Rosa Schmidt-Drewniok works as assistant for the research project "Hochschulen als Akteure im Dialog mit China", financed by Stiftung Mercator.

She finished her B.A. in Wirtschaft und Politik Ostasiens at RUB and is now pursuing an M.A. in the International Political Economy of East Asia dregree program. 

Rosa Schmidt-Drewnioks lines of research are political economy in East Asia, the role of PRC in Asia, international relations between PR China, ROK and PR Korea as well as inter-Korean relations.