Mentees 2022/23
Dr. Hilal Alkan
Research focuses:
Care in the context of migration | Neighborhoods | Multispecies studies | Human-plant relations | Gender/ Ethnography | Turkey | Germany | Middle East
Dr. Mine Altinli
Research focuses:
Mosquito-virus interactions | Insect-specific viruses | Mosquito-borne viruses | Virus Evolution | Vector Ecology | Antiviral RNA interference response
Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM), Hamburg
Dr. Christine Anderl
Research focuses:
Social interaction and networking via digital media | Socio-economic decision-making | Leveraging digital technologies to study and promote well-being and health
DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education, Frankfurt am Main
Dr. Umilaela Arifin
Research focuses:
Amphibians and reptiles’ diversity of Asia, with special emphasizes on their phylogenetic systematics, evolution, and conservation
Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB), Bonn
Dr. Lisa Belkacemi
Research focuses:
Crystallography and crystal defects | Mechanisms and effects of atomic diffusion | Radiation damage in metallic structures | Hydrogen embrittlement | Phase transformations in alloys
Handan Melike Dönertaş, Ph.D.
Research focuses:
Computational biology | Machine Learning | Aging | Host-microbiome interactions
Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI), Jena
Dr. Theresa Entringer
Research focuses:
Personality traits | Personality change | Interaction between personality traits and social norms | Culture | loneliness | Mental Health
Dr. Gohar Ghazaryan
Research focuses:
Remote Sensing | Data fusion | Sustainable land management | Crop stress
Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg
Dr. Elisa-Maria Hiemer
Research focuses:
Eastern European Studies | Polish Literature | German-Polish Relations| Family Planning through a historical lens | City Transformations in Belarus, Ukraine and Poland
Dr. Lisa Höckel
Research focuses:
Applied Microeconomics | Migration Economics | Education Economics | Development Economics
Dr. Antje Jantsch
Research focuses:
Measuring the quality of life of rural populations with a focus on place attachment in Southeast Europe and East Germany | Empirical Microeconomics | Household Finances in Relation to Subjective Well-being | Social Comparisons
Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Halle
Dr. Sigrid Milles
Research focuses:
Single molecule fluorescence spectroscopy | Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy | Intrinsically disordered proteins | Protein dynamics | Clathrin mediated endocytosis
Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP), Berlin
Dr. Christin Naumann
Research focuses:
Nutrient perception in Arabidopsis thaliana roots | Local phosphate sensing | ER stress-mediated plant autophagy | Plant and protein biochemistry | Protein-protein interaction | Enzyme kinetics | Ferroxidases
Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology (BIPS), Halle
Prof. Hanna Pfeifer
Research focuses:
Islamist and jihadist actors in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) | State and non-state violence in the MENA region | Global and regional politics of order-making in the MENA region | Democratic and non-democratic foreign and security policy | Challenges and transformation of the liberal world order
Dr. Małgorzata Popiołek-Roßkamp
Research focuses:
History of Architecture and Urban Planning | Heritage Studies | Preservation of Historical Monuments | East-Central Europe | History of Transformation | Conversion of Former Military Areas
Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS), Erkner/Berlin
Dr. Jana Raupbach
Research focuses:
Effect of dietary Maillard reaction products on human cells and in mice | Uptake, transport and reactions of Maillard reaction products | Studies of pro- and anti-inflammatory signaling pathways | Instrumental analysis techniques and mass spectrometry
German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke (DIfE)
A.K.M. Skarpelis, Ph.D.
Research focuses:
Computer vision | Artificial intelligence | Facial recognition | Science and technology studies | State power | Race and ethnicity | Sociological theory | Cultural sociology | Comparative historical sociology
Dr. Stephanie Spahr
Research focuses:
Organic chemicals in the aquatic environment and the urban water cycle | Water treatment | Organic trace analysis | Impact of storm events on water quality | Sustainable stormwater management
Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin
Dr. Susanne Thürigen
Research focuses:
Scientific instruments and clocks | Gold- and silversmith’s art | Artistic knowledge | Art and nature | History of collecting
Sara Trujillo Muñoz, Ph.D.
Research focuses:
Engineering tissue mimics | Translational medicine | Cell microenvironments | Cell-material interactions | In vitro and in vivo models
Dr. Anna Ullrich
Research focuses:
German-Jewish history in the 20th century | History of the Holocaust | History of Emotions | Digital Humanities | European Project Coordination “European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI)”
Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ), München/Berlin
Dr. Sabine Undorf
Research focuses:
Climate and climate impact science for risk characterisation and adaptation | explaining observed and projecting future regional climate | impacts of extreme weather events and their attribution to anthropogenic climate change | climate impacts on agriculture and food security | anthropogenic aerosols as confounding factor and source of uncertainty in climate projections and attribution statements | use of climate-scientific results for decision-making and influence of societal values on climate science | climate and climate impact modelling, interdisciplinary research
Dr. Constance Vennin
Research focuses:
Stress resilience | Molecular biology | Epigenetics | Non-coding RNA | Stem cells | Brain development | Tumorigenesis
Dr. Ariani Wartenberg
Research focuses:
Biophysical and Socioeconomic Dimensions in Agroecosystems | Ecosystem Indicators| Land Use Change Impacts & Trade-offs | Natural Resource Use Equity | Agroforestry | Soil Science | Sustainability Narratives
Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg
Dr. Sibylle Wolf
Research focuses:
The processing of organic raw materials in the Palaeolithic | The role of women in the later Palaeolithic | Ice Age art | Social interactions in the Palaeolithic
Dr. Mingyun Yuan
Research focuses:
Acoustic control of elementary excitations | Surface acoustic wave devices | Quantum nanostructures in semiconductors | Quantum light sources and nanophotonics | Optomechanical interactions | Open quantum systems
Paul Drude Institute for Solid State Electronics (PDI), Berlin