Mentees 2021/22

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

    Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)

  4. Amelia Barber, PhD

    Research focuses:

    Microbiology | Genome Biology | Antibiotic Resistance | Microbial Ecology | Host-Pathogen Interactions

    Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans Knöll Institute (HKI), Jena

  5. 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

    Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology (LIN), Magdeburg

  6. Dr. Bettina Bruns

    Research focuses:

    Critical Military Studies | Frontiers | security | qualitative research methods | ethnography | East Central Europe

    Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL), Leipzig

  7. 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

  8. 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

    Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), Bremen

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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.

    INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Saarbrücken

  12. 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

    Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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

    Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans Knöll Institute (HKI), Jena

  18. 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

  19. Dr. Amanda Wendt

    Research focuses:

    Climate impacts on health and nutrition | Maternal and child nutrition | Micronutrient deficiencies | Mixed methods | Program evaluation

    Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)

  20. 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

    INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Saarbrücken

  21. Dr. Larissa Zierow

    Research focuses:

    Applied Econometrics | Economics of Education | Labour Economics | Inequality | Public Policy

    ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research, Munich