Claudia Derichs is a professor in the Department of Transregional Southeast Asian Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin. His areas of specialization are development policy, Southeast Asian and Middle East politics, Islamic politics and Gender studies. He studied Japanology, Arabic and Social Sciences at the Universities of Bonn, Tokyo and Cairo.

During his studies, he worked as a journalist. Claudia earned her PhD at the Free University Berlin and thereafter served as a researcher at the Universities of Potsdam and Duisburg. Claudia received many awards. She was nominated by the German Research Foundation as excellent women academics and accepted into the Internet portal of the Robert Bosch Foundation, received a teaching award at the University of Duisburg Essen in 2004 and was nominated for the Philip Morris research prize in 2004.

Among some of his works are;

• 2017, "Knowledge Production, Area Studies and Global Cooperation", diterbitkan Routledge.
•2014, "Women's Movement and Countermovement: The Quest for Gender Equality in Southeast Asia and the Middle East", diterbitkan Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
• 2010, "Diversity and Female Political Participation: Views on and from the Arab World", diterbitkan Heinrich-Boll-Stiftung.

The topic that will be shared in the Summer School 2022 event is

"On the Move: Religious Knowledge and Muslim Women's Virtual Mobility"