Our Events and Outreach Coordinator has a degree in Social Communication (2013) from the Universidade de São Paulo, and a postgraduate (lato sensu) degree in Business Administration (2018) from the Fundação Getúlio Vargas. She worked in the publishing market before turning to corporate communications in 2017 when she joined the communications team of the Câmara de Comércio e Indústria Brasil-Alemanha. She joined Mecila’s team in São Paulo in 2018.

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Rua Morgado de Mateus, 615
04015-051 São Paulo, Brazil

Roberta Hesse, holds a Master’s degree in Social Anthropology from USP and a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences also from USP, having carried out a research internship and an academic exchange year at UzK. She has also worked with project management at the Associação Anna Laura. Currently she is an associate researcher at the “Centro de Estudos Ameríndios (CEstA/USP)”. She has been part of Mecila’s team as fellow assistant since April 2022.

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Rua Morgado de Mateus, 615
04015-051 São Paulo, Brazil

Puo-An Wu has a Master of Arts degree in European literatures from the HU Berlin (Humboldt University of Berlin) and is a current doctoral candidate in romance-language literature at the University of Potsdam. Prior to joining Mecila’s Berlin Office, she worked as a translator and interpreter, as well as in the International Affairs Office of the Excellence Cluster “Image Knowledge Gestaltung.”

She was the Centre’s Administrative Assistant in Berlin during the Preliminary Phase and joined Mecila’s academic staff in 2020.

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Freie Universität Berlin
ZI Lateinamerika-Institut
Geschäftstelle Boltzmannstr. 1
Raum 006 | 14195 Berlin, Germany

Henriette Laila Mönch holds a Bachelor of Arts in Intercultural European and American Studies from the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) and a Master of Arts in Management of Cultural and Non-Profit Organisations from the Distance and Independent Studies Center (DISC) of the TU Kaiserslautern. After her long-term occupation as coordinator for academic cooperation, events, and public relations for the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and as visa assistant at the German Embassy in Bogotá, Colombia, she worked at the Career Service of the FU Berlin (2019-2020) as coordinator for Qualification in Mentoring and Tutoring, and Event Management. She joined Mecila’s administrative staff in April 2021.

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Freie Universität Berlin
ZI Lateinamerika-Institut
Geschäftstelle Boltzmannstr. 1
Raum 006 | 14195 Berlin, Germany

Milagros Pacco studied History and Digital Humanities and obtained her master’s degree (2015) at the Universität zu Köln (UzK). During her studies, she worked as a student assistant in the department for Iberian and Latin American History at the Institute of History of UzK, in the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, and in the Global South Studies Center (GSSC) at UzK.
She has been a research assistant at the department for Iberian and Latin American History at the Institute of History of UzK since July 2017. As a research assistant, she is involved with academic and coordination tasks and developing and establishing the Research Data Management infrastructure at the Maria Sibylla Merian Centre (Mecila) at UzK.

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Kompetenznetz Lateinamerika – Mecila c/o Iberische und Lateinamerikanische Abt. Historisches Institut
Universität zu Köln Albertus-Magnus-Platz | 50923 Köln, Germany

Felix Engel studied history and ethnology and completed his master in public history in 2021. He has worked in the Department of Iberian and Latin American History and in the Global South Studies Center at the UzK.
Since July 2021, he has been part of the Cologne team as an academic assistant.

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Universität zu Köln Albertus-Magnus-Platz | 50923 Köln, Germany

Isabel Barea Navarro holds a degree in art history and a master’s degree in cultural heritage management from the University of Zaragoza, with a postgraduate Erasmus course at the University of Vienna. She has extensive experience in project management, both local and international, in the cultural, tourism, and events sectors. Since September 2020, she is part of Mecila as an assistant for the administrative and financial management of the subproject Medialities of Conviviality and Information Infrastructure at the IAI.

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Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut – Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Potsdamer Straße 37
10785 Berlin, Germany

Anna Levin has been a librarian at the IAI Berlin for over 30 years.

She stepped into her supportive role at Mecila in April 2020 and is responsible for the acquisition, cataloguing, and supply of selected materials in analogue and digital formats. She is also in charge of the electronic reading room designed for Mecila members.

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Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut – Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Potsdamer Straße 37
10785 Berlin, Germany

Jana Kluiber studied Spanish Philology at the University of Innsbruck and is currently completing a Master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Latin American Studies at the FU Berlin.

Since April 2022, she is working for Mecila as a student assistant for the subproject Medialities of Conviviality and Information Infrastructure at the IAI.

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BMBF-Projekt Mecila
Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut – Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Potsdamer Straße 37
10785 Berlin, Germany