Dr. Lena Guercke

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Change! Fellow and Research Group Leader

Since November 2025, Dr. Lene Guercke leads the transdisciplinary research project “Unmasking supply chains: leveraging digital human rights investigations for corporate accountability“. The project is a collaboration with the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) and funded by the Volkswagen Foundation’s Change! Fellowship.

Prior to joining FAU, Lene was a postdoctoral senior researcher for the Investigations Program at UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center, where she collaborated on several digital open source investigations. Her current research interests include corporate accountability, supply chains, open source investigations for human rights, and interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research.

Lene holds a PhD in Law from the University of Leuven (Belgium). Her doctoral thesis focused on state responsibility for disappearances committed by organised criminal groups and combined doctrinal legal research with qualitative empirical work.  The research was published in 2025 in the book series Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Rights.

Outside of academia, Lene has worked as independent human rights researcher and consultant and spent several years working in civil society organisations in Mexico.