Andrey Makarychev is Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Institute for East European Studies, Free University of Berlin. His fields of academic research include Russian foreign and security policies, EU-Russian relations, issues of regionalism and federalism.
André Mommen obtained a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Free University Brussels, Belgium, where he went on to lecture, before moving to the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Today he is working as a consultant.