Max Hankel, M.A.
Curriculum Vitae
| Since 11/2025 | Research Assistant, FernUniversität in Hagen, Department of Political Science II – International Politics (Prof. Dr. Lütz) |
| Since 11/2025 | Junior Project Manager, infas – Institute for Applied Social Sciences, Department of Data Processing |
| 01/2024-10/2025 | Intern and later Student Research Assistant, infas – Institute for Applied Social Sciences, Department of Data Processing |
| 02/2023-03/2023 | Intern, Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conversation and Transport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (Division VIII B5: „Transformative Structural Policy, EU Structural Funds, Rhenish Revier“) |
| 10/2019-03/2020 | Tutor for Economics I (Macroeconomics), Chair of Economics, Macroeconomic Theory and Policy (Prof. Dr. Welfens), University of Wuppertal |
Academic education
| 2021-2025 | Double Master’s degree in Political Science and International Relations at Andrássy University Budapest and the University of Wuppertal (Master’s thesis: Nuclear Weapons as a „Fabulously Textual‘ Phenomenon: A Constructivist Comparison of Nuclear Discourses in the UK and Austria) |
| 2017-2021 | Combined Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences and Geography at the University of Wuppertal. (Bachelor’s thesis: „Das aufgetaute Parteiensystem“? Aktuelle Entwicklungen im deutschen Parteiensystem vor dem Hintergrund der (New-)Cleavage-Theorie und der Dealignment-Theorie) |
Research Focus
- (Social Constructivist) theories of International Relations
- Political media and discourse analysis
- Computational Social Sciences
