Research associate

Visitor address

S4|22, Room 309
Landwehrstr. 48A
64293 Darmstadt   


Contact

elena.dressler@tu-darmstadt.de

Elena Dressler is a research associate at the chair of “International Relations” headed by Prof. Dr. Markus Lederer. Since 2025, she has been working as a doctoral researcher in the DFG Research Training Group “Standards of Governance.” Her current research focuses on transnational organized crime with a regional focus on Latin America.

Research interests

  • Peace and Conflict Studies
  • Transnational Organized Crime (TOC)
  • Violence
  • Democracy
  • Latin American Regional Studies

Curriculum Vitae

Since 04/2025Research associate at the Chair of International Relations headed by Prof. Markus Lederer and doctoral researcher in the DFG Research Training Group “Standards of Governance” at Technische Universität Darmstadt and Goethe-University Frankfurt.
10/2021 – 01/2025Master of Arts International Studies / Peace and Conflict Studies, Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main, Technische Universität Darmstadt and Universidad Complutense de Madrid
08/2021 – 03/2025Student research assistant at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), with Prof. Nicole Deitelhoff (until 2023) and Prof. Jonas Wolff (from 2022 onwards).
06/2021 – 03/2022Student research assistant at the Chair of International Politics with Prof. Sandra Destradi, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
10/2018 – 05/2021Bachelor of Arts Political Science and Law (Minor), Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main and Universidad Externado de Colombia