International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW)

Dr Marco Krüger

Head of the Working Group "Security Ethics"

Marco is Senior Researcher (Akademischer Rat) and PI of the research focus Security Ethics at the IZEW. Since April 2022 member of the commission of inquiry "Crisis-proof Society" of the State parliament of Baden-Württemberg. Marco's research in Security Studies particularly focuses on resilience and security ethics.

Areas of Expertise

(Critical) Security Studies, Resilience, Surveillance Studies, Gender and Security, Science and Technology Studies

Publications

Books

Stępka M, Mazurkiewicz A and Krüger M (eds.): Emerging Varieties of Resilience. Experiences from Germany, Poland and Ukraine. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.

Max M and Krüger M (eds.) (2023): Resiliente Pflegeinfrastrukturen - Stärkung des Risikomanagements in der ambulanten Pflege. Hannover: Vincentz Network. (Resilient Care Infrastructures - Strengthening risk management in home care)

Krüger M and Max M (eds.) (2019): Resilienz im Katastrophenfall: Konzepte zur Stärkung von Pflege- und Hilfsbedürftigen im Bevölkerungsschutz. Bielefeld: transcript. (Disaster resilience: Concepts for strengthening care recipients and people in need of help)

 

Journal Articles (peer-reviewed)

Max M, Krüger M, Windsheimer P and Brejora M (2024): Change to persist-The adaptation of European Red Cross societies to changing patterns of volunteering, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 101, pp. 1-11.

Gabel F, Schobert M und Krüger, M (2024): Research Ethics and Ethical Research: An Example of Integrating Ethics in R&I Research, European Journal for Security Research, pp. 1-19.

Krüger M (2023): Visibilising the neglected: The emancipatory potential of resilience, European Journal of International Security, 8 (2), pp. 207-226.

Schobert M, Krüger M, Gabel F, Orru K, Naevstad, TO, Olson, A and Schieffelers A (2023): How do we know vulnerability when we see it? An approach to integrating ethical reflections into empirical disaster research, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 97, pp. 1-12.

Nahkur O, Orru K, Hansson S, Jukarainen P, Myllylä M, Krüger M, Max M, Savadori L, Nævestad TO, Frislid Meyer S, Schieffelers A, Olson A, Lovasz G, Rhinard M (2022): The engagement of informal volunteers in disaster management in Europe, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction,  online first, 83, pp.1-14.

Nævestad TO, Orru K, Nero K, Schieffelers A; Olson A, Ludvigsen J, Airola M; Savadori L, Krüger M, Gabel F, Hesjevoll I (2022): Self-imposed social isolation among clients of social care organisations in the COVID-19 pandemic, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, online first, 83, pp.1-13.

Gabel F, Krüger M, Morsut C and Kuran C (2022): Bridging the Gap between Vulnerable Groups and Vulnerable Situations: Towards an Integrative Perspective New Assessment on Vulnerability for Disaster Risk Reduction, UN Global Assessment Report 2022 Contributing Paper. Geneva: United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction.

Orru K, Hansson S, Gabel F, Tammpu P, Krüger M, Savadori L, Meyer SF, Torpan S, Jukarainen P, Schieffelers A, Lovasz G and Rhinard M (2022): Approaches to 'vulnerability' in eight European disaster management systems, Disasters, 46 (3), pp. 742-767.

Krüger M and Albris K (2021): Resilience unwanted: Between control and cooperation in disaster response, Security Dialogue, Security Dialogue, 52 (4), pp. 343-360.

Hansson S, Orru K, Siibak A, Bäck A, Krüger M et al. (2020): Communication-related vulnerability to disasters: A heuristic framework, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, online first, pp. 1-9.

Kuran CHA, Morsut C, Kruke BI, Krüger M et al. (2020): Vulnerability and vulnerable groups from an intersectionality perspective, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, online first, pp. 1-8.

Krüger M (2019): Building Instead of Imposing Resilience: Revisiting the Relationship Between Resilience and the State. In: International Political Sociology, 13 (1), pp. 53-67.

Weinhold R, Richter P, Krüger M, Geske K (2016): Von Kameras und Verdrängung. Rechtliche Anknüpfungspunkte für ein Recht auf Stadt unter besonderer Diskussion der Videoüberwachung öffentlicher Räume. In: Kritische Justiz, 49 (1), pp. 31-46. (On cameras and expulsion. Judicial links for a right to the city with a particular discussion of camera surveillance of the public space)

 

Book Chapters (peer-reviewed)

Krüger M (2026): Approaching resilience: The rise of resilience in the German civil protection system. In: Stępka M, Mazurkiewicz A and Krüger M (eds.): Emerging Varieties of Resilience. Experiences from Germany, Poland and Ukraine. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, pp. 15-35.

Stępka M, Mazurkiewicz A and Krüger M (2026): Introducing resilience. In: Stępka M, Mazurkiewicz A and Krüger M (eds.): Emerging Varieties of Resilience. Experiences from Germany, Poland and Ukraine. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, pp. 1-14.

Mazurkiewicz A, Krüger M and Stępka M (2026): Conclusion: Old and new paths of resilience. In: Stępka M, Mazurkiewicz A and Krüger M (eds.): Emerging Varieties of Resilience. Experiences from Germany, Poland and Ukraine. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, pp. 151-162.

Krüger M and Gabel F (2021): From Lisbon to Sendai: Responsibilities in International Disaster Management. In: Hansen-Magnusson M and Vetterlein A (eds.): The Routledge Handbook on Responsibility in International Relations. London, New York: Routledge, pp. 203-216.

Krüger M (2020): Resilienz in der Risiko- und Krisenkommunikation. Implikationen von Resilienz für die Ausgestaltung von Kommunikation im Bevölkerungsschutz. in: Ellebrecht S, Eschenbruch N and Zoche P (eds.): Sicherheitslagen und Sicherheitstechnologien. Beiträge der ersten Sommerakademie der zivilen Sicherheitsforschung 2018. Münster: LIT, pp. 227-251. (Resilience in risk and crisis communication. Implications of resilience for the enactment of communication in civil protection)

Krüger M (2018): The impact of video tracking routines on crowd behaviour and crowd policing. In: Melgaço L and Monaghan J (eds.): Protest in The Information Age: Social Movements, Digital Practices and Surveillance. London, New York: Routledge, pp. 135–150.

 

Book Chapters (without review)

Wezel K and Krüger M (2023): Sicherheit und Pflege gemeinsam denken: Ambulante Pflege als kritische Infrastruktur. In: Max M and Krüger M (eds.): Resiliente Pflegeinfrastrukturen - Stärkung des Risikomanagements in der ambulanten Pflege. Hannover: Vincentz Network, pp. 33-43. (Thinking security and care together: Home care as critical infrastructure)

Wezel K and Krüger M (2023): Kontinuitäten und Brüche zwischen Alltag und Ausnahme. In: Max M and Krüger M (eds.): Resiliente Pflegeinfrastrukturen - Stärkung des Risikomanagements in der ambulanten Pflege. Hannover: Vincentz Network, pp. 76-88. (Continuities and frictions between daily business and exception)

Krüger M and Kille, A (2023): Wege zu einer resilienteren Gesellschaft - die Enquetekommission "Krisenfeste Gesellschaft" des Landtags von Baden-Württemberg. In: Europäisches Zentrum für Föderalismus-Forschung Tübingen (ed.): Jahrbuch des Föderalismus 2023. Föderalismus, Subsidiarität und Regionen in Europa. Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 139-150. (Approaches to a more resilient society - the parliamentary commission "Resilient Society" of the State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg)

De Silva, M, Fernando, N, Hollenbach P, Krüger M, Schmelz A and Schmitt C (2023): Climate Crisis, Global Migration, and Disaster Research. Social Work as a Bridging Agent. In: Peterlini HK and Donlic J (eds.): Yearbook Migration and Society 2022/2023. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, pp. 47-60.

Krüger M (2021): Über Normativität und Notwendigkeit - Zur Bedeutung einer ethisch reflektierten Polizeiwissenschaft. In: Kühne E and Liebl K (eds.): Polizeiwissenschaft. Fiktion, Option oder Notwendigkeit? Frankfurt: Verlag für Polizeiwissenschaft, pp. 337-360. (About Normativity and Necessity - On the meaning of ethically reflected police science)

Krüger M (2019): Resilienz – Zwischen staatlicher Forderung und gesellschaftlicher Förderung. In: Krüger M and Max M (eds.): Resilienz im Katastrophenfall: Konzepte zur Stärkung von Pflege- und Hilfsbedürftigen im Bevölkerungsschutz. Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 57-75. (Resilience - Between state demand and societal support)

Krüger M  and Max M (2019): ) Über Bedarfe, Sichtbarkeit und die Voraussetzungen einer resilienten Bevölkerung. In: Krüger M and Max M (eds.): Resilienz im Katastrophenfall: Konzepte zur Stärkung von Pflege- und Hilfsbedürftigen im Bevölkerungsschutz. Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 25-40. (On demands, visbility and the preconditions of a resilient population)

Krüger M (2017): "Not Doing Gender" - Über ein verwaistes Feld in der zivilen Sicherheitsforschung. In: Brand C et al. (eds.): Ethik in den Kulturen - Kultur in der Ethik. Eine Festschrift für Regina Ammicht Quinn. Tübingen: Narr/Francke/Attempto, pp. 221-229. ('Not doing gender' - On a field left fallow in civil security research)

 

Dissertation

Krüger M (2023): The Emancipatory Potential of Resilience, Dissertation, University of Tübingen, Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10900/138889.

 

Reports

Krause K, Schobert M and Krüger M (2024): Katastrophenbewältigung zwischen Staat und Wirtschaft. Zur Rolle von Unternehmen während des Ahrhochwassers 2021. Deutsches Rotes Kreuz: Berlin. (Disaster Management between the State and the Economy. On the role of companies in the management of the Ahr floods in 2021)

Gabel F and Krüger M (2020): Leitfaden für eine ethisch reflektierte Krisenkommunikation. Eine Analyse wertbezogener Spannungsfelder in der Krisenkommunikation, Materialien zur Ethik in den Wissenschaften, Volume 15, Tübingen: IZEW. Available at: https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/81680. (Guidelines for an ethically reflected crisis communication)

Krüger M and Vondermaßen M (2018): Partizipation als ein Baustein zur Förderung von Resilienz. In: Deutsches Rotes Kreuz: Die vulnerable Gruppe "ältere und pflegebedürftige Menschen" in Krisen, Großschadenslagen und Katastrophen. Teil 2: Vernetzung und Partizipation - auf dem Weg zu einem sozialraumorientierten Bevölkerungsschutz, Berlin, pp. 12-14. (Participation as a component for the promotion of resilience)

Krüger M (2018): Gesellschaftsethisches Gutachten zum Projekt „Multisensoriell gestützte Erfassung von Straftätern in Menschenmengen bei komplexen Einsatzlagen“, Tübingen: IZEW. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10900/79947. (Ethical report on the research project: Multisensory based detection of offenders in crowds in complex police operations)

Krüger M (2016): Gewaltprävention im Fußball, in: Ammicht Quinn R (ed.): Prävention und Freiheit. Zur Notwendigkeit eines Ethik-Diskurses. Available at: http://www.praeventionstag.de/html/download.cms?id=500, pp. 77-89. (The prevention of violence in the context of football)

Baur-Ahrens A, Krüger M, Ammicht Quinn R, Leese M and Matzner T (2015): How Smart Is “Smart Security”? Exploring Data Subjectivity and Resistance. Final Report, Tübingen: IZEW. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10900/66898.

Academic Conferences & Workshops

2025
  • “Caring about security and securing care: On biases, diversity and the potential of resilience”, Workshop “Security Beyond Exclusion? Reimagining Desirable Security Futures”, Hamburg (Germany), 11-12 September 2025.
  • “Precarious heroines (&heroes) in a protracted crisis: Reflecting fragilities between the crisis and normalities”, 18th EISA Pan-European Conference, Bologna (Italy), 26-29 August 2025.
  • “Struggles about the future of the world: The political implications of sustainability and resilience as epistemic concepts”, 18th EISA Pan-European Conference, Bologna (Italy), 26-29 August 2025.
  • “Precarious heroines (&heroes) in a protracted crisis: Reflecting fragilities between the crisis and normalities”, 12th European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS), Kraków (Poland), 02-04 July 2025.
  • “Values that matter. The ethics of democratic resilience”, Workshop “Sustaining Human Rights in the Face of Far-Right Extremism”, Tübingen, 19-20 June 2025.
  • “Security at the Margins - Perspectives from the Periphery”, Workshop “Co-laborating for Change? The Future of Peace and Security in an Age of Crises”, Hamburg (Germany), 25-27 June 2025.
  • "Katastrophenschutz zwischen Wirtschaft und Staat. Zur Rolle von Unternehmen in der Bewältigung von Katastrophen” (Disaster Management between the economy and the state. On the role of companies in disaster relief operations), Conference “Forschung für den Bevölkerungsschutz”, German Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance, Bonn (Germany), 05-07 February 2025.
2024
  • “The ambiguous role of social cohesion for democractic resilience”. Workshop “Sustaining Human Rights in the Face of Far-Right Extremism”, University of Conneticut (USA), Storrs (CT), 20-21 September 2024. (Invited Speaker)
  • “Caring about security and securing care. On biases, diversity and the ptoential of resilience”, Conference “Peace, Conflict and Security in Times of Existential Crises”, Collaborative Research Center ”Dynamics of Security", Marburg (Germany), 21-22 March 2024.
  • “Between the ‚race to zero‘ and the ‚race to resilience‘: On the relationship on sustainability and resilience”, Workshop “Nouveaux Horizons”, Tübingen, 21 February 2024.
2023
  • "Approaching Resilience: The increasing importance of resilience for civil protection in Germany", Workshop "Managing Crises Through Adaptability, Endurance and Resilience", Kraków (Poland), 01 December 2023. (Invited Speaker).
  • "Approaching Resilience: The increasing importance of resilience for civil protection in Germany", Workshop "Politiken und Praktiken der (Un-)Sicherheit: Perspektiven der Kritischen Sicherheitsstudien" (Politics and Practices of (In)Security: Perspectives of Critical Security Studies) - Annual Summit of the Critical Security Studies group of the DVPW, Tübingen (Germany), 13-14 November 2023.
  • "About ships, shores and shocks: Bringing resilience to the sea", 16th EISA Pan-European Conference, Potsdam (Germany), 05-09 September 2023.
  • "On precarious heroes and the taming of fragility", Workshop "Situational Awareness", University of Hamburg, Hamburg (Germany), 27-28 April 2023.
Previous Contributions
  • "Das Labor Betreuung 5000: Zur Konstruktion von (Un-)Sicherheit und der Imagination von Bevölkerung" (The mobile care module 5000: On the construction of (in)security and the imagination of the population), Workshop "Objects, Images and Places" of the DVPW Working Group Sociology of IR and the DVPW Theme Group Critical Security Studies , Hamburg, 05-06 December 2022.
  • "Historical Resilience", 15th EISA Pan-European Conference, Athens (Greece), 01-04 September 2022.
  • "Caring about Critical Infrastructures - Health, Care, and the Gendered Imaginary of Criticality in European Health Care Provision, 9th European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS), Thessaloniki (Greece), 06-09 July 2022.
  • "Was macht Infrastrukturen eigentlich kritisch - Pflege in Katastrophen?" (What renders infrastructures critical - Care in disasters), Congress Armut & Gesundheit (Poverty & Health), online, 22-24 March 2022.
  • "Who is (not) vulnerable during the pandemic", Nordic Pandemic Network Workshop organised by the Karolinska Institute Stockholm, online, 24-25 January 2022. (invited keynote speaker)
  • Participant at the panel "Personal Data Protection. Ethics and Human Rights.", Czernin Security Forum, online, 29-30 November 2021. (invited speaker)
  • "Caring about and Care in Disasters: On Privileges, Marginalisation and the Making of Critical (Social) Infrastructure Protection", 5th Northern European Conference on Emergency and Disaster Studies (NEEDS), online, 21-23 September 2021. (With Nicolas Bock co-chair of the panel)
  • "Gendered (Critical) Infrastructures: Health, care and the imaginary of criticality", Workshop "Making Europe Through Infrastructures of In/Security", online (hosted by the University of Vienna), 12-13 November 2020. (with Katharina Wezel)
  • "Resilienz im Bevölkerungsschutz – Zwischen zivilgesellschaftlicher Selbsthilfe und staatlichen Schutzstrukturen" (Resilience in civil protection - Between civil-societal self-help and state protective structures) , DVPW IB-Sektionstagung (online), 07-09. October 2020.
  • "The Creation of Vulnerability: Knowledge Production in Disaster Risk Reduction", 13th EISA Pan-European Conference, Sofia (Bulgaria), 11-14 September 2019.
  • "More than meets the Eye: A Techno-Political Analysis of Jihadist Video Propaganda", 13th EISA Pan-European Conference, Sofia (Bulgaria), 11-14 September 2019. (with Yorck Beese)
  • "Power hierarchies from below - Access Limitations at the Subaltern Level of Security", EISA Early Career Researcher Workshop "Writing Methods: Encountering Secrecy and 'Mess' in Security Research", Sofia (Bulgaria), 10 September 2019.
  • "Resilience and Emancipation. Visibilising the Neglected", 6th European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS), Kraków (Poland), 26-29 June 2019.
  • "On Trust, Control, and Representation", 12th EISA Pan-European Conference, Prague (Czech Republic), 12-15 September 2018.
  • "Strong State or Resilient Individual? - Reflections on a Justifiable Distribution of Responsibility for Security", 12th EISA Pan-European Conference, Prague (Czech Republic), 12-15 September 2018.
  • "Resilienz in der Krisenkommunikation. Zur Bedeutung von Resilienz für die Ausgestaltung von Risiko- und Krisenkommunikation" (Resilience in Crisis Communication. On the implications of resilience for designing risk and crisis communication), Fachdialog Sicherheitsforschung, Summer Academy of the Civil Security Research 2018, Bad Pyrmont, 23-27 July 2018.
  • "Resilience Beyond Neoliberal Governmentality", 5th European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS), Groningen (Netherlands), 06-08 June 2018 (Co-Convenor of the workshop: "Resilience: Between the Politicization of Security and the Production of the Neoliberal Passive Individual"; with Philippe Bourbeau).
  • "Control and Cooperation in Flood Management", 3rd Northern European Conference on Emergency and Disaster Studies (NEEDS3), Amsterdam (Netherlands), 21-23 March 2018.
  • "Preparedness in the face of the unknown: Why capabilities matter", 3rd Northern European Conference on Emergency and Disaster Studies (NEEDS3), Amsterdam (Netherlands), 21-23 March 2018.
  • Chair of the panel "Resilience: Everyday (In)Security. New Front Line or Basic Social & Urban Policy", Prague Insecurity Conference 2017, Prague (Czech Republic), 30 November-01 December 2017. (invited)
  • "The Hidden Potential of Resilience", 4th European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS), Cardiff (UK), 07-10 June 2017.
  • "Resilience and Strategic Selection Biases", 2nd Northern European Conference on Emergency and Disaster Studies (NEEDS II), Copenhagen (Denmark), 17-19 May 2017.
  • "Security, Resilience and Change - An Ambiguous Relationship", ISA 58th Annual Convention, Baltimore, Maryland (USA), 22-25 February 2017.
  • "'Smart Security' an Flughäfen. Smart für wen?" (Smart Security at Airports. Smart for whom?), 16th Austrian Conference on Technology Assessment, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna (Austria), 30 May 2016. (with Andreas Baur)
  • "Smart Security at Airports - Smart for Whom?", 3rd European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS), Tübingen (Germany), 06-08 April 2016. (with Andreas Baur)
  • "Life at the Limit. Care recipients, caretakers and relief workers in disaster situations", 1st Northern European Conference on Emergency and Disaster Studies (NEEDS), Copenhagen (Denmark), 09-11 December 2015. (with Friedrich Gabel)
  • "Neues aus dem 'Überwachungslabor' - Über Trackingverfahren bei polizeilichen Fußballeinsätzen" (News from the surveillance lab - On police tracking routines in the context of football matches), 26th DVPW Congress, Duisburg (Germany), 21-25 September 2015.
  • "Whose security is at stake? - Making sense of the European debate on migration", The Value of [In-]Security Conference, Tübingen (Germany), 28-30 July 2015.

Talks

2025
  • “Resiliente Netzwerke als Basis für nachhaltige Strukturen” (Resilient networks as a basis for sustasinable structures), Bundesverband Freie Darstellender Künste (Federal Association of Liberal Performing Arts), online, 11 September 2025. (Invited Speaker)
  • “Fußballfans zwischen polizeilicher Kategorisierung und Selbstwahrnehmung” (Football Supporters between police categorisation and self-perception), Landespolizei Rheinland-Pfalz (State Police Rhinland-Palatinate, Lage Live, online, 30 July 2025. (Invited Speaker)
  • “Why ethics matters”, PhD Conference of the Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg (Germany), 06 June 2025. (Invited Speaker)
  • “Vom richtigen Maß: Zu viel oder zu wenig „Versicherheitlichung“ des Bevölkerungsschutzes?” (On the right balance: Too much or too little securitisation in civil protection), Conference “Integrierte Sicherheit: Zivilschutz/-verteidigung auf neuen Wegen?” 
2024
  • ("Integrated Security: Civil Protection/-Defence on New Paths"), Evanglische Akademie Loccum (Academy of the German Protestant Church), Loccum (Germany), 11-13 December 2024. (Invited Speaker)
  • “Gesellschaftliche Aspekte der Anwendung von KI”, Innovationsforum “Zivile Sicherheit” des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (Federal Ministry on Education and Research), Berlin (Germany), 07-08 May 2024. (Invited Speaker)
  • Member of the enquete commission of inquiry "Crisis-proof Society" of the State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg, since April 2022.
  • "Resilienz - ein Konzept für Feuerwehren?" (Resilience - A concept for fire services?), Convention of the Hanseatischen Unfallkasse der Feuerwehren Nord (Public Accidence Insurance for Firefighters), Lübeck, 16 March 2024. (Invited Speaker)
  • Workshop on Vulnerability as part of the EU Disaster Relief Exercise MAGNITUDE, Vienna, 14-15 March 2024. (Invited Speaker)
  • Panelist at the debate "Vier Jahre Corona: Was haben wir gelernt?" (4 years Corona pandemic: What have we learned?), organised by SWR (public broadcasting station for the states of Baden-Württemberg & Rhineland-Palatinate) in the State Theatre Tübingen (LTT), Tübingen, 22 February 2024. (Invited Speaker)
2023
  • "Wie resilient ist unsere Gesellschaft?" (How resilient is our society?), Panelist of the opening event of the Science & Innovation Days of the University of Tübingen, 08 November 2023. (Invited Speaker)
  • "Wessen Sicherheit ist bedroht? Perspektiven auf gesellschaftliche Sicherheit" (Whose security is at risk? Perspectives on societal security), Talk at the teachers' qualification seminar "Peace and Human Security" of the ZSL Baden-Württemberg, 16 October 2023. (Invited Speaker)
  • "Krisenkonzepte für die ambulante Pflege" (Emergency concepts for home care services), Leitkongress und Netzwerkplattform Ambulant (LUNA) (Management congress for home care), Berlin, 09 October 2023. (Invited Speaker)
  • "Krisensicherheit im Pflegedienst" (Crisis prevention & preparedness in home care services), ALTENPFLEGE Messekongress (Fair congress for home care), Nürnberg, 26 April 2023. (Invited Speaker)
Previous Talks
  • Invited expert, public hearing on the establishment of an institute for Research on Civil Protection, Public Accounts Committee of the Saxon Parliament, online, 15 November 2022.
  • "Pflege als kritische Infrastruktur? - Zur Stärkung der Pflege in Katastrophen" (Care as critical infrastructure - On strengthening care in disasters), ALTENPFLEGE Fair (fair on elderly care), Essen, 26-28 April 2022. (Invited Speaker)
  • "Pflegedienste für Krisen stärken" (Strengthening Mobile Nursing Services in Crises), Deutscher Pflegetag 2021, Berlin, 13-14 October 2021. (Invited Speaker)
  • "Kaum auszuhalten? Vom gelingenden Gestalten herausfordernder Situationen durch innere Widerstandskraft" (Hardly Bearable. On the successful Coping in Demanding Situations through Resilience), Event in the Course of the World Mental Health Day, Diaconia Regional Branch Balingen, ISBA gGmbH et al., Albstadt-Ebingen, 12 October 2021. (Invited Speaker)
  • Ringvorlesung Stadtgespräch Weltethos "Was lernen wir in Tübingen aus der Corona-Krise?" (Weltethos Lecture Series: "What do we learn from the Corona crisis in Tübingen?") | Topic: "Between Crisis and Coping: What do we learn in medicine and care?", online, 16 November 2020. (Invited speaker)
  • Münchner außerklinischer Intensiv Kongress (Munich Congress on Outpatient Intensive Care) (MAIK) | Talk: "Aufrechterhaltung der ambulanten Pflegeinfrastrukturen in Krisensituationen" ("Maintaining home care infrastructures in crises"), online, 23 September 2020. (Invited speaker)
  • Kongress für außerklinische Intensivpflege und Beatmung (Congress on Outpatient Intensive Care and Ventilation) (KAI) | Talk: "Strengthening Care Recipients in Disasters - Results of the Research Project KOPHIS", Berlin, 20-21 November 2019. (Invited speaker)
  • Summer School "Cyber war's. Sicherheit in einer digitalisierten Welt." of the Cusanuswerk | Talk: "What do you mean: 'security'? On the ambiguity of a complex term", Regenstauf, 07 August 2018. (Invited speaker)
  • Symposium on behalf of the German Federal Ministry of the Interior on "Aviation Security Control Technology. Technology and Equipment for Civil Aviation Security", GPEC 2016 | Talk: "'Smart Security' at Airports. Smart for whom?", Leipzig, 9 June 2016 (with Andreas Baur). (Invited speaker)
  • Invited expert, public hearing on "Folgen der Militarisierung Minderjähriger" (Consequences of the Militarisation of Minors) of the Children's Commission, German Bundestag (Federal Parliament), Berlin, 17 February 2016.
  • Invited expert, public hearing on "Sicherheit im Fußball - Fans schützen Gewaltäter konsequent verfolgen" (Security in Football - Protection of Fans, Persecution of Perpetrators of Violence) of the Committee of Home Affairs, Landtag (State Parliament) of Saxony, Dresden, 25 June 2015.

Teaching

Winter Semester 2025/26

Courses in Political Science
  • The Politics of Migration (Bachelor/Master)
  • For the people, of the people, by the people? – Demokratietheorie im ideengeschichtlichen Wandel (Bachelor, with Wulf Loh) (The theory of democracy in the history of ideas) 
Courses in Education (BWS)
  • Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt – Ein Thema für die Schule? (Bachelor/Master) (Societal Cohesion - A topic for schools?)
  • Der Wert der Resilienz (Bachelor/Master) (The Value of Resilience)
  • Die Pädagogik Rudolf Steiners – eine (kritische) Analyse (Bachelor/Master, with Davina Höll) (Rudolf Steiner's pedagogy – A [critical] analysis)
  • Punk – Gegenkultur im Klassenzimmer (Bachelor/Master) (Punk - Counter-hegemonic culture in the classroom)

 

Previous Courses

Courses in Political Science
  • Ethics in International Relations and Peace Studies | Summer Semester 2024, 2025 | Seminar (Master)
  • For the people, of the people, by the people? – Demokratietheorie im ideengeschichtlichen Wandel (The theory of democracy in the history of ideas) | Winter Semester 2024/25 | Seminar (Bachelor)
  • The Politics of Migration | Winter Semester 2024/25 | Seminar (Bachelor/Master)
  • Perspektive schafft (Un-)Sicherheit: Erleben und Verhandlung von Sicherheitsperspektiven durch interaktive Methoden (Perspective creates [In]Security: Experiencing and negotiating perspectives on security through interactive methods) | Winter Semester 2024/25 | Lehrinnovationsprojekt | Seminar (Bachelor/Master)
  • The Fabric of International Security: Modes of Knowledge Production and Power Relations in International Relations | Summer Semester 2024 | Seminar (Bachelor/Master)
  • Politics of the Catastrophe and Crisis Governance in the Anthropocene | Winter Semester 2023/24; Summer Semester 2025 | Seminar (Bachelor/Master)
  • Resilience, Security and World Politics | Winter Semester 2020/21 | Seminar (Bachelor/Master)
  • Security in Times of Modern Information Technologies | Summer Semester 2018 | Seminar (Bachelor/Master; with Andreas Baur)
  • The Paris Climate Summit – Turning Point in International Politics on Climate Change? | Winter Semester 2015/16 | Seminar (Bachelor/Master, with Tobias Haas)
Courses in Education (BWS)
  • Punk - Gegenkultur im Klassenzimmer (Punk - Counter-hegemonic culture in the classroom) | Summer Semester 2025 | Seminar (Bachelor/Master)
  • Sicherheit als Thema im Klassenzimmer (Security as an issue in the classroom) | Winter Semester 2024/25 | Seminar (Bachelor/Master)
  • Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt – Ein Thema für die Schule? (Societal Cohesion - A topic for schools?) | Summer Semester 2025; Winter Semester 2024/25 | Seminar (Bachelor/Master)
  • Kritik und Ethik (Ethics and Critique) | Summer Semester 2024, 2025 |Seminar (Bachelor/Master)
  • Der Wert der Resilienz | Summer Semester 2024, 2025; Winter Semester 2024/25 | Seminar (Bachelor/Master)
Courses in Sport Studies
  • Security in Football | Summer Semester2016 | Seminar (Master)

Interviews and Media Appearances

Completed Projects

  • AUPIK (03/2020-06/2023) |Maintaining home care infrastructures in disasters Organisational concepts for increasing care infrastructures' resilience | Funded by: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
  • BuildERS (05/2019-04/2022) | Building European Communities' Resilience and Social Capital | Funded by: EU Horizon 2020.
  • KOPHIS (02/2016 - 04/2019) | Strengthening the context of people in need of care and/or help - Linking Security Authorities and Organisations, Care Infrastructure and Civil-Societal Networks | Funded by: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
  • FLORIDA (11/2016-02/2019) |Flexible, semi-automatic Analysis System for the Evaluation of Mass Video Data | Funded by: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
  • Hochwasser 2021 (05-11/2022) | The role of private and public companies during the flood of the river Ahr in 2021 | Funded by: German Red Cross General Secreariat.
  • MUSKAT (09/2014-11/2017) |Multisensory based detection of offenders in crowds in complex police operations | Funded by: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
  • RESIK (03/2020-06/2023) | Resilience and evacuation planning for socio-economic infrastructures in the medico-social context | Funded by: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
  • SmartSec (06/2015-02/2016) | Smart Security at Airports | Funded by: Media Democracy Fund, Ford Foundation, Open Society Foundations, New Venture Fund | Part of the Quantified Society Grants.