Jan Wachter, M.Sc.

Jan Wachter was born in Kaiserslautern. From 2016 to 2017, he completed his voluntary service program in Krakow. Between 2017 and 2024, he studied International Economics and European Studies as well as Slavic Studies at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and the University of Leipzig. During this time, he studied abroad at the Lomonosov State University in Moscow and the Masaryk University in Brno.

From September to December 2024, he worked as a researcher in the department »Entanglements and Globalisation« at the GWZO, with funding from Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 1199. Since October 2025, Jan Wachter has been a scholarship holder of the Federal Foundation for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Germany pursuing his doctoral disseration in the department »Entanglements and Globalisation«. 

• History of the CMEA, in particular energy history
• Economic and fiscal policy, in particular climate and energy policy

• Research Grant, German Historical Institute Warsaw (2026)
• PhD scholarship holder of the Federal Foundation for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Germany (since 10/2025)
• Scholarship holder of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (2020–2024)
• Scholarship for the DAAD Go-East Winter School »Exploring Siberia 2020« (2020)
• DAAD Go-East Semester Scholarship (2019/20)
• Graduation award of the German Physical Society (2016)

• Teaching at Leipzig University in the Bachelor's degree programme in Economics B.Sc. (2020–2022)
• Teaching at Tuebingen University in the Bachelor's degree programme in International Economics B.Sc. (2018-2020)