Dr. Christiane Fröhlich is a lead research fellow at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) and Acting Professor of Political Science, esp. Transnational Politics, at Helmut-Schmidt University/University of the Federal Armed Forces, both in Hamburg, Germany.

Her research focuses on the intersection between forced migration, sustainable adaptation to global environmental change, and socio-political upheaval, and interlinkages between mobility control and state making.

At GIGA, she leads the research programme "Peace and Security". Her regional focus is mainly on the Middle East (Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel/Palestine, Turkey), where she has conducted extensive field research. She is also engaged in cross-regional comparative projects, including the DAAD-funded Climate Centre "Sustainable Adaptation to Global Change in the Middle East" (SAGE-Centre) and the EU-funded consortium "Migration Governance and Asylum Crises" (MAGYC).

Fröhlich holds a PhD from the Center for Conflict Studies at Philipps University Marburg and is the speaker of the German Network for Forced Migration Studies.