizational crime, compliance and prevention, management and career, and cultural heritage in 3D.
Dr. Gudrun-Christine Schimpf
gudrun.schimpf@csi.uni-heidelberg.de
Gudrun-Christine Schmipf has been a research assistant at the CSI research center of the Max Weber Institute for Sociology since 2014. She has been involved in the EU-funded projects TEPSIE “The theoretical, empirical and policy foundations for building social innovation in Europe” (2012-2014) and CrESSI “Creating Economic Space for Social Innovation” (2014-2018), as well as the RUN (Rural Urban Nutrient Partnership) project, funded by the BMBF (2019-2024). She was also coordinator of the TRN “Endowments, Donations, Fundraising in the Longue Durée” (2020-2023). She is currently project manager in WiWiSoGE “Impact of Knowledge Transfer in the Social Sciences and Humanities” and a member of ITISS “Innovation Trajectories in Social Services,” co-funded by the SNF and the DFG. Since the launch of the Flagship Initiative “Transforming Cultural Heritage,” she has been involved in various ways in research and exchange, including as a project partner in the Research Tandem “Cultural Landscape as a Resource for Social Innovation. A Contribution to the (Re-)Vitalization of Marginal Regions” since 2021. Research areas: Social innovations in a historical context, cultural heritage, knowledge transfer.
Prof. Dr. Guido Sprenger
Guido Sprenger has been a professor at the Institute of Ethnology at Heidelberg University since 2010. He has been conducting research on ethnic minorities in the highlands of Laos since 2000. His publications include Die Männer, die den Geldbaum fällten: Konzepte von Austausch und Gesellschaft bei den Rmeet von Takheung (The Men Who Felled the Money Tree: Concepts of Exchange and Society among the Rmeet of Takheung) (2006), Animism in Southeast Asia (ed. with Kaj Århem, 2016) and Plural Ecologies in Southeast Asia: Hierarchies, Conflicts, and Coexistence (ed. with Kristina Großmann, Timo Duile, and Michaela Haug, 2023). He has also published numerous articles in academic journals such as the Journal of Asian Studies, Hau: The Journal of Ethnographic Theory, and Social Analysis. Research areas: Ritual, intangible cultural heritage of Southeast Asia, exchange, human-environment relations, animism, social structure, ethnicity, Southeast Asia, especially mainland.
