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We’re happy to welcome Dr. Julia Stefanello Pires as a new postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of International Business, Society and Sustainability (IBSS) at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. Julia joins us with a strong interdisciplinary background in law, human rights, and sustainability, holding two Ph...

The Cluster of Excellence "Transforming Human Rights", funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), will investigate the transformation of human rights in light of five interrelated global megatrends:1) Autocratization, 2) Fragmented economic globalization, 3) International migration, 4) Planetary environmental crises, and 5) Digitalization. Professor Almut Schilling-Vacaflor is one of the Principal Investigators (PIs) of the Cluster of Excellence. Her research will focus on human rights protection in the context of fragmented economic globalization and rights-based approaches for transforming planetary environmental crises.

We are happy to present our newest team member! Anna's research interests include resource extraction, rural livelihoods, the sustainable development goals, social and environmental justice and global value chains, with a special focus on the extractive industries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Anna is curr...

We would like to warmly welcome the new PhD researcher Júlia Berruezo at our chair! Júlia has a Master of Development Studies from the University of Passau and her PhD project will be about “Socio-biodiversity product chains in the Brazilian Cerrado: balancing agri-food commodity chains and the well...