Dr. Rouven Symank is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the SCRIPTS Cluster of Excellence. He holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute (EUI), an MSc from the London School of Economics (LSE) and an MA from Humboldt University Berlin. From 2021-2022, he was a visiting researcher at the University of Oxford and the University of California, Berkeley.

Rouven’s work was awarded the Charles V European Award Research Grant and scholarships by the German Academic Exchange Service and the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung). He is currently a Dahrendorf Fellow at St Anthony’s College, Oxford, and has work experience in management consulting and as a Carlo-Schmid-Fellow at the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) in New York.

At SCRIPTS, Rouven works in the project “Objects from Afar and Sustainable Liberal Identity - The Contestation of Material Representation in National Museums of the Global North”.