Research associate
Visitor address  S4|22, Room 309 Landwehrstr. 48A 64293 Darmstadt Contact   lara.unland@tu-darmstadt.de |
Lara Unland is a research assistant at the Department of Political Theory and History of Ideas of Prof Dr Dirk Jörke. She has been working as a doctoral candidate in the DFG Research Training Group ‘Standards of Governance’ since 2025. She is currently researching the legitimacy and independence of central banks and the influence of technocratic monetary policy on modern societies.
Research Interests
- History of Political Ideas
- Monetary Policy
- International Political Economy
- Social Inequality
- Democracy and Legitimacy
Curriculum Vitae
| Since 04/2025 | Doctoral Candidate at the DFG Research Training Group “Standards of Governance” at Goethe University Frankfurt and Technical University Darmstadt |
| 09/2023-09/2025 | Master of Science “International Relations and Diplomacy” Leiden University, Campus den Haag. |
| 09/2022-09/2023 | Master of Arts “European Studies” Maastricht University. |
| 10/2018-09/2021 | Bachelor of Arts Political Science and Sociology at the University of Bielefeld. At the same time student assistant at the Chair of Social Structure Analysis as well as at the research project “Good Legislation” at the Chair of Civil Law. |