Jan Völkel
Research Assistant to Prof. Del Sarto
Jan.Voelkel@eui.eu
Tel [+39] 055 4685 580
Fax [+39] 055 4685 770
Office: Convento, SD037
Dr. Jan Claudius Völkel is research assistant to Prof. Raffaella Del Sarto in the Borderlands Project and Regional Coordinator for North Africa and the Middle East at the Bertelsmann Transformation Index .
After his studies of Political Science, Economics, and Oriental Studies at the Universities of Freiburg, Basel and Cairo from 1996 to 2002 he published his Ph. D. dissertation on "The image of the United Nations in leading Arab newspapers" in 2008 (in German language).
He had teaching assignments at the Universities of Freiburg, Salzburg and Duhok (Iraqi-Kurdistan) and gained profound professional experience in the area of development cooperation as consultant for various German Development Agencies in Ethiopia and Yemen; also, he was chosen as member of an international observer mission to the communal elections in Morocco in 2009.
In 2008, he received the IES Chicago "Instructor of the Year" Award for outstanding excellence in teaching.