Dr Charlotte Rungius works as a senior project manager at ZSI, specializing in EU/EC-related science policy projects with a focus on science diplomacy and international science policy.
She holds a B.Sc. in economics (macroeconomics) from the University of Mannheim and Bilkent University, Ankara (Turkey). During her M.A. she specialized in International Relations and in the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge and graduated in Peace and Conflict Studies from Augsburg University and the School of International Service (SIS), American University in Washington, DC. She earned a Ph.D. in science studies from the University of Augsburg (Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences), with research stays at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) and Humboldt University in Berlin.
From 2014 to 2018, Charlotte served as a researcher and lecturer at the Chair for Political Science, Peace, and Conflict Studies at the University of Augsburg. Between 2018 and 2021, she was a team member of the EU Horizon 2020 science diplomacy project (S4D4C), associated with the German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW) in Berlin. She is the lead author of the S4D4C case study “SESAME – An international research infrastructure in the Middle East”, she contributed to the transversal analysis of cases and several training activities and events. Read HERE an interview with her, published as part of S4D4C’s researcher’s voices series.
She then worked at Humboldt University in Berlin and the Robert Merton Center for Science Studies (RMZ) from 2021 to 2022, focusing on the societal impact of research and national impact policies. Charlotte was trained as a mediator in Germany, as a meditation trainer in Austria and served as an academic trainer in CIMIC simulations with the Austrian Armed Forces as part of the M.A. programme for peace studies at the University of Innsbruck.