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Yaroslav Koshelev is a PhD candidate on the five-year research project “(Dis)Empowered Communities: A Comparative Study of Decommissioning Nuclear Sites,” which investigates the hidden costs and environmental implications of decommissioning nuclear power plants and facilities. His dissertation project explores the history of German nuclear host communities and their specific social dynamics, asking how some of them established consensual social arrangements with local nuclear facilities, while in other parts of Germany conflicts over nuclear power has prevailed since the 1970s, and how residents interpret their past during today’s decommissioning of nuclear power plants.
Previously he worked at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology on nuclear waste disposal, and contributed to an oral history project on uranium mining in East Germany at the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. This culminated in his MA thesis at the Technical University of Berlin, where he examined the narratives of Soviet specialists working for the uranium mining company Wismut.
Beyond his research, he used to worked as a caregiver for the elderly and is part of a photography collective, portraying people on the streets of Munich and his hometown Berlin. He also enjoys endurance sports such as running, and likes cooking for his friends and family.