Education

• 2017-2020 M.A. Interdisciplinary Latin American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin (Institute for Latin American Studies)
  • Master Thesis: Disaster management and civil society in the Caribbean – recovery participation and emergency management systems in Haiti, Cuba and the USA using the example of Hurricane Matthew 2016
• 2014-2017 B.A. Spanish Philology, Latin American Studies, Culture and History of the Middle East
• 2015-2016 visiting student in Mexico, Universidad de Guadalajara
  • Bachelor Thesis: Reflecting the new world the theological way: Juan de Palafox y Mendoza

Research Interests

• socio-economic disaster research
• development policy and relief economy
• emergency planning/ emergency management
• national/ international emergency management systems
• critical infrastructures
• disaster risk reduction

Project collaboration:

• RESIK: Resilience and Evacuation Planning for Social-Economic Infrastructures in sociomedical contexts

Publications (Selection)

• Voss, Martin; Dittmer, Cordula; Schulze, Katja; Rüger, Anja; Bock, Nicolas (2022):  Katastrophenbewältigung als  sozialer Prozess: Vom Ideal- zum  Realverständnis von Risiko-, Krisen- und Katastrophenmanagement. In: Notfallvorsorge (1), S. 22-32.

• Schulze, Katja; Bock, Nicolas; Dittmer, Cordula; Flörchinger, Verena; Lorenz, Daniel F.; Merkes, Sara T.; Voss, Martin (2020): Die SARS-CoV-2-Pandemie aus Sicht der Bevölkerung. Ergebnisse einer Bevölkerungsbefragung. KFS Working Paper Nr. 16. Berlin: KFS. DOI: 10.17169/refubium-26823