Cassandra Rosa Aşkın joined the team as a student assistant for the research project “Judicial Autonomy under Authoritarian Attack” and for the Chair of Comparative Political Science and the Political Systems of Eastern Europe at Humboldt University in September 2022. She successfully completed her law degree at Humboldt University in 2023 and holds a master's in European Union Law from Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas.