HIAS Bridges NEXT (AP)

Davide Luigi Totaro

Research field:Comparative Private Law

●What are your current research interests?

Contracts, Insurance, Fintech/Insurtech, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Protection

●What do you enjoy most about research?

Providing solutions and insights on practical legal issues while advancing the theoretical framework, bridging the gap between industry and academia

● What does research mean to you?(In a nutshell)

Advance human knowledge-understanding and problem-solving capability

●What inspired you to become a researcher?

The freedom to research, express yourself, and pursue knowledge, privileges that only academia can grant.

●What are your future goals as a researcher?

Furthering my knowledge and expertise in academia while engaging with private and public entities in the hope of working together toward common standards for trade and governance, especially in areas such as Artificial Intelligence.

Julia Mariko Jacoby

Research field:Early modern Japanese environmental and economic history

●What are your current research interests?

I currently research the complex natural resource networks of early modern Japanese villages and how they continued into the Meiji period.

●What do you enjoy most about research?

I love to connect with people from the past through reading sources and to connect with colleagues about research.

●What does research mean to you?(In a nutshell)

Research, for me, is an opportunity to never stop learning.

●What inspired you to become a researcher?

I’ve always been curious and loved analyzing things.

●What are your future goals as a researcher?

I want to be a researcher who brings people together internationally.

Hayato Koga

Research field:Human geography, Political ecology, Energy social science

●What are your current research interests?

Energy geography, Decentralisation of energy governance, nuclear waste management

●What do you enjoy most about research?

Learning new things

● What does research mean to you?(In a nutshell)

Producing new things

●What inspired you to become a researcher?

Among various paths, I felt that being a researcher suited me best in addressing environmental and social issues

●What are your future goals as a researcher?

I hope to contribute, even in a small way, to improving issues regarded as environmental or social problems

Jonathan Krautter

Research field:Japanese and German Economic and Business History

●What are your current research interests?

The demise and resurgence of capital controls from 1945 until today.

●What do you enjoy most about research?

Discovering new insights in archival sources.

● What does research mean to you?(In a nutshell)

Producing knowledge that helps us to navigate and interpret the social and natural world(s) we live in.

●What inspired you to become a researcher?

I did not have a particular inspiration. Rather, I wanted to continue doing archival research and immerse myself in worlds of the past.

●What are your future goals as a researcher?

My long-term goal is to contribute to theory formation in industrial policy research by employing historical and qualitative approaches, and help bridge the gap between quantitative and qualitative research.

Thomas Monnier

Research field:Urban and development economics

●What are your current research interests?

Migration, informality, climate change, structural transformation

●What do you enjoy most about research?

Interacting with many stakeholders while keeping independence and freedom

● What does research mean to you?(In a nutshell)

Getting excited about new ideas, then keeping a cool head and persevere to bring projects to an end

●What inspired you to become a researcher?

Meeting inspiring people, and a love for social sciences and humanities in general

●What are your future goals as a researcher?

Engage with policymakers and develop a truly trans-disciplinary research agenda to maximize impact