Mathias’ expertise lies in project management and he contributes to the project, especially in relation to the work under Work Package 4 (The Chinese Economy) and cross-topic work on coordination, dissemination, etc. for the project.
Alma specialises in project management and dissemination activities.
She is a theatre practitioner, non-active actress with experience in institutional theatres, theatrologist focused on post-drama and dance theatre. Her main interests include the entanglements between performing arts, the big Tech, and the posthumanist approach in culture. Parallel to her work in China Horizons she holds a post of research assistant at the Department of East Asian Cultures and Languages at the University of Gdansk, Poland.
His areas of expertise include Chinese cultural sector, cultural diplomacy in East Asia, ancient Chinese literature and thought, Chinese art theory. For the last few years he has concentrated on analyses of pre-Qin political texts, mostly the Lüshi Chunqiu and the Zhanguoce. In modern China research, he is interested in the historical and cultural roots of transformational processes, and in the tension between tradition and modernity.