Janine Herrmann was with the Imre Kertész Kolleg as project assistant from April 2023 until March 2025. Her responsibilities lay with the coordination of projects with the university administration, the organization of conferences, workshops and summer schools, as well as the support of visiting researchers. Prior to her position at the Kolleg, she was an HR manager at rooom AG. She received her master’s degree in Tourism and Regional Planning - Management and Geography in 2015 at the KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. Before that, she received a bachelor’s degree in European Studies at the University of Passau. From September 2013 to May 2014 she studied Applied Foreign Languages at the University of Strasbourg, France.