PD Dr. Anna Veronika Wendland (Uni Marburg / Herder-Institute) is a historian of Eastern Europe and technology with a focus on security studies. For her research projects on nuclear working environments and reactor safety in Eastern and Western Europe, she worked for several years as a long-term observer of human-machine relations in nuclear power plants in Eastern Europe and Germany. She is a frequent contact person for questions of nuclear safety in Ukraine in politics and the media.