The Research Training Group ‘Critical infrastructures: construction, functional crises and protection in cities’ at the Technical University of Darmstadt started its research activities on October 1, 2016 and has just been extended in the second round until 2026. In the College, which is sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation), historians, infrastructure and land use planners, civil engineers, philosophers, Prof. Dr. Michèle Knodt as political scientist, architects and IT specialists work together.
Funding
Funding institution: DFG (German Research Foundation)
Funding period: 2016 – 2025
Funding budget: € 10.541.792,00 (total volume)
Supervisor and doctoral candidates
| Name | Working area(s) | Contact | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Professors | |||
| Prof. Dr. Michèle Knodt Chair | Project Leader | Comparative Politics and European Integration | knodt@pg.tu-... +49 6151 16-57353 S3|12 439 |
| Academic staff | |||
| Elisa Berg M.A. Research Associate / Doctoral Candidate | Research Training Group KRITIS, Comparative Politics and European Integration | berg@kritis.tu-... +49 6151 16-28560 S4|22 301 |
| Andreas Mottl M.A. Research Associate / Doctoral Candidate | Research Training Group KRITIS, Comparative Politics and European Integration | mottl@kritis.tu-... +49 6151 16-28577 S4|22 306 |
| Past employees | |||
| Dr. Eva Platzer Research Associate | Doctoral Candidate | Research Training Group KRITIS, Comparative Politics and European Integration | platzer@kritis.tu-... |
| Academic staff | |||
| Dr. Alice Engel (geb. Knauf) Research Associate (absent) | Comparative Politics and European Integration | alice.knauf@tu-... S3|12 544 |
