Jan Sändig is a postdoctoral researcher in Peace and Conflict Studies. He is coordinator of both the Conflicts.Meanings.Transitions research network and the Conflict, Crisis, and Change (C³) Research Center at the University of Bayreuth. Previously, he was a researcher within the INFRAGLOB project (2020–2025).

His research centers on social movements and contentious politics in Subsaharan Africa. Particularly, he has been studying resource and environmental conflicts, especially regarding large-scale investment projects in agriculture and mining. His recent work focuses on climate conflicts and activism for sustainable futures.

His research was published, among other journals, in World Development, Environmental Politics, The Extractive Industries and Society, Civil Wars, and the Journal of Global Security Studies.

After studying Political Science at Potsdam and Paris, he was researcher at the University of Tübingen for ten years and joined the University of Bayreuth in July 2020.

• Contentious politics and social movements
• Large-scale investment projects & "land grabbing"
• Violence and civil war
• West and Central Africa
• Transnational activism

Email: jan.saendig@uni-bayreuth.de