Mentees 2021/22
Dr. Johanna Abel
Research focuses:
intermedial fictions in the Hispanic spiritual play of the early modern period | global interweaving lines of religious drama in the 16th/17th century | Body-text relations | Orientalisms in 19th and 20th century Hispanocaribbean literatures | material culture in Siglo de Oro Spain
Leibniz Centre for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL), Berlin
Dr. Mehwish Alam
Research focuses:
Knowledge Graphs | Semantic Web Technologies | Natural Language Processing | Machine Learning | Deep Learning | Data Science
FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure
Dr. Mehrnaz Anvari
Research focuses:
Stochastic processes and nonlinear dynamics | Data-driven model of renewable energies and load profile | Strong wind load induced cascading failures in power grids
Amelia Barber, PhD
Research focuses:
Microbiology | Genome Biology | Antibiotic Resistance | Microbial Ecology | Host-Pathogen Interactions
Dr. Sanja Bauer Mikulovic
Research focuses:
Cellular substrates of cognitive and emotional learning and memory | Memory-related input-output clusters of subcortical and hippocampal neurons | Mechanisms of social learning and memory
Dr. Bettina Bruns
Research focuses:
Critical Military Studies | Frontiers | security | qualitative research methods | ethnography | East Central Europe
Dr. Doris Düthmann
Research focuses:
Changes in area evaporation and their causes | Ecohydrological modelling | Hydrological change
Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin
Prof. Marie Fujitani
Research focuses:
Deliberative and participatory | Processes in natural resource | Management, science, and governance | Sustainable coastal livelihoods | Sustainability challenges in small island settings | Knowledge integration and transdisciplinary science
Dr. Mirjam Groger
Research focuses:
Clinical development of antimalarial treatments | Non-falciparum malaria | Clinical development of Lassa | Fever treatments | Clinical research in sub-Saharan Africa
Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM), Hamburg
Dr. Katharina Hopf
Research focuses:
Mathematical analysis of nonlinear partial differential equations | Strongly coupled parabolic systems, transport processes and reactions | Singularity formation in parabolic equations and singular limit analysis |Variational techniques in continuum mechanics | Complex systems arising in cell biology, complex flows
Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics (WIAS), Berlin
Dr. Gulistan Kocer
Research focuses:
Bioinspired cellular microenvironments using 3D synthetic hydrogels, cell behaviour in response to biophysical and biochemical cues presented in these materials | fundamental aspects of cellmaterial interactions, to increase our understanding in certain cellular processes, that are involved in disease progression or tissue regeneration | An in depth understanding of these processes will eventually enable us to design new biomaterials with increased biomimicry. Such biomimetic materials can serve as in vitro physiological models, for example, for high throughput screening of drugs or as tissue fillers and implants.
Dr. Katharina Lima de Miranda
Research focuses:
Impact of social interactions and behavioural responses of individual actors and groups on the emergence of global economic problems | Experimental and behavioural economics | Sustainable prosperity, Beyond GDP | Recoupling Dashboard
Dr. Rajini Nagrani
Research focuses:
Wide array of risk factors of cancers, with recent encounters in early risk factors for metabolic disorders | healthy ageing and child health by identifying molecular and environmental markers for various non-communicable diseases thus strengthening prevention
Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology (BIPS), Bremen
Dr. Katharina Platzbecker
Research focuses:
Clinical epidemiology with a focus on cardiovascular diseases, cancer and perioperative outcomes | Pharmacoepidemiology in vulnerable populations, such as pregnant women and cancer patients | Use of routine data for epidemiological research
Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology (BIPS), Bremen
Dr. Marie-Ann Sengewald
Research focuses:
Psychometrics | Causal Inference | Replication research | Methods of large-scale assessment | Development of competencies
Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi), Bamberg
Dr. Elen Tolstik
Research focuses:
Biomedical imaging: vibrational spectroscopy (Raman, CARS), high-resolution fluorescence microscopy | early detection and spectroscopic characterisation of the causes and course of heart diseases | holographic and diffractive optical elements
Leibniz-Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften – ISAS, Dortmund
Dr. Cláudia Vilhena
Research focuses:
single-cell behaviour of bacteria during escape from our immune system and trying to understand how bacteria are able to replicate without being targeted | interface between pathogen-host which is the cellular membrane, how it dynamically changes upon contact with danger and how bacteria coordinate intracellular machineries and the organization of their extracellular exposed proteins | inter-kingdom communication
Dr. Nadine Wagener-Böck
Research focuses:
Transformations of post-digital educational everyday life | Technologies and educational (in)justice | ethnographic research on educational media | nature-cultures, other-than-humans and everyday school practice
Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research (GEI), Braunschweig
Dr. Amanda Wendt
Research focuses:
Climate impacts on health and nutrition | Maternal and child nutrition | Micronutrient deficiencies | Mixed methods | Program evaluation
Xuan Zhang, PhD
Research focuses:
Design, characterization and mechanical behaviors of 3D mechanical metamaterials | 3D printing technique and development of photo-sensitive resin | reversible and switchable adhesives | nano-/micro-mechanical testing | finite element & molecular dynamic simulations
Dr. Larissa Zierow
Research focuses:
Applied Econometrics | Economics of Education | Labour Economics | Inequality | Public Policy
ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research, Munich