
Samuel Zewdie Hagos has been a research associate at the DeZIM Institute since August 2020. Samuel studied Humanitarian Action (MA) at the Ruhr University Bochum and the University of Warsaw. He also earned a master's degree in public health informatics. He is currently enrolled as a doctoral student at the Institute for Economic and Cultural Geography (research focus on forced migration, agency role of migrants) at the Leibniz University in Hanover.
Samuel worked in various positions in the areas of refugee protection and humanitarian emergency response before joining DeZIM as a research associate. Among other things, he worked at the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) as a Senior Field Associate and at the Danish Refugee Council as an Acting Area Manager on projects for internally displaced persons and refugees in Ethiopia. He also worked as Information Management Officer at the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) in Sierra Leone.