Staff

The staff of the Japan-Center.

Professors

Prof. Dr. Martin Lehnert

Professor of East Asian Religion and Philosophy

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Prof. Dr. Evelyn Schulz

Professor of Japanese Studies

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Prof. Dr. Gabriele Vogt

Chair of Japanese Studies

Professor of Japanese Studies (W 3), Director to Department of Asian Studies

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Prof. Dr. Klaus Vollmer

Chair of Japanese Studies

Professor of Japanese Studies (W 3), Speaker of the PhD program in Buddhism Studies

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Prof. Dr. Franz Waldenberger

Professor for Japanese Economy

Administrative staff

MA Tanja Eberl

Team Assistant

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Carola Peñas

Team Assistent

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Academic staff

Yosuke Buchmeier, Dr. des.

Research Associate

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Dr. phil. Simone Heidegger

Research associate, Coordination of the Doctoral Program in Buddhist Studies

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Dr. Paulus Kaufmann

Research Associate

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Paul Johann Kramer, M.A.

Research Associate at the SFB 1369 Cultures of Vigilance, Project B08

Stefanie Schwarte, M.A.

Research Associate at DFG-Project "Demography and Democracy: How Population Aging Alters Democracy – The Case of Japan"

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Antonia Vesting, M.A.

Research Associate at DFG-Project "Demography and Democracy: How Population Aging Alters Democracy – The Case of Japan"

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Christoph Völker, M.A.

Research Associate

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Dr. Anna Wiemann

Assistant professor

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Japanese language lecturers

Dr. Yumiko Kato

Lecturer in Japanese

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Dr. phil. Yumiko Murata

Research & Teaching Associate

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Yoshio Takahashi, MA

Lecturer in Japanese

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Part-time lecturer

Visiting Researcher

Prof. Aeneas Zi Wang, Ph.D.

Visiting fellow

Sociology

Emeriti and Alumni (since 2019)

Dr. des. Carolin Fleischer-Heininger

Research Associate

Dr. phil. Christian Göhlert

Lecturer

Dr. phil. i.R. Yoshiharu Kasai

Lecturer in Japanese (retired)

Retired since 1 March 2022

Jane Sarah Khanizadeh, MA

Research Associate

Anne-Sophie L. König, M.A.

Research Associate at DFG-Project "Demography and Democracy: How Population Aging Alters Democracy – The Case of Japan"

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Felicia Krammling, M.A.

Part-time lecturer

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Prof. Dr. Peter Pörtner, (i.R.)

Professor for Japanese Studies

Retired since 1 April 2019

Dr. Kevin Schumacher-Shoji

Part-time lecturer

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Dr. Holger Wöhlbier

Senior lecturer

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