Hana Attia

Hana Attia is a Junior Professor for Security Policy and Peace at the Institute of Political Science (IPW), Leuphana University, and a Research Fellow at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (Institute for Middle East Studies). She earned her doctorate from the University of Konstanz in 2023.

• Research Focus: Economic coercion, economic sanctions, foreign policy, domestic politics, peace and conflict studies, security studies, and public opinion on coercive instruments in international relations.
• Awards: Leibniz Dissertation Prize (2024), Aquila Ascendens Prize (2023).
• Career: Postdoctoral researcher at University of Salzburg (2023–2025), Research Fellow at GIGA (2018–2023), visiting lecturer at University of Hamburg (2019, 2021), and Fulbright/DAAD-funded visiting scholar.
• Methodology: Empirical-analytical research using quantitative methods (large-N data, experiments), with openness to qualitative case studies in Middle East/North Africa.

Her work has been published in journals like International Studies Quarterly and Journal of Peace Research, with media commentary in Neue Zürcher Zeitung and Foreign Times.